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The patient received a kidney transplant 3 months ago and is taking immunosuppressant drugs. What is the most likely diagnosis?
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The patient has sudden loss of vision in one eye and unilateral cotton wool spots on funduscopy. What is the cause?
- A facial cutaneous horn
A healthy 84-year-old woman has an asymptomatic lesion on her cheek that has grown progressively over the past 10 months. What is it?
- A persistently swollen lip
An otherwise healthy man has had asymptomatic swelling of his lower lip for 10 months. What is the cause? What is the treatment?
- Black hairy tongue
A 71-year-old man presents for evaluation of an asymptomatic black discoloration of the tongue. What is the most likely diagnosis?
- A 90-year-old woman with an asymptomatic spot on her cheek
The lesion is asymmetrical and irregularly pigmented with variegated colors and ill-defined borders. What is the diagnosis?
- A judgment call
A young man hospitalized because of a sickle cell crisis requires a central venous line. However, after the catheter is inserted, an initial chest radiograph reveals that the tip may not be in the right place. What should be done?
- A 51-year-old man with nodular lesions
He presents with a 1-year history of episodic pain, swelling, and stiffness in some of the metacarpophalangeal and proximal interphalangeal joints of his fingers. What is the most likely diagnosis?
- Sudden hair loss associated with trachyonychia
A 30-year-old woman has been having episodes of sudden hair loss in well-demarcated areas of her scalp for the past 6 months. What is the most likely diagnosis?