Volume 43 - Issue 6 - June 2003

Consultant


Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
04/30/2011
Joel M. Schwartz, MD
A 69-year-old man with an acute severe headache and nausea was brought to the emergency department.
04/30/2011
A “Solution” for Fibromyalgia Patients Sensitive to Tricyclics
04/30/2011

May 1, 2003

May 1, 2003
Consider a concentrated solution (10 mg/mL) of doxepin( for patients with fibromyalgia who experience side effects with other tricyclics at even 10-mg doses.
04/30/2011
Malignant Melanoma
04/30/2011
Reynold C. Wong, MD
Common sites of melanoma metastases include the nodes, lungs, liver, brain, and bone.
04/30/2011

Malpositioned Nasogastric Tube
04/30/2011
Luis Taylor
A 67-year-old woman, who had hypertension and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, presented to the emergency department with mild abdominal discomfort a
04/30/2011
Allergic Contact Dermatitis
04/30/2011
Jonathan Stuart Crane, DO, MD
For 5 years, a 54-year-old woman had been bothered by an intermittent dermatitis on her left hand and wrist (A). The rash had remained constant during the past year.
04/30/2011
Coexistent Discoid Lupus Erythematosus and Porphyria Cutanea Tarda
04/30/2011
Yelva L. Lynfield, MD; Scott L. Goffin
Bullae had recently appeared on the dorsa of the hands and fingers of a 46-year-old man.
04/30/2011

Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma
04/30/2011
Ted Rosen, MD
A 45-year-old woman presented with a slowly enlarging, mildly tender lesion on the left sole.
04/30/2011

Squamous Cell Carcinoma
04/30/2011
Robert P. Blereau, MD
A 1-cm, tan-brown lesion had developed years earlier at the posterior helix of a 61-year-old man’s right ear.
04/30/2011
Wilms Tumor in an Adult
04/30/2011
Constantine Bouropoulos, MD; Demetrios Papaioannides, MD
A 43-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital with left flank pain. The physical examination revealed a left abdominal mass.
04/30/2011

Cancer of the Penis
04/30/2011
Reynold C. Wong, MD; Steven N. Glavas, DO, MPH
A 38-year-old man presented with a fleshy lesion beneath the tip of his penis. He had discovered it about 18 months before the initial evaluation.
04/30/2011
Case in Point
Case in Point
Pancreatic Carcinoma
04/30/2011
Mubashir Shah; Roderick Remoroza
As many as 95% of malignant tumors of the pancreas are ductal adenocarcinomas.
04/30/2011

Polysyndactyly
04/30/2011
Robert P. Blereau, MD
This 2-day-old infant was noted by Robert P.
04/30/2011

Basal Cell Carcinoma
04/30/2011
Robert P. Blereau, MD
A 65-year-old woman presents with a 1-cm raised, light brown, circular, nodular lesion on the top of her head, which has progressively enlarged during the
04/30/2011

Sister Mary Joseph Nodule
04/30/2011
Manny C. Katsetos; Steven V. Angus
An 85-year-old man presented with intermittent abdominal pain of several years’ duration.
04/30/2011

Lymphedema Tarda
04/30/2011
Sajal Kumar; Sanmugam Uthamalingam
A 40-year-old man presented with a 5-year history of progressively increasing bilateral leg swelling that was neither painful nor pruritic.
04/30/2011
Piebaldism
06/01/2003
A healthy 16-year-old girl was bothered by a patch of white hair on her forehead; she also had a few white plaques on her abdomen, which had been present since birth. Her maternal great grandmother and...
06/01/2003