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  • Imaging suggestive, but symptoms atypical
    Mohammad Afzalimoghaddam, MD, Maryam Edalatifard, MD, Shervin Farahmand, MD, Shahram Bagheri-Hariri, MD and Hadi Mirfazaelian, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2017, 84 (1) 25-26; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.15144

    Pseudosubarachnoid hemorrhage is an artifact of CT imaging.

  • A dermatosis of pregnancy
    Susana Brás, MD, André Oliveira, MD, Pedro Mendes-Bastos, MD and Cristina Amaro, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2017, 84 (6) 440-441; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16088

    Eight days after giving birth, a 33-year-old woman presented with pruritic erythematous papules and plaques on the abdomen.

  • Palmar erythema as a sign of cancer
    Michitaka Maekawa, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2017, 84 (9) 666-667; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16114

    Red palms in an elderly patient can be due to a number of systemic diseases.

  • Lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma presenting as retinal hemorrhage
    José Melendez-Rosado, MD, Steven Sears, DO and Fernando Stancampiano, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2017, 84 (1) 20-22; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.15171

    New-onset blurred vision should prompt a comprehensive history and physical examination.

  • Black hairy tongue cured concurrently with respiratory infection
    Fátima Tous-Romero, MD, Sara Burillo-Martínez, MD, Marta Prieto-Barrios, MD and Lidia Maroñas-Jiménez, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2017, 84 (6) 434-435; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16044

    Proposed causes include medications, hyposalivation, poor oral hygiene, smoking, and infection.

  • Ring-enhancing cerebral lesions
    Aram Barbaryan, MD, Jignesh Modi, MD, Wajih Raqeem, MD, Michael I. Choi, MD, Alan Frigy, MD and Aibek E. Mirrakhimov, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2017, 84 (2) 104-110; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16037

    The patient has poorly controlled HIV, seizures, and brain lesions. Is Histoplasma or Toxoplasma the cause of the lesions?

  • A 68-year-old man with a blue toe
    Kiyoshi Shikino, MD, PhD, Takahiro Ota, MD, Takanori Uehara, MD, PhD and Masatomi Ikusaka, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2017, 84 (6) 436-437; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16059

    The patient had undergone coronary artery bypass grafting, which caused cholesterol crystal embolism.

  • Disseminated molluscum contagiosum lesions in an HIV patient
    Telma Azevedo, MD, Alexandre Catarino, MD, Lurdes Ferreira, MD, Fernando Borges, MD and Kamal Mansinho, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2017, 84 (3) 186-187; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16070

    The patient was diagnosed with HIV-related encephalopathy and disseminated Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.

  • Abdominal pain under immunosuppressive conditions
    Takayo Ota, MD, PhD, Masanobu Nakano, MSc, Noriko Tanaka, MD, Tomohiro Suzumura, MD, PhD, Nozomi Miyatake, BPharm, Yoshikazu Hasegawa, MD, PhD, Tomohiro Ozaki, MD, Hiroshi Tsukuda, MD and Masahiro Fukuoka, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2016, 83 (12) 874-875; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.15143

    A cancer patient receiving corticosteroids for a brain metastasis developed emphysematous cystitis and psoas muscle abscess.

  • Minocycline-induced hyperpigmentation
    Mahmoud Abdelghany, MD and Alan J. Kivitz, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2016, 83 (12) 876-877; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.16058

    The patient presented with extensive bluish skin discoloration that had started 1 year earlier as a small area and then spread.

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