Jia Huang
Faculty peer reviewed
A 46 year-old Asian female presented with recurrent pruritic erythematous papules in a partially linear pattern over her forearms, face, and trunk. Each papule measured about 3/4 inch in …
Category: Systems
Clinical Correlations
Zinc Cold Remedies: Are They Safe and Effective–Who Nose?
February 11, 2010
Amanda Benkoff
Faculty peer reviewed
Each year doctors are presented with the dilemma of the common cold. Adults in the U.S. experience an average of 3 colds per year, …
Oldies but Goodies: How should you approach a low titer +RPR?
February 5, 2010Please enjoy a post from the Clinical Correlations Archives, first posted November 28, 2006…
45 year old male with a history of Hepatitis B ( Hep B Surf Ag + but Hep …
Dix-Hallpike Positive, No Red Flags, Now What?
January 23, 2010
The Proper Diagnosis and Treatment of Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo
Carly Oboudiyat
Faculty peer reviewed
You finally have the “dizzy” patient whose eyes actually beat torsionally upwards when you do …
Chief of Service Rounds: Should You Always Stop Anticoagulating a Bleeding Patient?
January 20, 2010
Chief-of-service rounds is a new feature of Clinical Correlations. Here we summarize Bellevue Hospital’s Chief of Service Rounds moderated by the Chief of Medicine, Nate Link, MD. This multidisciplinary bimonthly conference focuses on a case …
How Do You Advise the Balding Patient?
January 13, 2010
Sagar Mungekar
Faculty Peer Reviewed
The incidence of male pattern hair loss can reach almost 100% in some ethnic groups.1, 2 While treatment of the condition is usually deferred to …
Some gleanings from the meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) in Philadelphia, October 29-November 1. 2009
January 6, 2010
Neal H. Steigbigel, M.D.
The recent IDSA meeting reviewed many important and interesting findings. Topics spanned a wide array of subjects, many of which are of importance and interest to all physicians. These subjects …
Tailoring Colon Cancer Screening
December 19, 2009
Guidelines for Colorectal Cancer Screening and the Recent Evidence Behind Them
Nazia Hasan, MD MPH
Faculty peer reviewed
For most residents, screening for colorectal cancer (CRC) may seem as established as that for breast and cervical cancer. In reality, the use of CRC …