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- Bilateral adrenal masses
In a woman with a thrombus in the aorta, imaging reveals bilateral high-density adrenal masses. What is the diagnosis?
Sessile serrated polyps: Cancer risk and appropriate surveillanceThe serrated polyp pathway is different than the pathway for conventional adenomas. What does finding these polyps on colonoscopy mean for patient care?
- Appreciating Asperger syndrome: Implications for better care and outcomes
The behavior of an Einstein, Ford, Edison, or Beethoven might lead to a diagnosis of Asperger syndrome today.
- Statins and diabetes risk: Fact, fiction, and clinical implications
The benefit of preventing serious cardiovascular events using statins seems to outweigh the higher risks of diabetes and poorer glycemic control.
- Is an adult with Asperger syndrome sitting in your waiting room?
The authors offer guidance on interacting with adult patients who have this disorder. They also address proposed diagnostic changes scheduled to take effect in 2013.
- Androgen deficiency in older men: Indications, advantages, and pitfalls of testosterone replacement therapy
This, the second of two articles on hypogonadism in men, focuses on the appropriate use of testosterone therapy.
- A rash after streptococcal infection
The patient, a 39-year-old woman, had been taking amoxicillin for streptococcal pharyngitis. What caused the rash?
- Tattooing: Medical uses and problems
Tattooing is used in medical alerts, breast reconstruction, radiation oncology, endoscopy, forensic medicine, and other areas.