Now one might ask: What does the most beautiful Christmas cookie with medical relevance actually look like? Does an entire dough skeleton fit in the oven? And what ingredients is such a cookie made of for Santa Claus, M.D.? With the BerlinCaseViewer the matter was clear: Under the banner of biscuitology, we would bake sacroiliitis, syndesmophytes and the like.
With the “Ankle & Foot” module, doctors have the opportunity to sharpen their eye for the different conditions. On the basis of twelve cases, Professor Iris Eshed from Israel introduces the systematics of these diseases and shows how they can be differentiated from one another. In the course of this, osteoarthritis and other forms of arthritis are compared, whereby rheumatic disease in particular is often difficult to recognize in practice. Tumors are added to the range of differential diagnoses.
The heart and lungs work as a team to keep us alive. In the second issue of Case of the Month, we focus on these two organs. The new radiology module “Cardio / Pulmo” is all about cardiac and pulmonary diseases.
The ASAS Online Case Library provides you with realistic cases to study axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA). The web-based tool allows you to work on cases directly in your browser.
The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 currently presents medical professionals in many countries with an unprecedented challenge. It can lead to pneumonia in a considerable proportion of cases with a serious clinical course or even death in some cases. Many questions have arisen, of which not nearly all can be answered at the time. Some are: What […]