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What's the Take Home?
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What's the Take Home?
A 70-Year-Old Man With Severe Hand Pain, Part 1
05/20/2025

Ronald N. Rubin, MD1,2 —Series Editor

Ronald N. Rubin, MD1,2 —Series E...
A 70-year-old man presents to urgent care for severe pain of the right hand. The only trauma he recalled was a small scratch and puncture wound that occurred 2 to 3 days prior.
05/20/2025
What's the Take Home?
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What's the Take Home?
A 70-Year-Old Man With Severe Hand Pain, Part 2
08/07/2024
Ronald N. Rubin, MD
Last month’s What’s the Take Home? article described the case of a 70-year-old man who presented to urgent care for severe pain of the right hand. Necrotizing fasciitis was suspected, prompting surgical...
08/07/2024
Photoclinic
Mucormycosis
Photoclinic
Small Bowel Perforation Caused By Disseminated Mucormycosis
01/29/2023
A 33-year-old postpartum woman presented to our emergency department with dyspnea, orthopnea, and generalized abdominal pain and distention for 2 days. She had been having trouble breathing at rest and had...
01/29/2023
Photoclinic
Limited Joint Mobility Syndrome
Photoclinic
Limited Joint Mobility Syndrome
04/22/2022
A 42-year-old woman presented with a 1-year history of progressive hand pain manifested by stiffness, fullness of the digits, tight skin, and an inability to fully flex the digits. Her symptoms affected the...
04/22/2022
What's Your Diagnosis?
What's Your Diagnosis?
A Neonate With a Protruding Umbilicus
08/05/2021
A 2-week-old girl had been born to a 28-year-old gravida 2, para 1 mother at 39 weeks of gestation following normal spontaneous vaginal delivery. The mother was concerned that the umbilicus of the infant...
08/05/2021
Photoclinic
Photoclinic
Mycobacterium abscessus Surgical Wound Infection Following Abdominoplasty in the Dominican Republic
07/28/2021
A 45-year-old woman with severe obesity presented for evaluation after having undergone abdominoplasty in the Dominican Republic approximately 8 weeks prior.
07/28/2021
Wounds
Wounds
Wound Bed Preparation
06/07/2012
Sharon A. Aronovitch, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, CWOCN-AP
When wounds become chronic—ie, have not proceeded expediently through the four stages of healing and/or have languished for 3 months or more, usually “stuck” in the inflammatory or proliferative phase—a...
06/07/2012
Wounds
Wounds
Assessing and Managing a Moist Wound Environment
03/12/2012
Chronic wounds are notorious for copious exudate production. Too much exudate can inhibit wound repair and cause periwound maceration because chronic wound fluid can break down extracellular matrix proteins...
03/12/2012
Primary Care
Primary Care
Suturing and Wound Closure: How to Achieve Optimal Healing
04/27/2011
D. Brady Pregerson, MD
Although many lacerations are treated in the emergency department, primary care clinicians still see their share of such wounds.
04/27/2011
Primary Care
Primary Care
Suturing and Wound Closure, Part 3: Wound Repair in Special Areas
04/27/2011
Caring for and closing wounds in certain areas involve additional risks and require special techniques. Wounds to the hands and feet—and anywhere on the head, including the scalp, face, and lips—can be...
04/27/2011