Volume 43 - Issue 3 - March 2003

Consultant

Peer Reviewed
Peer Reviewed
What is Responsible for This Man’s Recurring Painful Cysts?
09/20/2017
Robert Levine, MD, DO
Painful cysts on the sternal and left axillary regions that had worsened over the past 3 weeks prompted a 42-year-old man to seek medical care.
09/20/2017
Acid-Base Disturbances: 5 Rules That Can Simplify Diagnosis
05/01/2011
Gregory W. Rutecki, MD
Must primary care clinicians be fluent in acid-base physiology? Yes, for 2 major reasons: First, many common disease states can be recognized through identification of acid-base disturbances
05/01/2011
Bacterial Overgrowth Syndrome
04/30/2011
Mubashir Shah; Khalid Aziz; Joel Levine
Excessive belching, abdominal bloating, and flatulence caused an 89-year-old woman to seek medical attention.
04/30/2011
Dermclinic
Dermclinic

A Photo Quiz to Hone Dermatologic Skills
04/30/2011
David L. Kaplan, MD
04/30/2011

Lipoma
04/30/2011
Justine H.S. Fong, MD; Alexander K.C. Leung, MD, MBBS, FRCPC, FRCP
For 2 years, an asymptomatic mass had been present in the left iliac crest area of a 6-year-old boy.
04/30/2011

Treatment-Associated Disorders
04/30/2011
Nikolaso K. Akritidis, MD; K. Haritos, MD
Case 1 Postcholecystectomy Obstruction A 74-year-old man presented with generalized itching and mild jaundice. A year earlier, he had underg
04/30/2011

Leukemia Cutis
04/30/2011
Ted Rosen, MD
The abrupt onset of widespread cutaneous eruptions prompted a 66-year-old man to seek medical evaluation.
04/30/2011

Lymphangioma Circumscriptum
04/30/2011
Robert P. Blereau, MD
This lesion on her knee had been present for 5 years, reported a 22- year-old woman.
04/30/2011
Leprosy (Hansen Disease)
04/30/2011
XinQi Dong
Leprosy, or Hansen disease, had recently been diagnosed in a 39-year-old man.
04/30/2011

Gardner Syndrome
04/30/2011
By Drs Ali Ahmadizadeh and Juan Perez
By Drs Ali Ahmadizadeh and Juan Pere...
An otherwise healthy 38-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a 1-day history of generalized left-sided weakness.
04/30/2011
Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia
04/30/2011
Sonia Arunabh Talwar, MD; Kanwar Rauhila, MD; Mamta Verma, MD
A 72-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with epistaxis and generalized telangiectasia.
04/30/2011

Facial Paralysis
04/30/2011
Sanmugam Uthamalingam; Sivakumar Natanasabapathy
For 2 weeks, a 59-year-old woman had experienced weakness on the left side of her face.
04/30/2011
Reaction to Quinine
04/30/2011
Michael P. Honan
The sudden onset of a petechial rash on the upper and lower extremities, ecchymosis of the tongue, and an episode of epistaxis prompted a 78-year-old woman to seek medical...
04/30/2011

Stevens-Johnson Syndrome
04/30/2011
Kamal Boulos, MD; H. Taha, MD; Gamil Kostandy, MD
A 47-year-old woman who was seropositive for HIV-1 presented to the emergency department with severe maculopapular, erythematous eruptions.
04/30/2011

Sternal Wound Infection
04/30/2011
Sonia Arunabh Talwar, MD; Kanwar Rauhila, MD
Three weeks after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, a 52-year-old woman complained of pain at the sternal scar.
04/30/2011

Postcholecystectomy
04/30/2011
Nikolaso K. Akritidis, MD; K. Haritos, MD
A 74-year-old man presented with generalized itching and mild jaundice. A year earlier, he had undergone a laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Laboratory test re
04/30/2011

Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury
04/30/2011
By Dr Virendra Parikh
By Dr Virendra Parikh
A 26-year-old woman complained of flatus and fecal incontinence of solid stool. One year earlier, she was delivered of a 3.86-kg (8.5-lb) infant; a seve
04/30/2011

Postpneumonectomy Empyema
04/30/2011
R.K. Jain, MD; Sonia Arunabh Talwar, MD
A 64-year-old man underwent a right pneumonectomy for squamous cell carcinoma of the right lung.
04/30/2011