Finger Swelling and Discharge

Recurrent finger swelling

A 56 year old female presented to her primary care physician with a painless finger mass. She first noticed the mass about 7 years ago and it had been growing slowly since that time. Her former primary care physician had removed the mass about 5 years prior. She recalled being told at that time that it was a “ganglion cyst.” The mass had since returned and grown back to its former size. It was ...

An unusual cause of finger swelling.

Fester A, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-221038 Description A 7-year-old South Asian boy was evaluated in a district general child assessment unit following a 4-week history of daily fevers with associated pain and swelling in the thumb and middle finger phalanges of the right hand. There was no history of cough, weight loss, night sweats or trauma. On examination, he appeared w...

An unusual case of finger swelling: A case report

A 66 year old man initially presented with haemoptysis and subsequently required a pneumonectomy for a lung mass, following this he had a finger swelling which was found to be a rare leiomyosarcoma and this was a metastatic deposit. This pattern of metastasis for this type of tumour has not been described before.

Disseminated tuberculosis presenting with finger swelling and skin ulcer: a case report.

Dear Editors, Tuberculosis remains a major public health problem causing significant morbidity and mortality in individuals worldwide. Extrapulmonary tuberculosis has become an increasingly important issue, particularly among immune-compromised patients (1). According to the National Tuberculosis Surveillance System, in the USA, the prevalence of extrapulmonary tuberculosis was reported to incr...

Reproducibility after de-swelling and re-swelling