{"title":"Cauda equina syndrome due to extramedullary hematopoiesis.","authors":"Uddalak Chakraborty, Amlan Kusum Datta, Adreesh Mukherjee, Sudeshna Malakar","doi":"10.1177/14782715251318873","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14782715251318873","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh","volume":" ","pages":"106-107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143383738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The skin deep truth: Why pulse oximeters may be misleading.","authors":"Sharang Gupta","doi":"10.1177/14782715251327240","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14782715251327240","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh","volume":" ","pages":"146-147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143606591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using HINTS in acute vestibular syndrome: A practical guide for the acute care physician.","authors":"Steven Aldridge, Kailash Krishnan","doi":"10.1177/14782715251325585","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14782715251325585","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Acute vestibular syndrome (AVS) is a common clinical presentation. Common causes include peripheral, self-limiting labyrinthine disorders, but a significant proportion are caused by posterior circulation stroke (PoCS). Delineating between a peripheral versus central cause in AVS is challenging for acute care physicians, but a simple, three-step bedside test known collectively as the HINTS examination may be useful. Substantial evidence supports the use of the HINTS examination in detection of PoCS in AVS, but it is important that performer is trained and experienced to ensure reliability of the test's results. There is some evidence that video-assisted HINTS examination may help to improve HINTS performance, but further research is needed. This review is a practical guide for acute care physicians in regards to when to perform the HINTS examination, how to interpret its findings, limitations and practical considerations.</p>","PeriodicalId":46606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh","volume":" ","pages":"139-145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143606594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The skulls of two students of African descent in the University of Edinburgh's Anatomical Museum.","authors":"Simon Buck","doi":"10.1177/14782715251338729","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14782715251338729","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article investigates the identities of two students of African descent whose skulls, having first been acquired by the Phrenological Society of Edinburgh sometime in the mid-nineteenth century, today reside in the University of Edinburgh's Anatomical Museum. Examining archival records in Edinburgh and the Caribbean, it proposes a possible identification of the individuals as Robert Bruce Richards and George Richards, two brothers of mixed European and African descent from Barbados who appear to have studied at the University of Edinburgh in the early 1830s and died during their time there. The article explains the rationale for this possible identification, while also acknowledging and explaining evidential gaps and inconsistencies. It provides information on the Richards' background in Barbados and their deaths in Edinburgh and speculates how and why the students' skulls might have been acquired by Edinburgh's Phrenological Society (whose collection of human remains later entered the University's Anatomical Museum). Finally, the article reflects on the significance and methodological and ethical complexities of this case, situating the research in the context of calls for decolonisation, reparative justice and the repatriation of colonially derived ancestral remains in the Anatomical Museum's contested 'collection'.</p>","PeriodicalId":46606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh","volume":" ","pages":"114-122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144188265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The hook osteophyte (sign) in hereditary haemochromatosis.","authors":"Noor Jawad, Ali Jawad","doi":"10.1177/14782715251327244","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14782715251327244","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh","volume":" ","pages":"148-149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143606588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shahrukh Rehman, Muzzamil Ahmed, Khalil Ullah Khan, Soban Ahmed Qureshi, Muhammad Adnan, Sohaib Raza
{"title":"Emphasizing the clinical impact of the HINTS examination review; a vital contribution to acute care.","authors":"Shahrukh Rehman, Muzzamil Ahmed, Khalil Ullah Khan, Soban Ahmed Qureshi, Muhammad Adnan, Sohaib Raza","doi":"10.1177/14782715251342124","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14782715251342124","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh","volume":" ","pages":"156-157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144095369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sonika Garg, Biswanath Behera, Vishal Thakur, Shreya K Gowda
{"title":"Cutaneous pigmentation and sensory ataxia in vitamin B12 deficiency.","authors":"Sonika Garg, Biswanath Behera, Vishal Thakur, Shreya K Gowda","doi":"10.1177/14782715251325580","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14782715251325580","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh","volume":" ","pages":"108-109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143606586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nasal ala destruction: A clue to trigeminal trophic syndrome.","authors":"Sree Parvathy, Keepa Manandhar, Shreya K Gowda","doi":"10.1177/14782715251342132","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14782715251342132","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh","volume":" ","pages":"158-159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144081315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women who qualified as doctors in the United Kingdom, 1877-1914: Birthplaces, parentage and training.","authors":"Roger Jeffery","doi":"10.1177/14782715251333612","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14782715251333612","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper uses a newly created database of all women who gained a qualification registrable with the General Medical Council between 1877 and 1914 to answer the following questions. Where and when were they born, where were their parents born and where did they train? The paper shows that women doctors born in Scotland or of Scotland-born parentage formed a much higher proportion of the population of that country than those born in England and Wales, or in Ireland. In addition, Scotland trained a disproportionately higher share of those trained in the United Kingdom. Odds ratios are used to establish the significance of this picture. Some provisional ideas are advanced towards an explanation of these findings.</p>","PeriodicalId":46606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh","volume":" ","pages":"123-131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144041726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond biologics: The role of plasmapheresis in severe psoriasis.","authors":"Sharang Gupta","doi":"10.1177/14782715251338732","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14782715251338732","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh","volume":" ","pages":"152-153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143987877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}