Article Types
Medical education
Acute lymphangitis
A 7-year-old girl presented to the emergency department with fever and right forearm redness
Yu‐Lin Tai · Chien‐Yu Lin
Preparing Australasian medical students for environmentally sustainable health care
Medical educators and representatives of medical student associations in Australia and New Zealand are collaborating on an initiative on climate change and health in medical education
Diana L Madden · Graeme L Horton · Michelle McLean
An atypical case of Charles Bonnet syndrome secondary to advanced cataracts
A 73-year-old woman presented to her GP with visual hallucinations
Harry Birrell · Kong‐Chan Tang
Dust‐related diffuse fibrosis in a coal mine worker from New South Wales
A 77-year-old never-smoker presented with an abnormal screening chest x- ray
Clare Wood · Elizabeth J Silverstone · Deborah H Yates
Endogenous bacterial endophthalmitis: a case of infective endocarditis following a dental procedure
A 21-year-old white man presented with a 3-day history of central blurry vision in his right eye in the context of 3 weeks of right frontotemporal headaches and earaches, fevers, and drenching night sweats
Peter ZX Cui · Elaine Chong · Thomas G Campbell
Peripheral nerve entrapment: how to diagnose and when to refer
Peripheral nerve entrapment (entrapment neuropathy) can affect any peripheral nerve in the body
Gavin A Davis · Timothy J Day
Approach to the telemedicine physical examination: partnering with patients
Medical providers who learn physical examination techniques early in medical training can spend years honing the craft of observation, palpation and auscultation
Stephen W Russell · Maja K Artandi
COVID‐19 mRNA vaccine (Comirnaty)‐induced myocarditis
COVID-19 mRNA vaccine-related myocarditis is an extremely rare and mild complication, and is much less frequent than myocarditis secondary to COVID-19 infection
Joshua Wong · Sameer Sharma · Jessica V Yao · Anuradha Aggarwal · Leeanne Grigg
Cryptogenic neuropsychiatric presentations diagnostic delay in Cryptococcus gattii meningoencephalitis at a regional Australian tertiary hospital
A 70-year-old man was admitted for investigation of confusion, agitation and falls
Andrew P Gador‐Whyte · Jared Harris · Karen Gunanayagam · Aaron Walton · Andrew Hughes · Eugene Athan
Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus in western New South Wales
A 51-year-old man presented with a 24- hour history of headache, neck stiffness, photophobia and lower abdominal rash
Rhiannon L Holdsworth · Elizabeth Downie · Matthew J Georgiades · Ross Bradbury · Julian Druce · James Collett
Vision loss and methamphetamine use
A 57-year-old man presented with a 2-day history of painless vision loss in his left eye
Yi Fan Tang · Elaine Chong
Functional hypothalamic amenorrhoea: a diagnosis of exclusion
Functional hypothalamic amenorrhoea is common but often misdiagnosed, risking inappropriate management and compromised patient education and counselling
Elisabeth Ng · Shoshana Sztal‐Mazer · Susan R Davis
Infective discitis with concurrent calcific discitis masquerading as renal colic
A 76-year-old man with a history of ureteric nephrolithiasis presented with dysuria and sharp, severe right flank pain with radiation to the inguinal region
Roland Z White · Hemant Vanmali · Matthew Sampson
A massive pulmonary arteriovenous malformation with platypnoea–orthodeoxia: an important and reversible cause of refractory hypoxaemia
An 82-year-old woman presented to hospital with worsening chronic dyspnoea without fever or other specific symptoms
Michael Toolis
Pill aspiration: an under‐recognised clinical entity
An 85-year-old man with a history of type 2 diabetes, vascular disease and chronic kidney disease awoke with central sharp pleuritic pain radiating through to his back
Elliot T Bowden · Paul Smith · Karen M Dwyer
Poppy seed tea dependence requiring depot buprenorphine treatment
A 34-year-old man presented seeking treatment for opioid use disorder in Melbourne
Shalini Arunogiri · Rowan Dowling · Vicky Phan · Michelle Sharkey · Temika Mu · Dan I Lubman
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy: a complication of prolonged immunosuppression for plasma cell myeloma
A 66-year-old man presented to a tertiary emergency department following a fall
Sophie C Burn · Akash Kalro
Angiosarcoma presenting as unexplainable unilateral leg pain and purpuric toes
An older man presented with increasing pain the in right leg over 3 months, with no relief after femoral artery stenting
Genevieve Ho · Dedee F Murrell
Violaceous skin lesions on a returned traveller
A 34-year-old Australian man, with no relevant past medical history, presented with 4 weeks of progressive, nodular skin lesions on his non-dominant hand and arm
David WJ Griffin · Jenny SJ Wong · Orla Morrissey · Cristina Mateevici
Mucormycosis: early treatment is the key to survival
A 67-year-old man presented to his rural GP with left facial pain
Timothy R Holmes · Jenny L Hepschke · Ian Jacobson · Anthony Maloof
Eczema coxsackium
A 6-month-old female infant with atopic dermatitis presented with multiple erythematous papules and vesicles with crusts on the perioral area, trunk and extremities
Hsing‐Jou Su · Chun‐Bing Chen
Paediatric dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans: a neglected scar‐like plaque in a child
An 11-year-old girl presented with a solitary, non-tender, erythematous, indurated plaque resembling keloid slowly growing on her left upper chest for 5 years
Yi‐Teng Hung · Jennifer Wu · Chun‐Yu Cheng
Erythema ab igne
A 77-year-old woman presented with a 5-month history of an asymptomatic rash affecting her lower abdomen and proximal thighs
Emily K Kozera · Deshan F Sebaratnam
A non‐healing ulcer: amelanotic melanoma
A 73-year-old woman presented with a 7-month history of a non- healing ulcer on her left hallux
Michelle KY Chen · Deshan Frank Sebaratnam
Congenital syphilis on the rise: the importance of testing and recognition
A 3-month-old boy was admitted with clinical sepsis, hepatosplenomegaly, severe anaemia, transaminitis, high lactate, and coagulopathy
Mandy X Wu · Aoife Moore · Mandy Seel · Sumi Britton · Judith Dean · Janet Sharpe · Garry Inglis · Clare B Nourse