Volume 53 - Issue 8 - August 2013

Periorbital subcutaneous calcification in a patient with diffuse systemic sclerosis.

The purpose of this article is to introduce primary care clinicians to the history, epidemiology, biological causes, and psychosocial complications of PTSD to review the diagnostic evaluation and the...

A collection of cases and photos representing ocular disorders, including corneal abrasions, retinal detachment, and neuroretinitis.

How do I know that he likely didn’t spare a second thought on the patient who just died on the ER table in front of him? Because as a medical student myself, I never did.

Acute chest pain accounts for many presentations and subsequent admissions to the hospital each year.

A 42-year-old woman presents with an acute pruritic eruption that began 2 days earlier on her face, trunk, and extremities.

A 40-year-old woman has had an asymptomatic red rash on her feet and ankles for about 3 months.

For several weeks, a 68-year-old man has had painful blisters on his hands that crusted as they healed.

A 60-year-old man presented with a pruritic rash on the chest and abdomen that had developed over a week in the summer, after a spate of yard work.

The purpura on the eyelids of this 81-year-old woman proved to be caused by amyloidosis.

For 10 years, a 45-year-old man had a recurrent nonpruritic rash on his upper outer arms and lateral trunk.

An 80-year-old woman is brought to the office because her daughter thinks she has not been displaying her usual “vim, vigor, and energy” in recent months

A 45-year-old premenopausal Caucasian woman with no coronary risk factors presented to a rural community hospital complaining of substernal, burning chest pain. EKG on arrival demonstrated ST elevation in...

For patients with diabetes, peripheral neuropathy is one of the most debilitating complications. Patients experience losses in sensation, balance, and walking ability, and they are at greater risk for foot...

For patients with diabetes, peripheral neuropathy is one of the most debilitating complications. Patients experience losses in sensation, balance, and walking ability, and they are at greater risk for foot...

For patients with diabetes, peripheral neuropathy is one of the most debilitating complications. Patients experience losses in sensation, balance, and walking ability, and they are at greater risk for foot...

This asymptomatic lesion has been present on the upper lip of a 41-year-old man for over a year. He works outdoors and has had extensive sun exposure.

Moses Maimonides was perhaps the most famous Jewish physician in medieval times.