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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. Radiological Quiz  
WINNER
     
  Dr.S.Prasanth,Ernakulam,Kerala -683 104, has won the Homoeo Times April 2004 Diagnostic quiz. He is awarded with a stethoscope and an appreciation certificate.

      A twenty-two years old girl complans unwanted hair growth over chin, upper lips, chest and limbs with irregularity in periods. Her Blood parameters for thyroid, insulin are normal, but moderate elevation in serum testosterone level as 120ng/ 100ml. Her ultra sonogram of pelvis shows these findings.

What is your impression?

 
- Dr. Mukundan, Salem
   

 
Last Date : 15.05.2004
2. Anamnesis    
   

     A married lady aged thirty eight years, the mother of several children, had suffered since childhood from dyspnoea, increased by any active exertion, by going up or down-stairs, by exposure to cold, and eating very warm food. Pain in the left lumbar region of the abdomen (also from childhood). Within the last year, constant burning in the stomach and throat, with a sensation of dryness in the latter, as also of a lump in the pit of the throat, which impeded respiration and deglutition. Weakness and oppression in the epigastrium, with other symptoms of gastric derangement. Urine of a deep red, depositing a copious red sediment.

What is your similimum?

- Dr. S. Mohamed Aleem, Chennai
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 ANSWERS For April 04    


 1. Radiological Impression  
- Crohn's Disease

 2. Anamnesis                        - Mancinella