Tag: foreign body
Foreign bodies in genitalia – Time for POCUS!
How’s that for a title! Books, lectures and plenty of other resources on foreign bodies would not be complete without at least one eye-catching image of a foreign body in an orifice where it clearly does not belong :). And there is often a bizarre story to go along with it. Admit it! Everyone has […]
Dr. Richard on Armpits, Metal Rods, Pus, and T-shirts
Here’s a neat case from Dr Bernard Richard from Valleyfield in la belle province… A 30 y.o. man fell on a metal rod a week ago. He was seen in the ED and had his 10 cm right axillary wound sutured. I saw him a week later for 4 cm lump that was located 15 […]
Glass FB in Palm
This guy got a glass FB in his hand a couple of weeks earlier. You could sort of imagine a little bump and a little mark. POCUS clearly showed it ~ 1 mm deep. I made an X and (luckily) fished it out. I took a lousy picture with my obsolete Palm Treo showing the […]
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