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- A broken pacemaker lead in a 69-year-old woman
The patient presented with fatigue, cough, light-headedness, and a heart rate of 30 beats per minute.
- Metastatic pulmonary calcification and end-stage renal disease
CT may show diffusely calcified nodules, high-attenuation areas of consolidation, or fluffy ground-glass nodules.
- Erythematous patches with keratotic annular borders on the glans penis
Reactive arthritis was diagnosed on the basis of urethritis, ocular symptoms, circinate balanitis, and sacroiliitis.
- A second-degree burn after MRI
After undergoing imaging, the patient had 2 new bullous lesions on his inner thighs.
- Heartburn or heart attack? A mimic of MI
The diagnosis: milk-alkali syndrome, complicated by thiazide use.
- Imaging suggestive, but symptoms atypical
Pseudosubarachnoid hemorrhage is an artifact of CT imaging.
- A dermatosis of pregnancy
Eight days after giving birth, a 33-year-old woman presented with pruritic erythematous papules and plaques on the abdomen.
- Palmar erythema as a sign of cancer
Red palms in an elderly patient can be due to a number of systemic diseases.
- Lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma presenting as retinal hemorrhage
New-onset blurred vision should prompt a comprehensive history and physical examination.
- Black hairy tongue cured concurrently with respiratory infection
Proposed causes include medications, hyposalivation, poor oral hygiene, smoking, and infection.