Diagnostic Quiz

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 patient aged 43 years old consulted me for weakness in the left side of his face. He lost his symmetrical smile, the corner of his mouth was drawn to the affected side and also unable to pucker his lips. While chewing the food collected on one side. His eyes was tearing and unable to close

Which one of the following is the most likely diagnosis?

1. Trigeminal Neuralgia

2. Bells Palsy

3. Hemiplegia

- Dr. P.Mukundan, Salem

2. Anamnesis

		A teacher aged 30 years consulted me for loss of voice and recurrent sore throat with a feeling of constriction in her throat. She is very talkative and suspicious and fastidious. She had been treated for infections and finally the laryngoscopy revealed a vocal cord nodule in right side.
Before

I prescribed a medicine and it was repeated every month. After few months she gained her voice She underwent another review, where the laryngoscopy revealed normal study Can you guess the similimum, which has cured his complaint?
		After

Dr.R.Gnanasambandam , Chennai

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Last Date : 15.10.2005

WINNER

Dr.K.Devi, Karur has won Homoeo Times September 2005 Diagnostic Quiz. She is awarded a Stethoscope and an excellence certificate. She has been selected as lucky winner out of Thirty five correct answers and total entries were forty-three.

ANSWERS for September-2005

1. Visual quiz - Tinea Versicolar
2. Anamnesis - Petroleum

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