Clinical Correlations

The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine


Primecuts – This Week In The Journals

Uncategorized 6 min read

By Grace Huang, MD

Peer Reviewed

Many of us became familiar with the Ebola virus after reading Richard Preston’s fictional thriller, The Hot Zone. However, in recent months, fiction has turned to reality …

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Medical Etymology: Scrofula

Class Act 3 min read

By Sagar S. Mungekar, MD

Peer Reviewed

It was around the 300s BCE when a sow must have had her snout near Mycobacterium intercellularae, an environmental saphrophyte that …

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Primecuts – This Week In the Journals

PrimeCuts 6 min read

By Kimberly Skrobarcek, MD

Peer Reviewed

As the world is seemingly captivated by German’s victory in overtime of the World Cup final game, more and more of our television commercials and advertisements …

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Mystery Quiz- The Answer

Mystery Quiz 2 min read

Vivian Hayashi MD, Robert Smith MD

The answer to the mystery quiz is rhabdomyolysis due to legionella pneumonia (LP). The presentation of the patient, namely severe rhabdomyolysis complicated by acute kidney injury, obscured the presence of a subtle retrocardiac density that is visible on the CXR (Image 2, asterisk). …

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