Diagnosis Strategies

A previously healthy 58-year-old man presents to the clinician’s office with a sensation of intermittent palpitations of about 1 week’s duration.

In a 3-week period, two men present to the office asking for advice regarding prostate cancer screening and evaluations they have undergone in recent weeks.

A 66-year-old man presents to the clinic with a small, bright red bump on his left ring finger, which he noticed about 1 to 2 months prior to presentation.

A 54-year-old woman presented to an outpatient office for recurrent erythema and tenderness of the right lower eyelid and cheek. She was not taking any medications, and her health was excellent. She denied...

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 51-year-old man who works in the delivery services industry presented with bilateral leg edema, weight loss, and fatigue. He has lost more than 4.5 kg (10 lb) in the past 4 months without dieting. In...

A 71-year-old Russian-speaking man with a past medical history of hypertension and benign prostatic hyperplasia presented to the emergency department for evaluation of severe hemoptysis.

For more than three years now, COVID-19 continues to appear as a variety of symptom sets in the pediatric population—from completely asymptomatic presentations to fulminant respiratory failure, and...

When evaluating patients presenting with low back pain, conducting a targeted history and physical examination is vital to identify indications of a potentially significant underlying condition, what we...

Acute hematogenous vertebral osteomyelitis (AVOM) is a rare condition that causes significant morbidity in in the pediatric population owing to non-specific presentation and delayed diagnoses. The clinical...