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- Colorectal cancer screening: Making sense of the different guidelines
Colon cancer screening is dismally underused. A review of the guidelines from three different groups, with recommendations in areas of controversy.
- Gastrointestinal and renal involvement in vasculitis: Management strategies in Henoch-Schönlein purpura
Available evidence favors a short course of oral corticosteroids for gastrointestinal involvement and aggressive immunotherapy for progressive HSP nephritis, but the data are sparse.
- Diagnosing and treating plantar fasciitis: A conservative approach to plantar heel pain
A simple diagnostic and treatment strategy that emphasizes nonsurgical treatment for this frustrating condition.
- Management of perimenopause: Focus on alternative therapies
What unregulated over-the-counter products are your patients taking? What do these products do?
- Diagnosis and treatment of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis
Nearly everyone loses bone mass when they take corticosteroids long-term. Physicians should take proactive steps to mitigate the problem.
- Falls in the elderly: Office-based evaluation, prevention, and treatment
When an elderly person falls, a medical evaluation and simple interventions can decrease the risk of further falls and injury.
- Carpal tunnel syndrome: The cause dictates the treatment
Repetitive trauma is but one of many causes of carpal tunnel syndrome, and conservative treatment is the rule. With an illustration showing the anatomy, signs, and symptoms of this problem.
- Multicentric reticulohistiocytosis: A mimic of gout and rheumatoid arthritis
Multicentric reticulohistiocytosis can be mistaken for several more-common forms of arthritis, but you can usually confirm the diagnosis on the basis of the characteristic cutaneous, radiographic, and histologic features.
- Issues and controversies in venous thromboembolism
Discussions and recommendations on nine issues in thromboembolism, not commonly addressed in most reviews.
- Evaluating back pain in older patients
Low back pain in the elderly has a much wider range of possible causes than in younger patients. An illustration shows some of the causes.