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- Chest pain: The importance of serial ECGs
Repeat electrocardiograms in a 44-year-old man who presented with severe hypertension revealed de Winter and Wellens patterns.
- Dermatomyositis-related interstitial lung disease mimicking COVID-19 pneumonia
A subtype of myositis with characteristic skin rashes and ulcers, amyopathic or hypomyopathic symptoms, and rapidly progressive ILD.
- Leriche syndrome
Physical examination revealed pallor of the toes, cold extremities, dry skin, and absence of bilateral femoral pulses. The patient also disclosed erectile dysfunction.
- Abdominal pseudohernia due to herpes zoster
A 66-year-old man presents with bulging and persistent burning pain in the right abdominal side for 4 days.
- Eruptive seborrheic keratosis: A perilous clue
An abrupt increase in seborrheic keratoses in patients with an underlying malignancy is called the Leser-Trélat sign.
- Pseudopathologic vertebral body enhancement
Contrast-enhanced computed tomography revealed sclerotic enhancement of the T1 vertebral body and the vertebral bodies from C2 to T2.
- Shedding light on subungual digital mucous cysts
Transillumination is a quick and easy way to diagnose digital mucous cysts and rule out other subungual masses.
- Aspiration of a partial denture after an ischemic stroke
A bedside evaluation inaccurately led to the conclusion that it was safe to advance to a dysphagia diet.