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- Metastasis or adenoma? CT evaluation of the adrenal mass
Documenting the stability of adrenal lesions should be done for longer than usual to increase the likelihood of identifying malignant adenomas.
- A 51-year-old man with a history of stroke and red streaks in the legs
A diagnostically challenging case is worked up. Based on a presentation at a Cleveland Clinic Foundation Clinical Pathological Conference.
- Prophylaxis of opportunistic infections in persons with HIV infection
Effective regimens are available for preventing some of these infections. Studies are in progress to establish optimum regimens for others.
- Transesophageal echocardiography: why and when to use it
In this open discussion of an important health care utilization issue, panelists expound on the appropriateness of TEE in several clinical situations.
- Chemotherapy-induced Raynaud's phenomenon
Cure of malignancy is most important, but detecting delayed toxic effects of antineoplastic therapy deserves close attention, as well.
- Diagnosing infective endocarditis
The diagnosis has been based on the presence of fever, a new heart murmur, peripheral stigmata, and sustained bacteremia with a typical microorganism—all of which are not invariably present. New criteria offer greater diagnostic accuracy.
- Azathioprine vs cyclosporine in recipients of HLA-identical renal allografts
These two agents produce equally satisfactory outcomes in this immunologically favored group. The need for continued steroid therapy in these patients requires further study.