#rarecase

[droyorokofestus]

Nature still finds ways to astonish us. A baby born pregnant with their own twin—truly a medical marvel! 🧬👶

[orthotv]

🔰 JOCR Article of the Day: Fractured Connection: Unmasking Primary Hyperparathyroidism Through Bilateral Quadriceps Tendon Rupture – A Case Report — a rare case where an unusual tendon injury led to the diagnosis of an underlying endocrine disorder

🔶 Read Free Full Text: https://jocr.co.in/wp/2025/12/fractured-connection-unmasking-primary-hyperparathyroidism-through-bilateral-quadriceps-tendon-rupture-a-case-report/

✍ Authored by: Dr. I M Maqbal Muhasin Nazar, Dr. Sharafuddeen Mammu, Dr. V H Nidhin Chacko, Dr. Rahul Chandran, Dr. Ashwin Rajamohanan, Dr. Shaneed Karinkappara

🧠 Key Insight: This case report describes a patient presenting with spontaneous bilateral quadriceps tendon rupture, an extremely rare event, which led to the discovery of primary hyperparathyroidism due to a parathyroid adenoma. Timely bilateral tendon repair followed by adenoma excision resulted in excellent functional recovery, emphasizing the importance of evaluating systemic causes in atypical musculoskeletal injuries

✅ JOCR is now accepting Original Articles & Case Series: https://www.jocr.co.in/wp/submit-article/

🔆 JOCR Indexed with PubMed & DOAJ

[orthotv]

🔰 JOCR Article of the Day:

A Rare Footprint: A Case Report of Isolated Pre-Axial Fully Developed Supernumerary Toe

🔶 Read Free Full text: https://jocr.co.in/wp/2025/04/01/a-rare-footprint-a-case-report-of-isolated-pre-axial-fully-developed-supernumerary-toe/

✍️ Authored by- Varun Kumar , Mohan Choudhary , Srinivasan Rajappa , Kevin Lourdes , Arjun Ganesh , P Velmurugan

✅ JOCR Now accepting Original Articles and Case series too– https://www.jocr.co.in/wp/submit-article/

🔆 JOCR Indexed with Pubmed

[mad-med-stud]

Rare Case #3 : The Ability to see UV light

In this case, we can use Claude Monet as example.

Late in his life, Claude Monet developed cataracts. As his lenses degraded, they blocked parts of the visible spectrum, and the colors he perceived grew muddy.  He agreed at age 82 to have the lens of his left eye completely removed.With his lens removed, Monet continued to paint. Flowers remained one of his favorite subjects. Only now the flowers were different. When most people look at water lily flowers, they appear white. After his cataract surgery, Monet's blue-tuned pigments could grab some of the UV light bouncing off of the petals. He started to paint the flowers a whitish-blue.

I still didn't know what's this condition called, anyone?

[mad-med-stud]

Rare Case #2 : Tetrachromacy

Tetrachromacy is the condition of possessing four independent channels for conveying color information, or possessing four types of cone cells in the eye. The normal explanation of tetrachromacy is that the organism's retina contains four types of higher-intensity light receptors (called cone cells in vertebrates as opposed to rod cells which are lower intensity light receptors) with different absorption spectra.

So Short said, he/she can see more colours than we can see right now. An example is Concetta Antico

[mad-med-stud]

Rare Case #1 : Synaesthesia

In its simplest form it is best described as a “union of the senses” whereby two or more of the five senses that are normally experienced separately are involuntarily and automatically joined together. Some synaesthetes experience colour when they hear sounds or read words. Others experience tastes, smells, shapes or touches in almost any combination.

And example for this is, Dustin o'halloran, all i could say about synesthesia is that most people with this ocndition turns to be a great.. artist, i'd say.