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In looking for an underlying cause, we need to be thorough but also contain costs and avoid harm from overtesting.

An estimated 1% to 3% of patients with cancer in the abdomen or pelvis present with a nodule in the umbilicus.

Complete heart block is a form of atrioventricular (AV) dissociation, but not all AV dissociation is complete heart block.

Eosinophilic fasciitis is suspected in a patient with eosinophilia and characteristic cutaneous features.

In view of the potential harm, we question annual screening starting at age 40.

In women in their 40s, the incidence of breast cancer is low but the risk of a tumor being aggressive is especially high.

Further evaluation is required for recurrent pericarditis resistant to conventional therapy or for manifestations of systemic disease.

The patient, who had a history of polymyalgia rheumatica treated with corticosteroids, presented with chills and fever.

Clinical presentation is key in classifying reactions as either mediated by immunoglobulin E or not.

Practitioners can reduce falls by yearly screening and evidence-based interventions.

New, targeted therapies are changing the way advanced basal cell carcinoma, psoriasis, and metastatic melanoma are treated.

Readers comment on warfarin pharmacogenomics (August 2013).