Case Presentation: A 38-year-old woman with no significant past medical history presented with fever, diffuse rash, and hypoesthesia. One year prior, the patient developed flesh-colored patches on her abdomen and raised lesions under her left arm. A biopsy revealed cutaneous nontuberculous mycobacterial infection with 4+ acid fast bacilli (AFB) stain, but AFB cultures were negative. [...]

Case Presentation: The patient is a 69-year-old female with hemoglobin S/C disease, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease who presented to the hospital for lower back pain in the setting of a fall. CT scan demonstrated an L1 compression fracture and an incidental finding of cystic lesions in the liver and kidneys. Subsequent MRI demonstrated innumerable [...]

Case Presentation: We present a case of a 22-year-old female with necrotizing lymphadenopathy, later diagnosed with Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD). The patient initially presented with fevers, night sweats, and painful swelling in the left side of her neck progressively worsening over four days. She also reported lightheadedness, a left-sided orbital headache, and a decreased appetite. There [...]

Case Presentation: A 26-year-old man with no significant past medical history presented to medical attention with severe oral mucositis. Approximately one week prior to his presentation, the patient developed symptoms of a respiratory illness with a productive cough, myalgias, and fever of up to 103 Fahrenheit. Although his respiratory symptoms began to improve, he developed [...]

Case Presentation: A 64-year-old male presented to the Emergency Department with fevers, anorexia, flank pain and two months of progressive oral sores diagnosed as refractory oral candidiasis by his outpatient provider. Comorbidities included hypertension and obesity (body-mass-index 70). Labs revealed an elevated white blood cell count (14,000/L). Bilateral pyelonephritis was diagnosed on computed tomography. Broad [...]