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What's Your Diagnosis?
Fig. 2. Posterior left arm
What's Your Diagnosis?
An Unbothersome Rash
10/27/2025
Timothy Layne Counce, Jr., DO, MS; Jennifer Haile, MD; Brooke Bohn, MD
A 3 year-year-old previously healthy boy presents with a rash that abruptly appeared on his bilateral cheeks, upper arms, buttocks and extending slightly to his lower back and bilateral legs.
10/27/2025
Photoclinic
Initial CT scan showing hepatic abscess
Photoclinic
Amoebic Liver Abscess: Case Report and Updates to Management
10/04/2025
Fatema Dabdoub, MD; Haneen AbdelKhaleq, DO; Victoria Udezi, MD; Zaiba Jetpuri, DO; Nora Gimpel, MD
A 56-year-old man presented to the emergency department of a large academic hospital in Dallas, TX with sudden onset abdominal pain the night prior to presentation.
10/04/2025
What's The Take Home?
woman with abdominal pain
What's The Take Home?
A 47-Year-Old Woman With Acute Abdominal Pain
09/22/2025
Ronald N. Rubin, MD
A previously healthy 47-year-old woman presents to an urgent care facility with chief complaint of acute abdominal pain.
09/22/2025
photoclinic
button battery xray
photoclinic
Early Recognition and Management of Lithium Battery Ingestion in a 15-Month-Old
07/07/2025

Anna Yoon, OMS IV1 • Yuna Seo, OMS II1 • Joy Zarandy, DO2

Anna Yoon, OMS IV1 • Yuna Seo, OMS II...
A 15-month-old boy was brought to an urgent care center by his father for suspected ingestion of a button battery.
07/07/2025
Case in Point
Case in Point
Case in Point
Considering Prediabetes as a Risk Factor for Infectious Complications Following Transrectal Prostate Biopsy
05/29/2025
Nicole Peritz, OMS-IV; Joy Ishii Zarandy, DO, FAAFP, DABFM
A 66-year-old man presented to the emergency department with sudden onset fever, chills, and profound malaise approximately 36 hours after undergoing an uncomplicated transrectal prostate biopsy.
05/29/2025
What's Your Diagnosis?
What's Your Diagnosis?
What Is Causing Vomiting in a 5-Month-Old Infant?
05/12/2025
A 5-month-old infant was brought to the emergency department with vomiting and concerns for reflux. He was a full-term infant born by C-section due to failure to progress, with a birth weight of 3.3 kg. ...
05/12/2025
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figure 1
photoclinic
Chylothorax and Respiratory Failure Following Spontaneous Vaginal Delivery in a Patient with Pre-Eclampsia
05/11/2025
Bruno Hochhegger, MD, PhD; U. George McCann, III, BS; Ali Mirza, BS, MPH; Michael Mathelier, BS; Scotty McGaugh, BA; Kevin Pierre, MD; Ralph Tullo, MD; Yazeed Fraij, DO; Hugh Davis, MD
A 37-year-old gravida two para one woman at 35 weeks and 3 days of gestation presented to labor and delivery triage with a two-day history of gestational hypertension, headaches, and visual disturbances. ...
05/11/2025
PHOTOCLINIC
Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae Sternoclavicular Joint Septic Arthritis
PHOTOCLINIC
Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae Sternoclavicular Joint Septic Arthritis
05/09/2025
A 71-year-old man presented to our emergency department with worsening right shoulder pain over the past month and new-onset right upper chest pain. He had a medical history significant for right shoulder...
05/09/2025
Case in point
Bacteria
Case in point

Type F Botulism Due to Clostridium baratii
04/09/2025
Emily Penrose, MS; Kerry Ohlson, RN, BSN; Kristine Voos, BS, CHES; Brenden A. Bedard, MPH; Paul A. Petit, MSL
This paper summarizes a case of botulism in a 69-year-old man caused by Clostridium baratii (C. baratii) type F toxin and the resultant investigation conducted at a local health department. The case is...
04/09/2025
What's Your Diagnosis?
Image 1
What's Your Diagnosis?
A Landscaper's Nodular Skin Lesions and Painful, Swollen Joints
04/01/2025
Kashif Memon, MD; Kerry O. Cleveland, MD; Furqan Tarique Memon, MBBS
A 32-year-old man from northern Mexico who worked as a landscaper presented to the emergency department with a 4-month history of increasing pain and swelling of his left wrist and fingers as well as raised...
04/01/2025