Clinical Cases
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- An 80-year-old woman presented with a several-year history of gradual forehead enlargement and progressive hearing loss. Radiography of the skull showed marked thickening of the calvarium, with a cotton-wool appearance.
- A 57-year-old man with previously treated pulmonary tuberculosis presented with a 2-week history of neck pain, headache, and tingling in his hand. MRI of the head showed numerous small, peripherally enhancing nodules.
- A 28-year-old woman presented with a painful rash 5 days after a fall on sea rocks. On examination, fine, erythematous, linear lesions in a stellate distribution on the posterior right thigh were seen.
- A 70-year-old man was admitted to the hospital for weakness, anorexia, and weight loss. Rapidly progressive altered mental status developed shortly after admission. A diagnosis was made.
- An 80-year-old woman presented with a 3-day history of abdominal pain. Imaging revealed numerous small gallstones in the gallbladder and cystic duct, consistent with cholecystitis.
- A 26-year-old man presented with acute leg pain and loss of function in the left leg. CTA of the abdomen showed a saddle embolus at the aortoiliac junction. A heterogeneous mass was seen in the left atrium.
- A 61-year-old man with a history of hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, alcohol use disorder, and chronic pancreatitis was referred to the emergency department for an elevated serum creatinine level.
- A 65-year-old man presented with 1-day history of a rash with a bull’s-eye appearance on his left hip. One week earlier, he had removed a tick from his hip after doing yard work near the woods by his home in Tennessee.
- A 56-year-old man was transferred to a burn center for management of pavement burns on his feet that had occurred during a heat wave.
- A 3-year-old boy presented with a 6-week history of ulcerated plaques with rolled borders and satellite papules on his left lower leg. He had recently immigrated from Venezuela after a long journey by land with his family.
- A 56-year-old woman experiencing homelessness was evaluated at this hospital because of sore throat and a pruritic rash on her face, chest, abdomen, and legs. A diagnosis was made.
- A 46-year-old woman with a history of migraine with visual aura presented with a 3-hour history of headache, as well as weakness and numbness in the right arm.
- A 4-year-old girl presented with a 3-day history of fever and dry cough. A chest radiograph showed a large, rounded opacity in the left lower lobe with subtle air bronchograms.
- A 79-year-old woman was evaluated for cough and weight loss. Chest imaging and thoracentesis findings confirmed the presence of an exudative right pleural effusion. A diagnosis was made.
- A 54-year-old man presented with a 5-month history of weakness. Examination showed proximal muscle weakness and absent patellar reflexes that briefly reappeared after voluntary muscle contraction (shown in a video).
- A 32-year-old woman was admitted with flank pain, fever, and hypoxemia. Imaging showed multifocal pulmonary opacities, pulmonary embolism, and renal vein thromboses. A diagnosis was made.
- A 22-year-old man presented with a 1-year history of a red, scaly rash on his face and body. Direct immunofluorescence of a skin-biopsy specimen showed intercellular IgG antibodies against desmoglein-1.
- A 16-year-old girl presented with a 2-month history of leg swelling. Laboratory results were notable for a low albumin level. Abdominal CT revealed diffuse thickening of the gastric wall with enlarged gastric folds.
- A 27-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with sudden onset of palpitations, dyspnea, and chest tightness after smoking cannabis. She also had an episode of vomiting but had no flulike symptoms.
- A 2-month-old boy was brought to the clinic with a 2-week history of red spots on his face. On examination, annular plaques with edematous borders and central crusting were observed on his face, scalp, and trunk.
