Imaging
- Recognizing a retirement, and a calcium deposition syndrome
Personnel changes at CCJM, and underrecognition of calcium deposition in the cervical spine.
- Crowned dens syndrome: Caution about asymptomatic calcification
An 88-year-old man developed fever, headache, and posterior neck pain resistant to initial therapy.
- Calcium pyrophosphate deposition and crowned dens syndrome
Patients are typically over age 65, often with significant leukocytosis and dramatically elevated inflammatory markers.
- Puffy hand syndrome
A 37-year-old man visited the rheumatology clinic for evaluation of swelling of his fingers and hands.
- Median arcuate ligament syndrome: Incidental finding or real problem?
A woman was admitted with pain in the epigastrium and right upper quadrant that radiated to the back, as well as nausea and dry heaves.
- Median arcuate ligament syndrome: A clinical dilemma
Patients with chronic abdominal pain can benefit from a multidisciplinary evaluation.
- A cutaneous clue to HIV infection
A retired trucker presented with fever, cough, dyspnea, and a rash on his forehead.
- All that wheezes…
All that wheezes is not asthma, but it is airway obstruction of one kind or another.