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[case_image][/case_image] [case_image_citation] Yang C, Ferree SD, Hawryluk EB, Kourosh AS. [published online July 19, 2019]. Consultant360. [/case_image_citation] [signs_symptoms]An otherwise healthy 11-week-old boy presented with multiple skin abnormalities that had been present since birth. He had...

CDC’s Dr. Manisha Patel describes clinical features of measles, how to diagnose it in a patient, and what to do if you suspect you have a case. [Includes images of children with measles infection.]

[case_image][/case_image] [case_image_citation] Schrom K, Gaul M, Bass J. Consultant. 2018;58(8):223-224. [/case_image_citation] [signs_symptoms]A 90-year-old white woman with poorly differentiated squamous cell lung carcinoma presented for evaluation of a submammary and inguinal rash. The rash...

[case_image][/case_image] [case_image_citation] Mounts A, Peters KM. An erythematous plaque in an 84-year-old woman.. Consultant360. [/case_image_citation] [signs_symptoms]An 84-year-old Filipina with no personal or known family history of skin cancer presented to the dermatology clinic with a lesion...

[case_player][/case_player] The National Science Foundation is providing financial support to a team of biochemists, led by Kent Kirshenbaum, PhD, of New York University, in the quest to create a variety of synthetic proteins that could be utilized at industrial...

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Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is a rare but serious syndrome that causes limb weakness, mostly in children. Most patients have respiratory symptoms or fever consistent with a viral infection less than a week before onset of limb weakness. In 2018, there were 233 confirmed AFM cases. Timing is critical. If...

[case_player][/case_player] Juan Pascual, MD, PhD, and research associates, have spent the last decade searching for a reliable way to predict seizures. The research team has identified the nerve cells that are believed to be the cause of seizures in mice with pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency (PDHD). By...

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