A 16-year-old, previously healthy girl was experiencing left-sided neck pain. She had no history of trauma or intravenous drug use, and there were no associated symptoms such as fevers, chills, cough or rigors. Initially, she attempted to manage her pain with simple pain medications. One week after onset, and experiencing ongoing pain, she presented to her general practitioner, who treated her ...

BACKGROUND Optimal applicator insertion is a precondition for the success of cervix cancer brachytherapy (BT). We aimed to assess feasibility and efficacy of MRI-assisted pre-planning, based on applicator insertion in para-cervical anaesthesia (PCA). PATIENTS AND METHODS Five days prior to BT, the pre-planning procedure was performed in 18 cervix cancer patients: tandem-ring applicator was in...

A 33 year old woman was admitted to the gynaecology ward in Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital with a four day history of abdominal pain and jaundice. She was 16 weeks pregnant in her third pregnancy. Both her previous pregnancies resulted in live, healthy children. Her health passport showed that she had been diagnosed HIV positive in 2008 during antenatal testing, although neither the patient n...

BACKGROUND Endometriosis is a chronic benign gynecologic disease that can cause pelvic pain and infertility affecting almost 10% of reproductive-age women. Deeply infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) is a specific entity responsible for painful symptoms which are related to the anatomic location of the lesions. Definitive diagnosis requires surgery, and histological confirmation is advisable. The a...