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Causes of Iron Deficiency
 • Inadequate Intake: Vegetarian/vegan diet, Malnutrition
 • Increased Body Needs: Infants/preschoolers, Pregnancy,
Causes of Iron Deficiency ... Pregnancy, EPO treatment ... without anaemia): GI cancers ... Disease (IBD, cancer ... differential #diagnosis #causes
Pancreatic Cyst Diagnosis on Endoscopic Ultrasound EUS
Features of low cancer risk: No symptoms caused by the
on Endoscopic Ultrasound ... Features of low cancer ... risk: No symptoms caused ... Features of high cancer ... risk: Symptoms caused
A quick infographic on the importance of sun protection and the various results of sun damage
#wavelengths #causes ... Skin Cancer. ... cancer. ... Mechanisms and treatments ... integrative-approach-to-skin-cancer-and-sun-protection
Treatment of breast cancer: a simplified view
surgical therapy - 5-7 weeks
 - lumpectomy +
 - radiation
Treatment of breast ... cancer: a simplified ... adjuvant (in select cases ... BrighamChiefs #breast #cancer ... #treatment #management
Fever vs Hyperthermia
Fever:
 • Regulated in the hypothalamic thermoregulatory center
 • "Set point" raised by prostaglandin
thermoregulatory center ... production • Treatment ... rapidly fatal • Causes ... Identify underlying cause ... loss from the skin
Causes of Urinary Tract Obstruction - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Upper Tract - Bladder NOT distended on ultrasound,
Causes of Urinary ... NOT distended on ultrasound ... Fibrosis • Cancer ... • Prostate cancer ... Diagnosis #Algorithm #Causes
Cardiac Tamponade - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Caused by an accumulation of blood, pus, effusion fluid
• Call for ultrasound ... thoracotomy is a better treatment ... re-assess using ultrasound ... drape overlying skin ... • Ideally use ultrasound
Sweet Syndrome

Acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis (Sweets Syndrome) is a skin condition characterized by fever and inflamed
Causes: - Idiopathic ... - Underlying cancer ... - Hematologic cancer ... of leukemia - Cancers ... Treatment: - Systemic
Genital Skin Ulcers - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Painful:
 • Herpes simplex
 • Haemophilus ducreyi (chancroid)
 • Behcet's
Genital Skin Ulcers ... Primary syphilis (chancre ... Diagnosis #Algorithm #causes
Causes of Chronic Kidney Disease - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Decreased kidney function (eGFR < 60 ml/min/1.73 m2)
Causes of Chronic ... Constipation • Prostate cancer ... Family history, ultrasound ... Sterile pyuria, WBC casts ... Diagnosis #Algorithm #Causes