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      A 78-year-old female patient was referred by her GP to the pain clinic complaining of pain in her chest wall on the right side

      The woman reported spontaneous sharp burning pain in the right side of her chest just under the breast for the past four months. The pain is provoked by trivial...

      Read more

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      Infectious diseases: HIV

      The first cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in Ireland were reported in the Irish Journal of Medical Science in 1983.1 Two patients presented to the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Dublin with purplish skin lesions typical of the rare soft tissue cancer, Kaposi sarcoma. At this early stage of what...

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