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Common infections of the fingers and hand, whose enclosed spaces make even small infections painful and potentially serious.
Hand infections in tight spaces are painful and serious: paronychia (nail fold), felon (fingertip pulp, throbbing), and tendon sheath infection (swollen bent finger, agony on straightening); pus under pressure harms tendon and blood supply.
Burns
Tissue injury from heat, chemicals, electricity or radiation.
Approach to a Groin Lump
Working through the differential of a lump in the groin.
Approach to Leg Ulcers
Distinguishing the common causes of a chronic leg ulcer.
Giant Cell Tumour of Bone
A locally aggressive bone tumour of young adults, typically at the end of a long bone near a joint.
Osteoid Osteoma
A small, benign bone tumour of young people that causes a characteristic night pain relieved by simple pain-killers.
Skin Grafts and Flaps
Ways of covering a wound that cannot be closed directly, by moving skin from one place to another.