Rheumatologic Disorders

A 54-year-old man presented to a rheumatology clinic for ongoing care. The patient initially presented to the rheumatology clinic 9 years earlier with a 7-year history of diffuse painful skin. Upon his...

A 57-year-old woman with a past medical history of essential thrombocytosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension, and treated chronic hepatitis C presented to the emergency department with...

A 49-year-old man presented for evaluation of a 10-year history of progressive pain in his joints. The joint pain is localized predominantly in his hands and feet.

A 24-year-old woman presented to the emergency department (ED) with joint swelling, severe arthralgias, and myalgias. She works as a nurse in a busy ED. She was admitted to the hospital for further workup. ...

A 67-year-old woman presented with neck and shoulder discomfort for nearly a month. The patient felt pain in her neck and shoulders with subacute onset about once a week. She called her primary physician...

A 37-year-old woman presented to her primary care physician with erythematous and pruritic patchy lesions on her scalp that had been present for a year, which the patient initially presumed to be associated...

A 64-year-old woman presented to our clinic with constant pain in her left hand that had been worsening over the past 3 months. She described the pain as sharp and has experienced stiffness with the...

A 51-year-old woman presents to your office with musculoskeletal symptoms that she had initially thought were exercise-related.

A 41-year-old woman with a history of fibromyalgia, migraine, and irritable bowel disease presented to the emergency department (ED) with a 1-day history of facial swelling and upper lip swelling associated...

A 62-year-old woman presented to the hospital with lower extremity pain. The pain had initially begun in her left leg distal to her knee. She had thought the pain was secondary to osteoarthritis.