Volume 54 - Issue 8 - August 2014

A 36-year-old female with advanced AIDS presented to our HIV clinic with a 2-month history of new facial skin lesions. The patient is not currently on antiretroviral therapy.

A 63-year-old female presented with a outbreak of slightly itchy and slightly tender papular and vesicular eruption on the inner aspect of the left that appears to follow the dermatome of 1-day duration. ...

A 55-year-old female presented for evaluation of pigmented lesion on her thigh and was noted to have a dark area on 1 ankle.

A 12-year-old female presented with a worsening discoloring on her trunk of 6 months duration that was asymptomatic. She is otherwise healthy. She is self-conscious about being in a bathing suit.

A 52-year old white woman with past medical history of right lower extremity deep venous thrombosis, hypertension, asthma, and degenerative joint diseases in both knees and cervical spines, presented to...

A 94-year-old woman with a history of moderate dementia and chronic pancreatitis with loose stools was admitted to the inpatient medicine service for 1 day of generalized malaise, low-grade fever, and...

A 38-year-old woman, who was 28 weeks pregnant, presented with a 2-day history of worsening left lower quadrant abdominal pain.

A 17-year-old young man presented to the emergency department shortly after inserting several dozen Buckyballs into his urethra, presumably for self-stimulation purposes.

The acute onset of substernal chest pain during vigorous exercise prompted a 70-year-old woman to seek emergency medical attention. She reported chest pressure, left arm numbness, shortness of breath, and...

A patient with a history of hay fever and cigarette use presents with wheezing, a cough, and dyspnea. Is it asthma or COPD?

We have recently been following KD, a 58-year-old male who was diagnosed with a first unprovoked deep vein thrombosis (DVT). After completing 3 months of treatment with warfarin, KD elected to continue...

A 29-year-old woman presents for evaluation of changes in her skin. Several months ago, in the spring, she had noticed lightening of her skin in both elbow areas as well as her forehead area where the band...

This first part of a 2-part series will describe the findings of echocardiography in patients with systolic and diastolic HF.

This case study describes a 70-year-old male who was diagnosed with progressive nonfluent aphasia in 2003.

This case study describes a 70-year-old male who was diagnosed with progressive nonfluent aphasia in 2003.

This case study describes a 70-year-old male who was diagnosed with progressive nonfluent aphasia in 2003.

While not defining the virtuous physician in specific detail, Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD gives us some hints as to how he or she may be recognized.

August is Psoriasis Awareness Month. About 7.5 million Americans suffer from psoriasis; of which, 80% have a condition known as plaque psoriasis—characterized by patches of raised, reddish skin covered with...