Case Presentation: An otherwise healthy 31 years old Brazilian male presented to the hospital with two months history of constitutional symptoms, diffuse pruritic rash on torso and extremities, and diffuse lymphadenopathy. He lived with his wife and daughter, and most recent travel to Brazil was three months ago. His father has diabetes and mother died [...]

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 [...]

Case Presentation: A 26 year-old Ecuadorian woman presented with 3 months of enlarging neck masses.  A few years prior to presentation, she noticed small lumps on the right side of her neck, which were stable and asymptomatic until 3 months prior to arrival, when they began to grow in size and became painful. These symptoms [...]

Case Presentation: The patient is a 38-year-old Caucasian female who was diagnosed with Stage IIIb malignant melanoma. The excision of the left scapular lesion and axillary dissection was performed. Baseline 18F-FDG PET scan showed no evidence of metastatic disease. After the 5th cycle of Nivolumab treatment, the patient developed 38 ºC fever and grade 2 [...]

Case Presentation: A previously healthy 20-year-old presented with 5 days of fevers and diffuse abdominal pain. Her exam was notable for tachycardia to 118/min, fever of 103F with marked abdominal tenderness. Her laboratory results were significant for leukopenia (3.7 K/uL), anemia (9.2 g/dL), elevated D-dimer to 2.98 ug/ml, CRP of 56.33 mg/L, and troponin of [...]

Case Presentation: Twenty-two-year-old female with history of asthma presented to Emergency Department with recurrent fevers (101-103F) and tachycardia since June 13, 2023. Patient saw her PCP on 6/10, for fever, tachycardia and abdominal pain and started on Cefdinir for possible sinusitis which she started taking yesterday. Patient had associated non-specific diffused abdominal pain, back pain, [...]

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 [...]

Case Presentation: A 37-year-old woman from Ghana presented to the hospital with a week duration of myalgias, right-sided neck pain, and right-sided neck swelling that she noticed three days before the admission. Physical examination was only positive for non-pulsatile, mobile swelling in the right anterior lower neck along the sternocleidomastoid. Labs were unremarkable, except for [...]