Everything published so far. Cases that include clinical imagery are marked, and the images stay hidden until you open them.
Grade 4 frostbite, treatment 66 hours late, and he lost half of two toes.
Hair cannot be digested and cannot be pushed along, so it stays and builds for a year in silence.
Her IV antifungals were not working. The answer was to stop relying on the bloodstream entirely.
He was taking lamotrigine. Much of the risk with that drug is in how fast the dose goes up.
The veins of the face have no valves. Nothing stops infection travelling the wrong way.
She reached a hospital the same day. The one injection that would have prevented it was never given.
Caput medusae is the visible detour. The one that kills is in the oesophagus.
About a centimetre comes off each surface. The rest of the operation follows from that.
A net-shaped rash, collapsing neutrophils, and antibodies pointing two ways at once.
Reconstruction restores structure. A face is not structure. What the transplant cost him came seven years later.
Six hours of viability, and a decision about whether to reattach a limb the patient removed himself.
Over 95% survive when it is found early, around 40% when it is not. The tumour is the same.
A second head with eyes and lips, and no circulation of its own. Waiting would have made her weaker, not safer.
Minor cuts to the jaw, no treatment available, and fifteen years for a scar to become a disability.
Wood reads as air on a scan. The clue that overturned the report was an infection that would not settle.
Three hours after the bite his blood could no longer clot. A normal ultrasound is what kept him out of theatre.
No nail, no hammer. A blind operation inside a conscious man's bladder, and the first minimally invasive surgery.
Ten months without a surgeon turned a survivable burn into a disfigurement that took twelve operations to reverse.