Oncology
- Polypoid melanoma mistaken for verruca vulgaris
Polypoid melanoma is highly aggressive and often misdiagnosed.
- Should women with HPV-related noncervical cancers be considered at high risk for cervical cancer?
Yes. Lacking guidelines, close surveillance is prudent.
- The HPV vaccine: Understanding and addressing barriers to vaccination
Key steps include optimizing clinician-patient communication.
- Firm lesion on the lateral thigh
A 41-year-old man presented with concern about a lesion he had first noticed 6 years earlier.
- Cutaneous adverse effects of biologic medications
These therapies have revolutionized medicine but come with many unique adverse effects.
- Constitutional symptoms, pathologic PET-CT
PET-CT showed diffuse hypermetabolism of the great vessel walls, compatible with large-vessel giant cell arteritis.
- Trousseau syndrome
Examination revealed multiple bluish macules and 2 palpable thrombosed superficial veins in the right popliteal fossa.
- Can I use direct oral anticoagulants to treat cancer-associated venous thromboembolism?
DOACs are increasingly replacing low-molecular-weight heparins for this purpose.
- Leukoplakia of the tongue
This potentially premalignant lesion is found mostly in middle-aged and older men who smoke.