A young man with chronic dry cough

@#In primary care, chest X-rays are commonly performed to assess patients presenting with a prolonged cough. However, the extent to which the flms are accurately interpreted depends on the skill of the doctors. Doctors with insufcient experience may miss an exact diagnosis when evaluating a flm, especially in patients with nonspecifc symptoms, such as in the case discussed in this paper. Tis case involved a persistent dry cough with an underlying diagnosis that would have been missed if the fndings of the chest X-ray had not been properly analyzed.

Concomitant dengue fever in Varicella zoster infection – A rare presentation

@#Varicella zoster infection is one of the self-limiting viral infections during childhood and dengue fever is an endemic infection in Malaysia, which commonly occurs in the form of nonspecific febrile illness at the initial stage. It is rare for the two viral infections to occur simultaneously. A case of dengue fever without warning sign in a five-year old girl was reported, with early symptoms of fever and vesicular rashes. She was clinically diagnosed with varicella zoster infection during the first visit. Surprisingly, she remained febrile even on day six of illness despite no new vesicular lesions on her skin. Due to suspicion of another infection, follow-up investigation was done and revealed isolated thrombocytopenia. This finding was confirmed with positive NS1Ag. A case of rare dengue fever concomitant with varicella zoster infection was reported.

Non-specific skin purpura

@#Essential thrombocythemia is one of the myeloproliferative neoplasms. Palpable purpura is a rare manifestation that may delay diagnosis and treatment. We report a case of essential thrombocythemia in a 50-year-old man, who presented with recurrent thigh pain for the past one year with nonspecific localized purpura. His full blood count revealed isolated thrombocytosis of 880,000/µL with an impression of myeloproliferative disorder from peripheral blood film. He was referred urgently to the hematology team, which proceeded with a venesection. His condition improved with hydroxyurea. This was a rare case of chronic presentation of myeloproliferative neoplasm detected at a primary care clinic