Rheumatology

Hydralazine was introduced as an antihypertensive agent in the early 1950s and was quickly found to induce systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).

A collection of cases of disorders involving the knees.

A 9-year-old girl with no significant past medical history presented to the emergency department with a 6-month history of pain in her right knee and hip. She recalls that the pain had started in her right...

A 55-year-old African American woman reported several months of back pain, bilateral joint stiffness, and pain in her fingers and wrists. Swelling in the ankles and shins had also developed.

Three days after the acute onset of pain and swelling of the second toe of his right foot, a 63-year-old man seeks medical care. He denies any trauma.

A 67-year-old man presented for evaluation of atrophy of the left thenar eminence that had developed within the past 2 weeks. He denied hand weakness.