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A 43-year-old man presents with su.dden right arm and leg weakness. He is normotensive. CT demonstrates a substantial haematoma in the left frontoparietal region. What is the most likely diagnosis of this patient?
A 48-year-old perimenopausal woman presents with a 2-month history of a painful lump in her right breast. On examination you find a 2.5 cm tense, fluctuant, mobile lump in the outer lower quadrant of the right breast. The most appropriate next course of action is?
the most likely diagnosis?
A patient is intubated on ITU 48 hours after sustaining a severe TBI. Urine output has been 800 mL over 3 hours and the serum sodium level is 151 mEq/L. What is the most likely diagnosis of this patient?
A patient sustains a flexion distraction injury at the thoracolumbar junction following a highspeed road-traffic accident where he was wearing a seat belt. What is the most likely diagnosis of this patient?
A 62-year-old gentleman taking warfarin for atrial fibrillation presents with a two-week history of headaches and clumsiness of the dominant hand. He cannot recall any impact to the head. What is the most likely diagnosis of this patient?
A 32-year-old woman twists her right ankle, sustaining an isolated Weber B undisplaced lateral malleolus fracture with no displacement of the ankle mortice. What is the best next step in management of this patient?
You are told that a 45-year-old woman, who presented to the vascular surgery clinic, has a positive tourniquet test in the left leg. On the basis of the information conveyed to you, choose the most likely diagnosis that is associated with a positive tourniquet test?
A patient presents having fallen on his head from a height. The C4 vertebra is fractured and expanded. What is the most likely diagnosis of this patient?
A 20-year-old footballer is involved in a heavy tackle where another player impacts with outside of his knee. He feels pain over the inner aspect of his knee, and he has a positive valgus stress test but with a firm end point. What is the most likely diagnosis?
A patient who underwent an oesophagectomy in an attempt to cure stage 1 cancer becomes confused 4 days postoperatively and pulls out his nasogastric tube. What is the best course of action?
A 23-year-old long-distance runner spontaneously develops a pain over the head of her second metatarsal. Radiographs reveal an undisplaced fracture across the neck of the second metatarsal. What is the most likely diagnosis?
A 78-year-old man complains of gnawing backache associated with urinary frequency and poor stream for 4 months. Transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) biopsy showed a carcinoma of prostate. What should be the first investigation?
A 23-year-old female medical student presents with a 1 cm x 1 cm round swelling in the anterior triangle of the neck. It is smooth and fluctuant with no transillumination or movement on swallowing. The skin is freely mobile over the lump, which is also non-tender to touch. Aspiration of the lump reveals cholesterol crystals. The most likely diagnosis is?
A man presents after a game of squash with pain in the back of the calf and heel that was of sudden onset and difficulty weight bearing. On calf-squeeze test, the ankle does not dorsiflexion. What is the best next step in management of this patient?
best statement egarding perioperative management consideration?
: La présence de bandes claires au niveau des fibrilles élémentaires de collagène est due à la présence d'intervalles libres entre les molécules unitaires de collagène qui laissent diffuser plus facilement les électrons.
A 32-year-old man while skiing sustained an injury to this right ankle following which it became very painful and grossly deformed. What should be the first investigation?
: Au cours de la croissance interstitielle, les cellules cartilagineuses élaborent les constituants de la matrice avant de se diviser.
A 28-year-old man while working on a building site sustained a fracture of his tibia and fibula having fallen from a ladder. This was promptly treated by open reduction and internal fixation. On the second postoperative day, he developed severe pain in his leg exacerbated by passive movement and sensory loss. What is the diagnosis of this patient?