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<乌鸦传媒>Strange Asymptomatic Rash Affects Young Man With Obesity for 2 Years

Diagnosis implicates high triglycerides as a contributor

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<乌鸦传媒>Patient's Colonoscopy Refusal Highlights Value of CRC Screening

Man with a first-degree relative with CRC initially only agreed to stool-based testing

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<乌鸦传媒>What Caused a Mysterious Grayish Tongue Plaque in a Healthy Man?

Man presented with irregular gray-white ulcers on the soft palate, uvula, and tonsils

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<乌鸦传媒>Diagnosing Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Do At-Home Testing Devices Measure Up?

Home test showed 52 apnea-hypopnea events per hour in woman with high blood pressure, weight gain

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<乌鸦传媒>Woman Seeks Answers After 3 Years of Painful Genital Ulcers

Histopathology reveals a disease most often seen in young children

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<乌鸦传媒>Why Is a Fit Swimmer Breathless and Coughing Up Blood?

Case highlights a little-known, potentially dangerous, often recurrent condition of swimmers

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<乌鸦传媒>Regular Episodes of Fainting, Stomach Pain Plague Middle-Age Heavy Drinker

Symptoms persisted for 2 years before the patient was admitted to the hospital

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<乌鸦传媒>Jazz Musician With Slowly Expanding Neck Mass Causing Dysphagia

Alcoholism, liver dysfunction highly linked with rare disease of unknown etiology

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<乌鸦传媒>Severe Chest Pain in Newly Diagnosed Colorectal Cancer

Case study illustrates iatrogenic risks not to be underestimated

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<乌鸦传媒>Rare Shark Fin ECG Pattern Seen in 55-Year-Old Patient

Pattern should trigger urgent cardiac catheterization to diagnose or rule out acute STEMI

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<乌鸦传媒>Middle-Age Woman Presents With Very Itchy Annular Papules on Extremities

The rare condition resolved without treatment about 6 months after diagnosis

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<乌鸦传媒>What's Behind Boy's Bullous Skin Lesions After Flu Symptoms?

Mycoplasma pneumonia identified as the culprit in this case of RIME

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<乌鸦传媒>Persistent Lymphadenopathy and Neck Abscesses in a Healthy Boy

Histopathological test results were central to ultimate diagnosis

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<乌鸦传媒>Difficulty Walking, Severe Anxiety Point to Spectrum of Neurological Diagnoses

Cause of ataxia finally found in 55-year-old woman, two decades after symptom onset

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<乌鸦传媒>Persistent Double Vision Follows Insidious Onset of Ptosis in Healthy Man

High-resolution MRI aids in differential diagnosis

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<乌鸦传媒>What Caused Left-Sided Hearing Loss in This 65-Year-Old Man?

Numerous diagnostic procedures revealed tophaceous gout affecting the middle ear

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<乌鸦传媒>Complete Plaque Regression in Peyronie's Disease

Observation of complete plaque regression with multimodal therapy may be a first

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<乌鸦传媒>Woman's Tongue Turns Brown After Course of Antibiotics

Black hairy tongue is diagnosed based on its rapid presentation shortly after starting treatment

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<乌鸦传媒>There's More Than One Way to Treat Lipedema

Surgery may not always be the best option, case report finds

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<乌鸦传媒>What's the Cause of Neck Swelling, Fever in Young Woman?

Diagnosis of this rare disease is often a challenge

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<乌鸦传媒>Teen Seeks Care for Delayed Growth Compared With His Twin

Case shows confluence of hormone therapy cost and limited resources in developing areas

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<乌鸦传媒>Triathlete Seeks Help After Repeated Spells of Heart Palpitations

Sports career/training can trigger Afib

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<乌鸦传媒>Unexplained Catatonia: What's Behind Woman's Sudden Symptoms?

Recent history of insomnia could be a clue

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<乌鸦传媒>What Caused This Otherwise Symptom-Free Woman's Neck Mass?

Case shows possible dangers even in hyperfunctioning "hot versus hypofunctioning "cold nodule

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<乌鸦传媒>What's Causing the Severe Stomach Pain and Vomiting in Teen Pot Smoker?

She is found to have COVID-19, but another serious problem is almost missed

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<乌鸦传媒>Diabetic Man With Sclerosing Mesenteritis Experiences Glycemic Control With Steroids

Case authors report an unexpected paradoxical effect

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<乌鸦传媒>Teen Develops Persistent, Spreading Arm Swelling After a Fall

Is it "just" a hematoma or something more sinister?

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<乌鸦传媒>What's Behind the Mysterious Chest Pain in Bladder Cancer Patient?

Cardiomyopathy risks interrupting cancer treatment, worsening prognosis

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<乌鸦传媒>Did Vaping THC 'Wax' for 5 Days Cause This Teen Girl's Seizure?

Evidence for the effect of THC on seizure threshold is conflicting, clinicians say

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<乌鸦传媒>What to Do With a Rare, Aggressive Bladder Cancer

Case authors lament scant information on treatments or outcomes

A man with his hand to his ear struggles to hear

<乌鸦传媒>What's Behind This Sudden Hearing Loss in Both Ears?

Key to recovery was immediate work-up for one specific condition

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<乌鸦传媒>Why the Sudden Onset of Severe Abdominal Pain, Then a Rash?

Watch out for atypical presentations, clinicians warn