Slowly Progressive Elbow Swelling

Acute Onset of Elbow Swelling.

A 50-year-old man presented with swelling in his right elbow that began 10 days earlier. He had no history of injury to the arm, but he often rested his elbows on his desk at work. The elbow was not painful, and there was no arthralgia. He did not have a fever. His medical history was significant for chronic glomerulonephritis. He had been on hemodialysis for one year. Physical examination reve...

Progressive elbow pain.

Slowly progressive cranial nerve palsies.

MJA • Volume 184 Number 12 • 19 June 2006 he ca wo T incidence of non-melanotic head and neck skin ncers in Queensland is among the highest in the rld. Perineural spread (PNS) from these lesions involves either small nerves, identified at pathological examination (incidental), or large nerves, presenting clinically as cranial nerve palsies. Basal cell carcinoma is the more common skin cancer, b...

Unusual Olecranon Swelling – Epidermoid Cyst of Elbow

Epidermoid cysts are relatively common entities, but we present a large cyst which occurred almost directly over the olecranon, a previously unreported location. The 31 year old male patient had a history of previous epidermoid cysts in the head/ neck and after en block excision there has been no recurrence at 4 years.

Slowly progressive apraxia in Alzheimer's disease.

Slowly progressive apraxia due to Alzheimer's disease was encountered in a 66 year old, right handed man whose initial impairments included coordinated movements of the left hand and some features of the alien hand syndrome. Over four years, the patient developed progressively worsening deficits of memory and language. A biopsy of his right temporal lobe showed numerous plaques and neurofibrill...