Spot Diagnosis

A baby boy born to apparently healthy parents had a bright red rash over his face within 2 hours after birth...

A 36 year old smoker was referred to a chest clinic following an employment medical. He had restrictive spirometry and a subsequent chest radiograph...

A 19-year-old man presented to the dermatology clinic with a 3-month history of an enlarging ulcer on his right hand and multiple tender subcutaneous nodules on the right forearm and elbow...

This 35-year-old lady in the 24th week of gestation presented with a 2 day history of pleuritic chest pain and dyspnoea...

A 29-year-old man presented to the dermatology clinic with a pruritic, erythematous, and scaly rash that had first appeared 2 years earlier...

A 25 year old male, who was being investigated for a possible soft tissue tumour of the left buttock, developed symptoms of right sided pleuritic chest pain..

A 64-year-old man from Mauritania was referred for evaluation of a painless multinodular tumor of the left foot. Foot lesions had been present for 38 years...

A 62-year-old female patient was admitted with a 4 week history of general malaise, left sided back pain, increasing dyspnoea and cough productive of purulent sputum...

A 53-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a 1-month history of relapsing fevers, dyspnea, and rapidly progressive skin lesions..

A 41 year old gentleman known to have bronchiectasis presents with 4 day history of cough with purulent sputum, shortness of breath and haemoptysis.