In December 2018, a 27-year-old man who had recently emigrated to the United States from India had struck his right elbow into a door. Over the following weeks, he had experienced progressive pain and...
Post-intubation tracheal stenosis (PITS) is a rare but well-known complication of prolonged mechanical ventilation. Tracheal ischemia caused by prolonged endotracheal intubation is thought to be the primary...
A 69-year-old man with a medical history significant for hypertension and dyslipidemia presented with recent onset of neck pain for about a month. The pain was situated over the right occipital area. No...
A 27-year-old woman with no significant medical history presented with sudden-onset midsternal chest pain radiating to her arms bilaterally, dizziness, diffuse band-like headache, intermittent blurry...
An 11-year-old girl was brought to our emergency department by her parents with pain in the left lower quadrant of her abdomen. The pain had started approximately 4 to 5 hours prior to presentation.
A 74-year-old man with a history of oxygen-dependent chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension, tobacco use disorder, recurrent left pleural effusion, and latent tuberculosis was admitted at an...
A 22-year-old man with morbid obesity presented to the clinic with a painless lump in his upper abdominal wall that had grown by 30% to 40% from October 2019 to January 2020.
A 38-year-old man with a history of diverticulitis presented to the emergency department with a 4-day history of intermittent worsening right upper quadrant abdominal pain associated with nausea and...
A 22-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a sore throat. His pain began 12 hours earlier on the left side and subsequently progressed to the right side.
A 23-year-old military pilot presented to an aviation clinic for his annual flight physical examination. At the start of the examination, the patient drew the flight surgeon’s attention to a lump on the...
