Before you read the answer, you may want to review the initial Mystery Quiz posted last week.
Commentary by Andrew Hardie MD, Fellow, NYU Department of Radiology
Although this patient’s symptoms were not the most typical of this entity, the CT findings in this case are diagnostic of a perforated anterior duodenal …
Commentary by Mary Vouyiouklis MD, Fellow, and Ann Danoff MD, Director, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, NYU Medical Center
Welcome to our special diabetes series intended to highlight the essentials of diabetes …
Commentary by Josh Olstein MD, Associate Editor, Clinical Correlations
This week, the most popular health-care related story in the lay press was the news about Medicare’s plan to no longer cover the additional …
Commentary by Cara Litvin MD, Executive Editor, Clinical Correlations
I frowned as my patient handed over some papers to me at a regularly scheduled follow-up clinic visit. For the second time in a row, he …
A 46 year old male with a past medical history of hypertension presents to the emergency room complaining of constant throbbing epigastric pain for one day. He rates the pain as 7/10, with some radiation to his chest. He reports some mild nausea, but denies diarrhea or constipation. He does endorse a bloated sensation for the …
Commentary by Jacqueline Friedman, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology, Director, New York Region Veterans Administration Multiple Sclerosis Center of Excellence
Multiple sclerosis (MS), a chronic disease of the central nervous system, is …
Commentary By: Neil Shapiro, M.D. Editor-in-Chief Clinical Correlations
As summer winds down and the weather prematurely cools off, this weeks shortcuts finds us focusing on the genetics of coumadin treatment, the very controversial …
Commentary by Rosemary Adamson, PGY2, Deena Altman PGY-1 and Harold Horowitz, Professor of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases
Syphilis is back! You know the drill: an 80-something year old man presents with dementia …