A 59-year-old man, who was unable to walk, was brought to the emergency department with severe leg pain, worsening weakness, increasing fatigue, chills, an
Twenty-four hours after a car accident, a 47-year-old man with chronic low back pain-which had been diagnosed years earlier as "arthritis" of the spine-presented with back and...
By YUSUF YAZICI, MD Long Island College Hospital and the Hospital for Special Surgery, New York DORUK ERKAN, MD Hospital for Special Surgery, New York RACHELLE SCOTT, MD Cornell University STEPHEN PAGET, MD Cornell University
By YUSUF YAZICI, MDLong Island Colle...
This disorder-also known as scleroderma (SD)-affects
the skin and internal organs and is characterized by fibrotic
arteriosclerosis of peripheral and visce
By YUSUF YAZICI, MD Long Island College Hospital and the Hospital for Special Surgery, New York DORUK ERKAN, MD Hospital for Special Surgery, New York RACHELLE SCOTT, MD Cornell University STEPHEN PAGET, MD Cornell University
By YUSUF YAZICI, MDLong Island Colle...
The manifestations of this multisystem
disorder range from relatively
benign, self-limited cutaneous involvement
to severe, potentially fatal systemic
illn
For 6 weeks, a 29-year-old previously healthy man had between 10 and 15 episodes daily of small-volume bloody diarrhea with intermittent paraumbilical pain.
At 37 weeks' gestation, a 27-year-old woman (gravida 1, para 0) presented with increasing vaginal pain and a yellowish white discharge of 1 week's duration