Toddler with a sore forefinger

Cycling with a toddler.

A toddler with prolonged fever.

A toddler with a pharyngeal foreign body.

Foreign bodies of the upper aerodigestive tract often present as medical emergencies—particularly in view of the possibility of a compromised airway. Knowledge of pharyngeal anatomy and associated structures is essential to dealing effectively with the removal of a foreign body. In the pediatric patient, parental anxiety and lack of patient cooperation are additional factors that the emergency ...

A sore throat with a difference.

British Journal of Venereal Diseases SIR-Infectious mononucleosis commonly occurs in young people (Pollock, 1969) but curiously it is rarely diagnosed together with gonorrhoea in the same individual. Recently such a case was seen with a number of interesting features. A 24-year-old white male presented on April 8, 1975, complaining of swelling of the cervical lymph nodes for 2 days and feeling ...

A sore red eye with systemic involvement.

A 20 year old man was referred to the eye clinic by his general practitioner with a four week history of a sore red left eye (fig 1). Treatment for conjunctivitis had not resulted in improvement, and he reported that his eye was increasingly painful. He had experienced repeated nose bleeds over the past three months, together with constant left sided nasal stuffiness. He had recently felt gener...