A 61-year-old man with livedo reticularis

Low grade fever, back pain and livedo reticularis in a 60-year-old man.

Livedo reticularis with ulcerations.

Idiopathic livedo reticularis may be associated with ulcerations of the lower extremities beginning primarily during the warmer or summer months, as well as the more usual occurrence of winter ulcerations. Summer ulceration apparently is a new and rare entity which has many clinical and histopathologic features similar to winter ulcerations. Hypertension, Raynaud's phenomena, acrocyanosis and t...

A 76-year-old male with a blue toe and livedo reticularis.

A 61-year-old man with asymptomatic, bilateral lung masses.

The Clinical Case of the month is a regular educational feature presented by the Louisiana State University Department of Medicine. Medical students, residents, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty collaborate in the preparation of these manuscripts. After reading this article, physicians should be better able to: 1) Increase awareness of the incidence and types of opportunistic infections which m...

A 61-Year-Old Man with Nonresolving Pneumonia and Bronchorrhea

A 61-year-old man presented to his primary care physician with progressive dyspnea on exertion that was associated with persistent dry cough for 1 week. On review of systems, he denied fever and chills. The patient’s past medical history was significant for sarcoidosis diagnosed 20 years ago following lymph node biopsy. At that time, he recovered without complications. The patient also experien...