Dermatology

  • Erythema ab igne
    Thomas Smith, MD and Vinod E. Nambudiri, MD, MBA
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2018, 85 (2) 96-97; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17015

    The patient had been using a heating pad daily, often for several hours at a time, to relieve his back pain.

  • Scapular rash and endocrine neoplasia
    Muhammed Razmi T, MD, DNB, Debajyoti Chatterjee, MD and Davinder Parsad, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2017, 84 (11) 831-832; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16121

    A woman in her 30s presents with an itchy skin-colored rash over her scapula of 8 years’ duration.

  • Fever after recent travel
    Habib Rehman, MBBS, FRCPC, FRCPI, FRCP (GLAS), FACP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2017, 84 (11) 840-846; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16046

    The patient had been taking a TNF-alpha inhibitor and had recently returned from Mexico.

  • Abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea in a 32-year-old woman
    Neha Agrawal, MD, Amandeep Singh, MD, Thomas Plesec, MD, David Liska, MD, Bradley Confer, DO, Jessica Philpott, MD, PhD and Florian Rieder, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2017, 84 (11) 847-854; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16085

    The patient also has numerous painful ulcerations on her skin and in her mouth.

  • A rose by any other name is still a rose—but why a rose?
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2017, 84 (1) 11-12; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84b.01017

    Christopher Columbus returned from the New World with a chronic illness, now believed to have been reactive arthritis.

  • Disseminated molluscum contagiosum lesions in an HIV patient
    Telma Azevedo, MD, Alexandre Catarino, MD, Lurdes Ferreira, MD, Fernando Borges, MD and Kamal Mansinho, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2017, 84 (3) 186-187; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16070

    The patient was diagnosed with HIV-related encephalopathy and disseminated Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.

  • Bedbugs: Helping your patient through an infestation
    Bedbugs: Helping your patient through an infestation
    Omer Ibrahim, MD, Usama Mohammad Syed, MBBS, BSc and Kenneth J. Tomecki, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2017, 84 (3) 207-211; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.15024

    Physicians are often at the forefront in the diagnosis and treatment of bedbug infestation.

  • Bedbugs: Awareness is key
    Whitney A. High, MD, JD, MEng
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2017, 84 (3) 212-213; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.17001

    Bedbugs are back, and they are everywhere. Not all who are bitten have reactions.

  • A 68-year-old man with a blue toe
    Kiyoshi Shikino, MD, PhD, Takahiro Ota, MD, Takanori Uehara, MD, PhD and Masatomi Ikusaka, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2017, 84 (6) 436-437; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16059

    The patient had undergone coronary artery bypass grafting, which caused cholesterol crystal embolism.

  • A dermatosis of pregnancy
    Susana Brás, MD, André Oliveira, MD, Pedro Mendes-Bastos, MD and Cristina Amaro, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2017, 84 (6) 440-441; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16088

    Eight days after giving birth, a 33-year-old woman presented with pruritic erythematous papules and plaques on the abdomen.

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