Inflammation

A 68-year-old woman with a medical history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and hypothyroidism presented to the emergency department with a decrease in vision bilaterally, more on the right side, for 4...

A previously healthy 9-year-old boy developed acute upper left quadrant and epigastric abdominal pain, nonbloody nonbilious vomiting, and decreased oral intake.

A 25-year-old woman with no past medical history presented to the dermatology clinic with abrupt onset of an asymptomatic, reddish, inverted-U-shaped papulosquamous skin eruption that started 3 weeks...

A 74-year-old man with a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease presented to the emergency department reporting hoarseness of his voice and difficulty eating 2 days prior to his hospital...

A 13-year-old boy presented to his pediatrician’s office with a 1-day history of left hip pain. The patient reported that he felt a sharp pain in his anterior left hip while running, causing him to limp. He...

A 54-year-old woman presented to an outpatient office for recurrent erythema and tenderness of the right lower eyelid and cheek. She was not taking any medications, and her health was excellent. She denied...

A 67-year-old woman presented with neck and shoulder discomfort for nearly a month. The patient felt pain in her neck and shoulders with subacute onset about once a week. She called her primary physician...

A 31-year-old woman with history of opiate use disorder (OUD) presented to her primary care physician with persistent salivary gland swelling for 1 week and a history of periodic salivary gland swelling for...

A 31-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with 3 days of nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain, and 2 days of diarrhea. The vomitus consisted of food particles but did not contain blood. Her...

This article is part of a series describing and differentiating dermatologic lumps and bumps. In Part 38, Leung and colleagues describe lichen striatus. To access previously published articles in the...