Imaging
- Breast cancer risk evaluation for the primary care physician
The authors offer a systematic approach to the assessment and management of patients at risk of breast cancer.
- Soft tissue sarcoma: Recognizing a rare disease
Awareness of the signs and symptoms ensures prompt referral to a sarcoma center for appropriate assessment and treatment to optimize outcomes.
- Extraosseous calcification in kidney disease
A review of the pathogenesis, presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of vascular and soft tissue calcifi cation.
- A painful mass in the jaw
The patient presented with a painful mass in the left side of her jaw, headache, lockjaw, painful swallowing, night sweats, and unintentional weight loss.
- Cardiac considerations in liver transplantation
Today’s transplant patients are older and more likely to have cardiac comorbidities, and effects of advanced liver disease on the circulatory system pose challenges in perioperative management.
- DXA and fracture risk assessment
The following article contained an error: Williams S, Khan L, Licata AA. DXA and clinical challenges of fracture risk assessment in primary care. Cleve Clin J Med 2021; 88(11):615–622. doi:10.3949/ccjm.88a.20199
- Metronidazole-induced encephalopathy: Symmetrical hyperintensity on imaging
The diagnosis should be based on a combination of the patient’s clinical history, laboratory findings, and imaging results.
- Exanthem and enanthem with fever and dyspnea
The patient presented with high fever, productive cough, dyspnea, generalized myalgias, conjunctivitis, and whitish elevations with an erythematous base on the buccal mucosa.
- DXA and clinical challenges of fracture risk assessment in primary care
Overdependence on dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry, especially for patient populations the test was not designed for, may lead to poor clinical decisions.
- Spontaneous coronary artery dissection: Principles of management
Once thought to be rare, it is increasingly recognized as a common cause of acute coronary syndrome, particularly in young women.