Chronic meningococcemia presenting with recurrent painful rash and poly-arthralgia without fever

Fever, diffuse rash and arthralgia.

Recurrent fever, arthralgia and asymmetric genu varum of unexpected etiology

Introduction Congenital syphilis is still a public health issue worldwide. Beyond the neonatal period, clinical findings may be subtle and nonspecific. We report an unusual case of congenital syphilis with recurrent fever, knee pain and severe anemia in a 28 month-old boy, despite standard penicillin treatment early in life. Congenital syphilis should be considered throughout early childhood, e...

Metastatic breast cancer presenting as fever, rash, and arthritis.

BACKGROUND Fever can be the presenting symptom of metastatic breast carcinoma, but the combination of fever, polyarthritis, and an erythematous rash as a paraneoplastic syndrome in breast carcinoma is very rare. METHODS The clinical course of a 49-year-old female with a history of ductal breast carcinoma who presented with fever of unknown origin, polyarthritis, and an erythematous rash is de...

A man with intermittent fever and arthralgia.

Case report A 44 year old, previously healthy, white man, who was a milk depot manager, was referred to a general physician in November 1991 with a 16 month history of febrile episodes, lasting for three or four days, which recurred approximately every six weeks. During the episodes his temperature rose to 40°C, he felt flu-like and had aching limbs and profuse night sweats. He had no other sym...

A Painful, Blistering Rash

Supervising Section Editor: Sean O. Henderson, MD Submission history: Submitted July 1, 2013; Accepted July 15, 2013 Electronically published October 9, 2013 Full text available through open access at http://escholarship.org/uc/uciem_westjem DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2013.7.18845 [West J Emerg Med. 2013;14(6):645.] David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Department of ...