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Purple-red nodule on right cheek

Painful facial abscess

Author:
Jeremiah Moon, MD
Susan A. Piggott, MD, MPH
Morteza Khodaee, MD, MPH

Any case of a chronic nonhealing lesion of the face should include this condition in the differential.

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Erythematous left elbow with swollen, fluctuating soft tissue

Painful, swollen elbow

Author:
Morteza Khodaee, MD, MPH
Stephen Spadafore, MD
Jack Spittler, MD, MS

Was a recent procedure responsible for this patient’s pain?

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A lump on the hip

Author:
Morteza Khodaee, MD, MPH
Seth Mathern, MD
Wendy S. Madigosky, MD, MSPH
Jonathan T. Bravman, MD

The patient had fallen on his hip while playing basketball about 2 weeks earlier.

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Mildly pruritic palmar rash

Author:
Amanda Gawin, MD
Corey Lyon, DO
Morteza Khodaee, MD, MPH

After taking azithromycin and prednisone for lower respiratory symptoms, this patient developed a rash. The way it spread provided a diagnostic...

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Painless cutaneous nodules

Author:
Morteza Khodaee, MD, MPH

The lesions on the patient’s body were getting caught on his clothes. He said that his mother and several of his siblings had similar “lumps.”

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What is the best way to treat Morton’s neuroma?

Author:
Kent Schreiber, MD
Morteza Khodaee, MD, MPH
Sourav Poddar, MD
Elizabeth M. Tweed, MLIS

EVIDENCE-BASED ANSWER: NO SINGLE TREATMENT HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED in the literature. That said, a protocol of stepped care that showed good results...

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