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LESSON OF THE MONTH An unusual cause of shoulder pain
A 20 year old man with no significant past medical problems presented with a six week history of gradual onset diVuse left shoulder and scapula pain. Two weeks before the onset of pain he had started work as a builder, performing heavy lifting. There was no history of injury or other precipitant. In the week before presenting, the severity of the pain prevented him from working despite regular ...
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Cellulitis is a common condition and several mimics exist which should be considered in patients who fail to respond to antibiotics. We describe the case of a patient with anaplastic large cell lymphoma masquerading as a lower leg cellulitis. The patient had failed to respond to intravenous antibiotics and a skin biopsy confirmed her diagnosis. She received radical radiotherapy to the lower leg...
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Case history A 73 year old lady was referred with a four week history of proximal muscle weakness, myalgia and an erythematous, oedematous rash aVecting her face, upper chest, and back. Systemic enquiry and general examination was otherwise unremarkable. Initial investigations revealed a normal full blood count, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, C reactive protein, urea and electrolytes, liver fu...
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Takayasu arteritis (TA) is a rare manifestation of systemic large vessel vasculitis which aVects predominantly the aorta and its main branches, but often remains unrecognised owing to delayed diagnosis and non-characteristic clinical features. Sarcoidosis, too, is a systemic inflammatory disease which can aVect virtually any organ system. Reports about the coincidence of both diseases have appe...
متن کاملLesson of the month 2: The limitations of steroid therapy in bradykinin-mediated angioedema attacks.
Acute angioedema attacks are conventionally treated with antihistamines and steroids, in line with a presumed mechanism of disease involving overwhelming mast-cell degranulation. This approach overlooks a small but important minority of cases in which attacks are bradykinin driven and exhibit poor responsiveness to steroid or anti-histamine therapy. These patients may have a family history of a...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1078-5884
DOI: 10.1016/s1078-5884(98)80083-x