Meeting
Abstract Number: 528
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 24 year-old woman with history of breast cancer status post mastectomy and adjuvant chemoradiation therapy presented with one week of fevers and cervical lymph node enlargement. On presentation, she was febrile with a temperature of 38.7⁰C. Physical exam was notable for tender, firm, bilateral posterior cervical chain lymphadenopathy up to 1cm. WBC […]
Abstract Number: 589
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 19 year old female presented to the student clinic with fevers up to 103 degrees F recurring daily over a period of weeks. She endorsed diffuse body aches and nausea/vomiting. Two years prior, she was diagnosed with Kikuchi disease, a benign self-limited lymphadenitis, following a lymph node biopsy in Bangladesh. Symptoms at […]
Abstract Number: 804
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 43-year-old Japanese man without significant past medical history presented with one month of progressive malaise, fevers, chills, and swollen, painful lymph nodes on the right side of his neck. Prior to coming to our hospital, he was seen in an emergency department and was given a course of penicillin for presumed adenitis […]