A Painful Swollen Calf

Combined phlebography and arthrography in patients with painful swollen calf.

A woman with a painful and swollen hand.

A painful and swollen right breast in a young male.

A 33-yr-old, Caucasian male, smoker (40 pack-yr) presented to the current authors9 hospital complaining of a painful and swollen right breast, which had already lasted a few weeks. He had poor oral hygiene, had been subject to several teeth extractions over the previous 2 yrs and had sporadically used oral antibiotics. He denied fever, cough and shortness of breath or weight loss. The chest phy...

A man with swollen calf and discoloration of the foot.

Unilateral painful, swollen and erythematosus knee. Case report.

Musculoskeletal ultrasound (US) is gaining an increasing role in the assessment of a variegate set of joint and periarticular soft tissues abnormalities in rheumatology. In addition, US represents a useful technique in guiding local procedures such as aspiration of fluid collections and injections within the joints and periarticular musculoskeletal structures. We recently performed US in a pati...