This article describes common changes that may occur in pigmented lesions in pregnancy, features that are of concern and the management of suspected melanoma in pregnant women.
The aim of this article is to provide GPs with a review of the current literature, summarise a diagnostic pathway and propose a treatment algorithm for median arcuate ligament syndrome.
The broad and often subtle presentation of coeliac disease makes detection subtle, and 80% of Australians with this disease remain undiagnosed.
This article discusses shave procedures and their role in diagnosing an array of benign, inflammatory and malignant skin conditions.
Parotitis, inflammation of the parotid glands, is a clinically significant presentation with a wide range of aetiologies that can result in systemically unwell patients.
The purpose of this study was to develop a clinical prediction rule based on identified risk factors for surgical site infection in a large general practice patient cohort.
Pilomatrixoma is a rare benign appendageal tumour that can be easily mistaken for more frequent subcutaneous nodules because of some similar features.
Supporting the patient in coping with the long-term nature of granulomatous lobular mastitis and the chronic discharging lesions is essential.
These questions are based on the Focus articles in this issue. Please choose the single best answer for each question.
Effort needs to be made to most effectively combine expert cancer care with holistic, whole-person care, across the cancer continuum.
Oral and dental health, as well as dental services, are important to general practice patients and need to be better integrated into general practitioners' thinking and practice.
Oral and dental health, as well as dental services, are important to our patients and need to be better integrated into our own thinking and practice.
Economic drivers have changed the way in which patients seek attention for oral and facial conditions.
For patients already undergoing treatment, replacing interfering medications results in fewer false positives and false negatives.