Arnold and Cameron describe a squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity in a patient with lower limb arteriopathy. The impact of comorbidities on surgical management of diseases such as cancer is an exigent discussion due to ageing populations.

During the past decades, terrorism in different regions of the world is affecting the psychological wellbeing among the populations. Here we assess the psychological status in terms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Depression among the terrorism affected Hazara community of Quetta.

Fernando and Kelly report a paediatric case of a 6-year-old girl with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) who presented with easy bruising and gum bleeding. Following diagnosis and treatment as pre-B cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (pre-B ALL) the patient developed an acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) which was refractory to all available curative therapies.