More articles from The Clinical Picture
- Miss the ear, and you may miss the diagnosis
A 52-year-old woman presented with pain, redness, and swelling in both ears, sparing the earlobes.
- Terry nails in a patient with chronic alcoholic liver disease
His fingernails had a distal thin brown-pink transverse band, a white nail bed, and no lunula.
- Erythema and atrophy on the tongue
Oral abnormalities can result from nutritional deficiencies and a host of other conditions.
- ‘Allergic to the sun’
A homeless man presents with burning pain and lesions in his arm for the past 2 to 3 days.
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy apical variant
When a professional soccer player required ankle surgery, his electrocardiogram showed several abnormalities.
- Alveolar proteinosis: A slow drowning in mud
The patient improved markedly after whole-lung lavage and has had no recurrence at 1 year.
- A 78-year-old smoker with an incidental pulmonary mass
His age, smoking history, and findings on radiography raised the concern of lung cancer.
- Double trouble: Simultaneous complications of therapeutic thoracentesis
A 51-year-old man with liver disease developed both pneumothorax and pulmonary edema.
- Encephalopathy despite thiamine repletion during alcohol withdrawal
When managing a patient with chronic alcohol abuse who is beginning to withdraw, expect the unexpected.
- An 18-year-old woman with hepatic cysts
Echinococcus granulosus is a parasitic tapeworm; humans become infected when they ingest the eggs.