Imaging

  • Abdominal pain under immunosuppressive conditions
    Takayo Ota, MD, PhD, Masanobu Nakano, MSc, Noriko Tanaka, MD, Tomohiro Suzumura, MD, PhD, Nozomi Miyatake, BPharm, Yoshikazu Hasegawa, MD, PhD, Tomohiro Ozaki, MD, Hiroshi Tsukuda, MD and Masahiro Fukuoka, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2016, 83 (12) 874-875; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.15143

    A cancer patient receiving corticosteroids for a brain metastasis developed emphysematous cystitis and psoas muscle abscess.

  • Left ventricular thrombosis can still complicate acute myocardial infarction
    Left ventricular thrombosis can still complicate acute myocardial infarction
    Muhammad Umer Tariq, MD, Ali M. Tariq, MD, Carmela D. Tan, MD, E. Rene Rodriguez, MD and Venu Menon, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2016, 83 (11) 819-826; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.14078

    Despite revascularization, the next day the patient had an ejection fraction of 35% and a mass in the left ventricle.

  • Fibromuscular dysplasia: Advances in understanding and management
    Ellen K. Brinza, MS and Heather L. Gornik, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2016, 83 (11 suppl 2) S45-S51; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83.s2.06
  • There may be zebras running with the horses
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2016, 83 (10) 697-702; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83b.10016

    Common diseases are indeed common, but patients with less-common ones do fi nd their way into our practices.

  • Air leakage in multiple compartments after endoscopy
    Amanda Grippen Goddard, DO, Bryan McConomy, MD, Girish Bathla, MBBS, FRCR, Muhammad Furqan, MBBS and William B. Silverman, MD, FACG, FASGE, AGAF
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2016, 83 (10) 705-707; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.15168

    An attempt to cannulate the common bile duct led to abdominal pain and distention and crepitus of the right chest wall.

  • Nonatherosclerotic limb ischemia: Prompt evaluation and diagnosis
    Nonatherosclerotic limb ischemia: Prompt evaluation and diagnosis
    John C. Eun, MD, William R. Hiatt, MD and Natalia O. Glebova, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2016, 83 (10) 741-751; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.15102

    Symptoms of ischemia may be difficult to recognize in younger patients, thus delaying diagnosis.

  • ‘Air-raising’: An air-fluid level in the right subphrenic region
    Anupam Gupta, MD and Oleg Epelbaum, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2016, 83 (9) 638-640; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.15162

    Plain chest radiography showed dramatic elevation of the right hemidiaphragm with a large subphrenic air-fl uid level.

  • Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome as a complication of molar pregnancy
    Kinan Alhalabi, Brooke S. Lampl, DO and Gerald Behr, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2016, 83 (7) 504-506; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.15036

    An 18-year-old woman, 14 weeks pregnant, presented with bleeding, cramping, and a fundal height of 23 cm.

  • Multiple linear subcutaneous nodules
    Gitesh U. Sawatkar, MD, Dipankar De, MD, Uma Nahar Saikia, MD and Sanjeev Handa, MD, FRCP (EDIN)
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2016, 83 (6) 414-416; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.15058

    A 34-year-old woman has an asymptomatic swelling on her foot that has been slowly growing for 15 years.

  • When does chest CT require contrast enhancement?
    Camila Piza Purysko, MD, Rahul Renapurkar, MD and Michael A. Bolen, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2016, 83 (6) 423-426; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.15037

    It may be needed in cases of suspected cancer or thoracovascular disease.

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