This article is part 4 of a 5-part series of Photo Essays describing and differentiating conditions affecting the tongue and related structures in the oral cavity.
A 15-year-old boy presented with persistent pain in the mid left leg for the past 3 weeks. The pain was associated with a limp and sometimes awoke him from sleep.
CT scans of an 81-year-old woman revealed vacuum phenomena in the intervertebral disks on the levels L1 through S1. Many internists are not familiar with the interpretation of this finding and its clinical...
Nasal septal perforation, a communication between the nasal passageways, is usually discovered incidentally during clinical or radiological examination. A broad variety of presumed etiologies have been...
A 20-year-old woman presented for her first prenatal care visit at 32 weeks of gestation. Her pregnancy had been uneventful. An initial fetal ultrasonogram demonstrated an enlarged heart and aortic...
A 55-year-old white woman presented with new-onset acute bilateral hand swelling and numbness, upper-limb motor weakness, generalized fatigue, bilateral popliteal inflammation, and a transient episode of...
A 9-year-old boy was brought to a primary care office by his mother. The patient had complained of self-limited sudden left otalgia the day before his visit.
Due to a neonate’s tachypnea and pallor at delivery, echocardiography was done to assess for cardiac lesions, only to find one of the rarest conditions known of cardiac origin, of which requires serious...
