This is something that once I found out about it I started diagnosing it with great enthusiasm, sometimes beyond what the patients presentation could really support. We see lots of patients with MSK pain, pain here, pain there, pain everywhere. We … Read More »
This is based on Mark Wilson’s paper in the Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism [Free full text] which i’m sure you all read avidly every month. COI – I know Mark and had the honour being in the same … Read More »
From this lovely review and update paper in Lancet Resp Med. Found this via Josef Liebman’s EMU. One of the slightly more obscure FOAMed resources but he always seems to pluck out some papers i’d never find on my own. … Read More »
This can definitely be filed under the rare and obscure portion of EM. But i’ve seen it twice in 12 years, and was baffled both times so there you go… known as hyatid disease (definitely easier to spell) or … Read More »
There was an article in the Abstracts recently by Djukic in 2015 that looked at how often you can find a potentially reversible cause of dementia. Billy Mallon wrote a nice essay on it. We reviewed the paper over on the … Read More »