<p>A 50-year-old woman is concerned about a persistent white papule that erupted on her chest a few months ago. The lesion is asymptomatic.</p>
<p>A pruritic, papular eruption arose on a 38-year-old woman’s forehead&nbsp;1 week earlier. A day before the rash erupted, the patient was given a permanent wave.</p>
<p>Zamora-Chinchipe Province in Ecuador is home to about 90,000 people and abuts other Andean provinces of similar size. Most residents of this agrarian region are indigenous Shuar, Saraguro, or mixed...
<p>Does your patient who received last year’s influenza vaccine need to be revaccinated this fall? What about a child who was given 1 dose of vaccine last year—will 1 dose suffice this...
<p>Does your patient who received last year’s influenza vaccine need to be revaccinated this fall? What about a child who was given 1 dose of vaccine last year—will 1 dose suffice this...
<p>A&nbsp;48-year-old woman with a 50-pack year smoking history presented with worsening dyspnea and progressive weight loss of 25 lb over the previous 4 months.&nbsp;In addition, she had a...
Eric Peeples, MD; Anthony Yaghmour, MD; Archana Chatterjee, MD, PhD; Meera Varman, MD
<p>A&nbsp;4-year-old Latino boy with mosaic Turner syndrome (45,XY/45,XO) presented with fever, temperature up to 40.5ºC (105ºF), of 3 days’ duration. He also had swelling on the right side...
<p>What has long been the “state of the art” for cervical cancer screening in primary care? Everyone would appropriately answer the Pap smear, of course. Has it worked? Despite false-positive and...
<p>A&nbsp;4-year-old boy of Nicaraguan descent was hospitalized because of worsening perium<span>bilical abdominal pain. The pain began 6 days&nbsp;</span>earlier and was...
<p>For 4 days, a 62-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes mellitus had constant, severe, crampy abdominal pain associated with nausea, non-bloody emesis, and anorexia, but not fever. She reported that...
<p>The most common ulcer on the lower back and buttocks is the decubitus ulcer (also known as the pressure sore, or bedsore). Most of these ulcers occur in elderly patients, particularly those who...
<p>Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) encompasses a variety of clinical signs and symptoms, and the diagnosis is made with a combination of modalities, including radiographic, endoscopic, and pathologic...
<p>Heparin and warfarin have been mainstays of anticoagulation for decades. Advantages of these agents include their low cost and ready reversibility of anticoagulant effect; however, their major...
