Volume 47 - Issue 5 - May 2007

Consultant

Toxic Exposure
Toxic Exposure
04/28/2011
<div id="article-content-body"> <p>The line on the gums of this 30-year-old man indicates lead poisoning. The patient had been employed for 8 months at a lead smelting plant in which...
04/28/2011
Breast Abscess
Breast Abscess
04/28/2011
Kenneth Batts, DO; Erin Drifmeyer, MD, COL
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04/28/2011
Hormonal Contraceptive
Hormonal Contraceptive
04/28/2011
<div id="article-content-body"><p>My 32-year-old patient has a seizure disorder that is treated with <span class="DrugLink">phenytoin</span>. She wants to use...
04/28/2011
Nasal Septal Abscess
Nasal Septal Abscess
04/28/2011
Joel M. Schwartz, MD
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04/28/2011
Elephantiasis Nostras Verrucosa
Elephantiasis Nostras Verrucosa
04/28/2011
Shobhana Chaudhari, MD; Francisco Miled Pherez, MD; Gabriel Sandkovsky, MD
<div id="article-content-body"> <p>A 60-year-old man was hospitalized with fever and hypotension secondary to recurrent cellulitis of the left leg. He had a history of polysubstance...
04/28/2011
Review
Review
04/28/2011
Although psoriasis is rarely life-threatening, the disease has significant psychosocial ramifications.
04/28/2011
oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV)
oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV)
04/28/2011
<div id="article-content-body"><p>How long does immunity against polio last in a person vaccinated with oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV)? With inactivated poliovirus vaccine...
04/28/2011
Quiz
Quiz
04/28/2011
William J. Brady, MD; Richard A. Harrigan, MD; Theodore Chan, MD
<div id="article-content-body">A 24-year-old woman presents to the emergency department (ED) with generalized weakness, headache, and muscle cramping that have progressively worsened over...
04/28/2011
Dermatitis
Dermatitis
04/28/2011
David L. Kaplan, MD
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04/28/2011
Quiz
Quiz
04/28/2011
Ronald N. Rubin, MD
A woman woman with burning discomfort in the region of her lower sternum and was diagnosed with gastroesophageal reflux disease.
04/28/2011
Medicine in the 21st Century
Medicine in the 21st Century
04/28/2011
<div id="article-content-body"> <p>Remember the "good old days" (boy, do I feel old writing that) when all you had to do was practice clinical medicine and take care of...
04/28/2011
Conjunctival Granuloma
Conjunctival Granuloma
04/28/2011
Jeffrey Ant, DDS, MD
<div id="article-content-body"><p>Two months after undergoing bilateral transconjunctival blepharoplasty, a 48-year-old man presented with dryness and pruritus of the left eye of 1...
04/28/2011
Halo Nevus
Halo Nevus
04/28/2011
Bhagwan Das Bang, MD
<div id="article-content-body"><p>A 13-year-old girl noticed that the skin around a "mole" on her abdomen had gradually changed color. This patient was told that she had a...
04/28/2011
refractory skin disorder
refractory skin disorder
04/28/2011
Henry Schneiderman, MD
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04/28/2011
05/01/2007
Two days after "heading" a soccer ball, a 17-year-old boy presented to the emergency department with progressive pain and a foreign-body sensation in his left eye. Visual acuity was 20/20 in the right eye...
05/01/2007
Foreign Body
Foreign Body
05/01/2007
Craig J. Huang, MD
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05/01/2007