Case Presentation: A 45-year-old male with a past medical history of Myelodysplastic Syndrome, Atrial Fibrillation, and Type 2 Diabetes presented for evaluation of worsening diffuse, erythematous, and painful rash all over his body. The rash initially began 2 months ago and was biopsied at an outside hospital. The biopsy was read as a “dermal hypersensitivity [...]

Case Presentation: Sweet Syndrome, also known as acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis is an uncommon inflammatory disorder of skin characterized by abrupt eruption of painful, edematous, erythematous papules, plaques, nodules and rarely bullous lesions in addition to involvement of mucous membranes, musculoskeletal system and internal organs. There are very few cases reported with sweet syndrome (mostly [...]

Case Presentation: A 47-year-old Caucasian woman presented with severe vomiting and abdominal pain for three days. Her past medical history revealed that she was diagnosed in 2010 with ulcerative colitis proctitis and was recently started on azathioprine. In the past, she had received a short course of steroids, but was complicated by an increase in [...]

Case Presentation: A 55-year-old male with history of bilateral degenerative hip joint disease presented for worsening serosanguinous drainage from his wounds one week after bilateral hip replacement. He further developed diaphoresis and chills and received cephalexin at an outside hospital from where he was later discharged. He did not have improvement from antibiotics and his [...]

Case Presentation: The patient was a 57 year old male with IgG lambda MM (Multiple Myeloma) without remission after autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant. One month after transplantation, he developed erythematous right flank swelling, high fever, fatigue and anorexia. CT scan revealed inflammatory stranding of right medial gluteal musculature and pre sacral space which was [...]

Case Presentation: A 74 year-old man with coronary artery disease and hypertension, who was two weeks post-admission for cholangitis with biliary-tube placement and ATN, re-presented to our institution with weakness, subacute progressive abdominal distension, and diffuse abdominal pain in the setting of serosanguineous biliary tube output. He was febrile with a leukocytosis and started on [...]

Case Presentation: A 48 year-old woman with a history of ulcerative colitis presented to the hospital with a rash and diffuse myalgia of one-week duration. The skin rash was painful and mildly pruritic. She had no fever, abdominal pain, diarrhea, or arthralgia. Physical exam revealed papules on the conjunctivae of her right eye and non-tender, [...]

Case Presentation: A 21-year-old woman presented with pain and swelling of her right leg for the past 2 days. She noted that three weeks earlier, she fell off a jet ski in Miami and had some bruising to the area but no open wounds. On physical exam, her right anterior shin had a 3 cm [...]

Case Presentation: A 90 year old female with invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast previously treated with lumpectomy and whole breast radiotherapy, currently on hormonal therapy presented to the hospital with 3 days of confusion, slurred speech, generalized weakness and erythema of the right chest and right lower extremity. Patient denied recent changes in skin [...]