a middle age addicted man with caustic stomach

A middle age addicted man with caustic stomach

Background: The term caustic generally refers to alkaline and the term corrosive generally refers to acidic agents' injury however, in medical literature caustic is frequently a term applied to both substances. Ingested alkali typically damage the esophagus more than stomach or duodenum, whereas acids usually cause more severe gastric injury. Since esophagus has a slightly alkaline pH, its epit...

Middle aged man with groin pain.

McArdle syndrome with recurrent rhabdomyolysis in a middle aged man.

A 44-year old male estate labourer presented with severe muscle pains and passing dark urine of two days duration. Six hours prior to the onset of symptoms, he sustained a fall from height of about six feet. The muscle pains progressively worsened over the next two days and he was almost immobilised due to severe generalised muscle pain by the second day of the illness. On the same day, he noti...

A middle-aged man with scrotal and perineal pain.

A 53-year-old man, with a history of metastatic lung cancer treated with chemotherapy, presented with a high fever and in poor general condition in September 2008. He was found after slipping and falling in a toilet and was therefore admitted to hospital. He appeared to be suffering acute sepsis and a physical examination revealed tenderness over his scrotum and perianal region. An X-ray of his...

Analysis of a Man-in-the-Middle Experiment with Wireshark

With the rapid growth of the Internet user population and the magnitude of the applications depending on the Internet these days, network security measures are becoming extremely important. For the Internet users, one of the best defenses against network attacks is to understand the patterns of the attacks and raise the awareness of abnormality as much as possible. In this paper, an experiment ...

A middle-aged man with generalised weakness and dyspnoea

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