<div id="article-content-body"><p>For 2 months, an asymptomatic rash had been present on the upper arms of a 16-year-old boy of normal weight. The rash, as seen on the patient’s right...
A 50-year-old man had a long-standing rash on both soles. The patient’s toenails were yellow and dystrophic. These physical findings strongly suggested moccasin- variety tinea pedis and onychomycosis (also...
<div id="article-content-body"><p>A 10-month-old infant was referred for evaluation of possible Sturge-Weber syndrome. According to his parents, the discoloration on the child’s face...
<div id="article-content-body"><p>A 35-year-old woman (gravida 3, para 2) presented at 25 weeks’ gestation with a 24-hour history of continuous, pressure-like, retrosternal chest pain,...
<div id="article-content-body"><p>A 33-year-old active-duty soldier who had been in Iraq for 6 months presented with a depressed lesion on his left lateral elbow of several months’...
<div id="article-content-body"><p>For years, a 39-year-old man had an eruption on his hand, which seemed to be controlled with topical corticosteroids. The patient was a rancher. The...
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<p>Apidra (insulin glulisine injection) from Aventis is approved by the FDA for use in adult patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus for the...
Nikolaso K. Akritidis, MD, Konstantinos Paparounas, MD, PhD, and George Pappas, MD
Nikolaso K. Akritidis, MD, Konstantin...
Severe abdominal pain radiating to the back prompted a 72-year-old man to go to the emergency department (ED). The patient had experienced similar pain 2 days earlier and was treated at another hospital for...
Les Trope, MD, Hillel Trope, MD and Shlomo Trope, MD
Les Trope, MD, Hillel Trope, MD and S...
<div id="article-content-body"><p>A painless swelling on the dorsum of the scalp had been present for many years in a 36-year-old man. An increase in the size of the lesion prompted...
<div id="article-content-body"><p>The continuous use of a corticosteroid cream briefly relieved the pruritus of an annular, papulosquamous eruption on the left anterior thigh of a...
<div id="article-content-body"><p>For 1 year, a 30-year-old man had an intermittent rash that was confined to the area of his jockey shorts; no other part of the body was affected. The...
<div id="article-content-body"><p>For more than 20 years, a 55-year-old man had a faintly erythematous, papulosquamous rash with arciform borders on his groin and waistline. The rash...
Alexander K. C. Leung, MD and Justine H. S. Fong, MD
Alexander K. C. Leung, MD and Justine...
<div id="article-content-body"><p>A 7-year-old boy presented with an asymptomatic cystic lesion on the lateral aspect of the left ankle of 4 months’ duration. There was no history of...
Hypertensive crises encompass a spectrum of clinical situations that have in common elevated blood pressure (BP) and progressive or impending target organ damage.
