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What’s Your Diagnosis?: CASE 1

Case: A 40–year-old woman referred to the dermatological clinic of Razi hospital with painful lesions on the axillae, between her breasts and intergluteal region since adolescence. The patient had been treated with a variety of antibiotics with only minimal improvement. The lesions reappeared with cessation of treatments. On cutaneous examination, multiple furuncle-like discharging nodules were...

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Rapid Survey of Wasting and Stunting in Children: Whats New, Whats Old and Whats the Buzz?

Nationwide Rapid Survey on Children (RSoC), conducted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development and UNICEF in 2013-14 showed a marked improvement in the status of the child malnutrition over the third National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) that was conducted in 2005-06. Despite some impressive gains in the anthropometric indicators of malnutrition, the absolute levels remain high, and of c...

Which is your diagnosis?

http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0100-3984.2015.48.1qd ence of an expansile occlusive luminal lesion in the ascending colon. The patient was referred for radiological staging and submitted to contrast-enhanced abdominal computed tomography (Figure 1). Dr. Alexandre Dias Mançano. Centro Médico Hospitalar Anchieta. AE 8/10 Setor C Norte, 1o subsolo, Centro de Excelência Anchieta, lojas 12 e 13. Taguatin...

What’s Your Abdominal Diagnosis?

Interpretation of radiographs can be challenging. Many factors are involved, but these steps all relate to one central idea ... be systematic. It begins with production of good quality radiographs, moves to detection of radiographic abnormalities, coalesces into creation of differential diagnoses and a radiographic diagnosis and concludes with a plan for achieving a definitive diagnosis. Making...