Case of the Month

July 2001
A 35 year-old woman with dyspnea.

June 2001
A 56-year-old woman with gross hematuria for three days and history of Coumadin and heparin administration for previous cerebrovascular accident.

May 2001
Three cropped mediolateral oblique mammograms of three different patients with the same disease. The patient in Figure 2 has a reddened nipple but is otherwise asymptomatic.

April 2001
32 year-old female with headache and visual problems

March 2001
74 year-old Hispanic male with history of myelodysplasia and pancytopenia. Presents with five days of vomiting, diarrhea, and right lower quadrant pain.

February 2001
18 year old female patient presents with history of fever over 6 weeks duration, recent episodes of generalized convulsions.

December 2000 / January 2001
62 year old woman with history of "burning" sensation in the epigastrium

November 2000
A 33-year-old female patient transferred for the further evaluation of a renal mass with a one month history of right flank pain.

October 2000
31-year-old female with history of left facial swelling adjacent to nose.

August 2000 / September 2000
Two separate patients complaining of wrist pain without recent trauma.

July 2000
81 year old woman who presents for mammography complaining of increase in size of the right breast over four weeks; now four times its normal size.

May 2000 / June 2000
74-year old male with a history of diabetes mellitus complaining of weight loss and diarrhea.

March 2000/April 2000
32 year-old female with headache and visual problems

February 2000
45-year-old white male admitted to E.R. with 24 hour history of left lower quadrant pain which was sudden in onset and associated with nausea…

January 2000
14-year-old male with history of headaches for several months.

December 1999
26 year-old female with soft tissue swelling, joint pain and stiffness in the right hand.