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What Is This Rash on an Older Man’s Groin?
12/28/2023
A 62-year-old man presented to our dermatology clinic with several-year history of a groin rash. It had waxed and waned over the years, with occasional episodes of associated pruritis elicited by periods of...
12/28/2023
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Staphylococcus lugdunensis
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Staphylococcus lugdunensis Infection of the Bilateral Axillaries
11/29/2023

Ethan Loftspring, BS1 • Karen Cuartas, BS2 • Brandon Hood, MD3 • Doris Lin, MD, MS4

Ethan Loftspring, BS1 • Karen Cuartas, BS2 • Brandon Hood, MD3 • Doris Lin, MD, MS4 ...
A 29-year-old woman who had received a diagnosis of hidradenitis suppurativa 5 years ago presented to our clinic with a fever and bilateral axillary pain.
11/29/2023
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Shigellosis Presenting with Myocarditis
09/15/2023

Monarch Shah, MD1 • Farrah Alarmanazi, MS42 • Aquib Gani, MS42

Monarch Shah, MD1 • Farrah Alarmanazi, MS42 • Aquib Gani, MS42
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...
09/15/2023
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sphingobacterium case
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Sphingobacterium multivorum in the Setting of Hypoxic Respiratory Failure Due to Bilateral Pneumonia and Septicemia
09/05/2023
A 91-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a 3-day history fever, chills, and nonproductive cough.
09/05/2023
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Cat-Scratch Disease Presenting as Fever of Unknown Origin
08/31/2023
A 34-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a 4-week history of daily fevers, myalgia, headache, cough, vomiting, and diarrhea. She had a medical history significant for migraines,...
08/31/2023
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Case In Point
Streptococcus agalactiae Meningitis Presenting as a Seizure
08/11/2023
A 60-year-old man presented to our emergency department with a 1-week history of cough, dyspnea, and lower extremity edema. His medical history was significant for alcoholic cirrhosis, type 2 diabetes, and...
08/11/2023
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Supraclavicular Lymphadenopathy as the Presenting Feature of Disseminated Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
07/18/2023

Matthew Nemoy, DO, PGY-41 • Jalal Damani, DO2 • Craig Backous, DO3

 

Matthew Nemoy, DO, PGY-41 • Jalal Damani, DO2 • Craig Backous, DO3  
A 64-year-old woman with diaphoresis presented to a community medical center following 2 days of pain due to a lump on the left side of her neck.
07/18/2023
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EGD showing nonbleeding varices in the middle-third region of the esophagus.
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Terrisporobacter glycolicus Bacteremia in a Patient With Cirrhosis
07/16/2023

Monarch Shah, MD1 • Waleed Ahmed Mir, MD1 • Oluwatofunmi Olowoyo2 • Sanya Chandna, MD1

Monarch Shah, MD1 • Waleed Ahmed Mir, MD1 • Oluwatofunmi Olowoyo2 • Sanya Chandna, MD1 ...
Terrisporobacter is an anaerobic gram-positive bacterium causing infection in postoperative patients, particularly those with comorbidities, and is rarely linked to the disease process itself.
07/16/2023
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Subclinical Pyelonephritis Presenting as Relapsing Fever: A Prodrome in the Development of Chronic Pyelonephritis
07/13/2023
A 36-year-old man presented for evaluation of relapsing fevers. He reported fevers as high as 40 °C and has had 6 such episodes in the past 6 months that have lasted between 2 to 14 days.
07/13/2023
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hip and leg bone diagram
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Chronic Osteomyelitis Caused by Finegoldia magna
07/13/2023
A 26-year-old incarcerated man presented to the emergency department with a complication of osteomyelitis of the left ischium, which had been diagnosed previously.
07/13/2023