Painful left forearm swelling

A pulsatile swelling on the left forearm

A 69-year-old woman with a history of valve replacement for her aortic stenosis presented with the chief complaint of left arm pain, fever, chills, and fatigue. No recent dental procedures had been performed. However, she had undergone a colonoscopy for gastrointestinal bleeding 2 months prior to this visit. Her physical examination was notable for pyrexia, a left forearm ecchymosis, and a puls...

Painful chest wall swelling.

A 70 year old man, a non-smoker, presented with a painful swelling over the right sternoclavicular joint and low grade continuous fever for a period of two months. The patient had been empirically started on antituberculous therapy on the suspicion of tuberculous osteomyelitis, but his fever and swelling persisted. On clinical examination, a hard and tender swelling was present over the right s...

Swelling Left Medial Canthus

Left Supraclavicular Swelling: Sclerosing Perineurioma.

A sclerosing perineurioma presents as a single asymptomatic papule or nodule located on the hands of adult patients; approximately 60 cases have been reported in medical literature since 1997. Histologically, it originates from the perineural cells of the peripheral nerves and presents epithelial membrane antigen (EMA) positivity and S100 protein negativity. Here, we present the case of a 58-ye...

Leaking rheumatoid olecranon bursitis as a cause of forearm swelling.

A patient with seropositive rheumatoid arthritis and recurrent oedema of the forearm was shown to have a leak from a multilobulated olecranon bursa.