Volume 44 - Issue 3 - March 2004

Consultant

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Raymond T. Kuwahara
A 32-year-old African American man presented with an asymptomatic rash of 10 years’ duration. The patient reported that eruption abated during the winter.
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Robert P. Blereau, MD
Large, reddish tan, asymptomatic patches recently developed on the trunk of a 36-year-old man.
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David I. Wolf
Ten weeks before presentation, this 55-year-old woman noticed decreased sensation in her feet and a bluish discoloration of her toes.
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COPD
COPD
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Thomas L. Petty, MD
Anxiety is a common and troubling symptom in many patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
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Joe R. Monroe, PA-C, MPAS, PA
For several months, a 19-year-old man had asymptomatic hyperpigmented and hypopigmented macules on the right volar forearm.
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Joe R. Monroe, PA-C, MPAS, PA
A palpable papulosquamous, arciform chronic eruption had been present in a 70-year-old man for many years. The asymptomatic rash was in a “mantle” distribu
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Shanon D. Smith
For several months, a 70-year-old woman had had dysphagia, mild dyspnea on exertion, and the Raynaud phenomenon.
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Gavin I. Awerbuch
A 76-year-old woman complained of progressive proximal muscle weakness; achy pain in the buttocks, thighs, and calves; and lilac discoloration of her eyeli
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Gastroenterology
Gastroenterology
04/30/2011
John Godino, CPT, MD
After a biopsy of the small bowel, a woman was discovered to have villous blunting, crypt hyperplasia, and other symptoms consistent with celiac disease.
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Yelva L. Lynfield, MD; Jessica Krant, MD, MPH
A 65-year-old woman, who was confined to a wheelchair because of severe rheumatoid arthritis, was concerned about nodules that had erupted on her fingers and hands during the...
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Sonia Arunabh Talwar, MD
Bilateral swelling and pain in the distal interphalangeal (DIP) joints for several months brought this 65-year-old woman to her physician.
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Leslie 'Les' Trope, MD; Eric Capulla; Avi Trope
Extreme synovial inflammation resulted in the articular degradation seen in the hands of this 40-year-old woman (A, B) who has Still disease, or juvenile rheumatoid a
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Paul J. Lee, MD
During the past week, a rash on the right thumb and forefinger of a 4-year-old boy has progressed to involve the entire arm.
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