Volume 43 - Issue 8 - August 2003

Consultant


Vibrio vulnificus Infection
04/30/2011
Kelley Myers
A 59-year-old man, who was unable to walk, was brought to the emergency department with severe leg pain, worsening weakness, increasing fatigue, chills, an
04/30/2011

Acute Radiodermatitis
04/30/2011
Ted Rosen, MD
For 3 weeks, an extremely painful lesion had been present on the right ankle of a 46-year-old man.
04/30/2011
Ankylosing Spondylitis
04/30/2011
John Whyte, MD, MPH; Anthony L. Filly, MD
Twenty-four hours after a car accident, a 47-year-old man with chronic low back pain-which had been diagnosed years earlier as "arthritis" of the spine-presented with back and...
04/30/2011

Dermatomyositis
04/30/2011
Clarence William Brown, Jr., MD; Stephanie F. Marschall, MD
This inflammatory myopathy is believed to be related to immune-mediated muscle damage.1 An increased incidence of malignancy is associated with
04/30/2011

Systemic Sclerosis
04/30/2011
Yusuf Yazici, MD; Doruk Erkan, MD; Rachelle Scott, MD; Stephen Paget, MD
This disorder-also known as scleroderma (SD)-affects the skin and internal organs and is characterized by fibrotic arteriosclerosis of peripheral and visce
04/30/2011

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
04/30/2011
Rachelle Scott, MD; Stephen Paget, MD; Yusuf Yazici, MD; Doruk Erkan, MD
The manifestations of this multisystem disorder range from relatively benign, self-limited cutaneous involvement to severe, potentially fatal systemic illn
04/30/2011
Case Report
Case Report
Ulcerative Colitis With Pseudopolyps
04/30/2011
Major Chad M. Sisk, DO
For 6 weeks, a 29-year-old previously healthy man had between 10 and 15 episodes daily of small-volume bloody diarrhea with intermittent paraumbilical pain.
04/30/2011

Bartholin Gland Abscess
04/30/2011
Jack-Ky Wang, MD; Anna M. Richie
At 37 weeks' gestation, a 27-year-old woman (gravida 1, para 0) presented with increasing vaginal pain and a yellowish white discharge of 1 week's duration
04/30/2011