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Diagnostic Quiz
   
     This column is intended to motivate practitioners for better diagnosis and anamnesis in case taking. There are two parts, one on imaging techniques and the other on cracking a case. E-mail or post your answers to us. If your answer matches with that of the expert panel you will be awarded a stethoscope. In case of more than one correct answer a lucky draw shall be held.
1. Visual Quiz

    A 23 year old boy presented swelling in the forearm, thighs and abdomen since five years. The small swellings were noticed while taking bath and found soft, mobile and painless. His paternal grand father had the similar problem


       
Which one of the following is the most likely Diagnosis?


1. Neurofibroma

2. Lipoma

3. Sebaceous cyst

 

- Dr. P.Mukundan, Salem

2. Anamnesis
   

    A 35 year old, marketing executive consulted me for his irritable bowel syndrome, suffering since five years. He presented his complaints obstinate constipation with mucus stool, which adheres with jelly like lumps sometimes. He had tenesmus and rumbling during and after stool. He had very offensive flatus which was very nuisance to his profession and runs to toilet, when passes it thinking that stool would come. He had itching and burning after passing flatus, worse at night. He also had haemorrhoids 10 years before, cured with some homoeopathic medication. He is fleshy with medium complexion, irritable when constipated, perspires more and exhausted even after little exertion or work. A similimum prescribed on this totality cured the patient with in three months

Can you guess the similimum, which has cured his complaint?

Dr.R.Gnanasambandam , Chennai
 
Send your answers
 

Dignostic Quiz
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WINNER

Dr. Smita M Betgeri Belgaum has won Homoeo Times November-2005 Diagnostic Quiz. She is awarded with a Stethoscope and an excellence certificate. She has been selected as lucky winner out of forty six correct answers and total entries were fifty-five.

 ANSWERS for November-2005

1. Visual quiz -  Koplik's spots
2. Anamnesis -  Kali Bichromicum

Correct Answers received from

  1. Dr.Niranjan Sahoo                 Jharkhand
  2. Dr.P.Victor Dass                    Erode
  3. Dr.A.Abdul Aziz                     Chennai
  4. Dr.Smita M Betgeri                Belgaum
  5. Dr.Wasina M Mulla                 Belgaum
  6. Dr.E.Gnanadesigan                Gudiyatham
  7. Dr.V.S.Mohan Babu                Mookkannur
  8. Dr.Niranjan Sahoo                 Jamshedpur
  9. Dr.Mitul Mishra                      Jabalpur
  10. Dr.Ved Prakash Singh            Kanpur
  11. Dr. Bhushan S Jain                Jalgaon
  12. Dr.S.N.Thulasee Dharan        Palkamamthilli
  13. Dr. D.Sridharan                    Madurai
  14. Dr.Kavitha Vinod                  Bangalore
  15. Dr. K.P.Asokan                     Vadakara
  16. Dr.Selina Rajathi                   Tuticorin
  17. Dr.M.L.Eswara                       Byrapura
  18. Dr.J.Ashok                            Salem
  19. Dr.Ganapathy S Kumaran       Tuticorin
  20. Dr.L.Kannan                          Chennai
  21. Dr.Murali Mohan                     Tumkur
  22. Dr.S.Saji                               Palakkad
  23. Dr.V.Sudalavenya                  Villupuram
  24. Dr.Madhusudan                      Dewas
  25. Dr.N.Kavitha                          Raichur
  26. Dr K.Raju                              Manakadu
  27. Dr.S.Prasanth                        Ernakulam
  28. Dr k.Sathish Kumar                Vallalar Nagar
  29. Dr Renuka Taneja                  New Delhi
  30. Dr. K.P Tejasvi                      Davangere
  31. Dr.K.Devi                              Karur
  32. Dr.N.M.Badhusha                   Tuticorin
  33. Dr.Shenbaga                         Madurai
  34. Dr. Revan B L                        Bangalore
  35. Dr. M.K.Harish                       Kannur
  36. Dr.S.B.N.DAS                       Calicut
  37. Dr. Neeraj Gupta                  New Delhi
  38. Dr.AbhaGupta,                     New Delhi
  39. Dr. Patel Ravikumar             Chhaganbhai
  40. Dr.Rekha Chandran              Trivandrum
  41. Dr.O.V.Ramana                    Guntur
  42. Dr Nadeem M Ahmad            Ghazipur
  43. Dr.Subir Basu                       Pune
  44. Dr.Sanju                              Kaithal
  45. Dr Ragulji                             Trichy
  46. Dr J. D Anjaneyalu                 Chinnaganjam