By Kristian Dye For this post, I have chosen to write about a Case Report that comes from the United Kingdom. It’s about a patient with a complex set of management challenges, however none of them are rare – and the United Kingdom is almost certainly one of the best places in the world to […]
Category: Editors choice
Comments from Dr Dean Jenkins on the Editor’s choice case report of the week.
Jogini Culture and HIV
By Manasi Jiwrajka The case report HIV in India: the Jogini Culture presents a case of a 32 year old Jogini from rural Andhra Pradesh who is HIV positive. ‘Jogini’, ‘Devadasi’ or ‘Mathamma’ are terms used to describe a girl committed to theogamy, or in other words, who is ‘married’ to a deity when she […]
Ramifications of poor medical education and screening in minority populations: an extensive acral melanoma
By Manasi Jiwrajka Ramifications of poor medical education and screening in minority populations: an extensive acral melanoma reports a case of a Samoan man with acral melanoma and explores the precipitating factors leading to the progression of a condition that may otherwise have been screened for and treated at a much earlier stage. This case is […]
Breast pain in a patient on dialysis
Calcific uremic arteriolopathy We have some very interesting images for you but, can you answer the questions below? 1. What are the indications for dialysis? 2. What are the complications of dialysis? 3. What is calcific uremic arteriopathy? If you don’t know the answers or want to know more read ’Breast pain in a patient […]
The Case of an ACL deficient knee
Anterior Drawer test in an ACL deficient knee We have some very interesting images for you but, can you answer the questions below? 1. What is the anterior draw test? 2. What do you see in these figures? 3. How else might the ACL be tested? If you don’t know the answers, want to see […]
A rare but potentially fatal cause of diarrhoea and weight loss
Enteropathy associated T-cell Lymphoma We have some very interesting images for you but, can you answer the questions below? 1. Diarrhoea can kill – under what circumstances may diarrhoea be fatal? 2. What types of enteropathy do you know? 3. How would you manage life-threatening diarrhoea due to a range of causes? 4. How would […]
Virchow-Robin spaces
Hydrocephalus due to extreme dilatation of Virchow-Robin spaces We have some very interesting images for you but, can you answer the questions below? 1. What are Virchow Robin spaces? 2. What do these images show? 3. How would you manage this hydrocephalus? If you don’t know the answers or want to know more read ’Hydrocephalus […]
A straight-forward stroke?
A typical presentation of type A aortic dissection We have some very interesting images for you but, can you answer the questions below? 1. How common is non-carotid disease stroke? 2. How would you routinely investigate a patient who presents with stroke? 3. Which patients benefit from anti-coagulation to prevent a first stroke? If you […]
Quiescent infective endocarditis in a patient with bronchopneumonia
Splenic abscess We have a very interesting image for you but, can you answer the questions below? 1. What would be your differential diagnosis in Figure 1? 2. What factors would determine whether you perform a splenectomy? 3. What is the latest evidence in terms of post-splenectomy sepsis? If you don’t know the answers or […]
A word from the Editor In Chief – 10,000+ cases!
What would you do if you woke up one morning and found that you could not stand, your legs simply won’t move. This was exactly what the patient in this, our 10 000th case at BMJ Case Reports, discovered. He presented to the Accident and Emergency Department with sudden bilateral lower limb paralysis and urinary […]