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A 46-year-old patient presented for radiation due to stage 3 inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) of the left breast. The patient has progressive unilateral left breast erythema with increasing swellin...
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A patient with type 2 diabetic chronic kidney disease (CKD), stage 2, has a history of bariatric surgery due to morbid obesity. The patient has lost a significant amount of weight and no longer req...
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A patient with type 2 diabetic mellitus has a history of bariatric surgery due to morbid obesity. The patient has lost a significant amount of weight and no longer requires antidiabetic medication....
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A patient presented to the emergency department (ED) with bilateral flank pain and lower abdominal pain of the left quadrant. The patient was evaluated for the pain, but all labs and CT results wer...
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A patient presented to the ED with a complaint of left flank tenderness for three days. The patient denied dysuria, hematuria, or penile pain. Physical exam was remarkable for tenderness of the lef...
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A patient was admitted due to a 4-day history of intractable nausea and vomiting. The patient was not able to keep food down and could only drink very little liquids. The physician noted that the p...
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A 37-year-old patient was admitted for debridement of chronic ulcers of the right and left forearms. The ulcers expressed a copious purulent discharge with areas of necrosis of the subcutaneous tis...
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A patient who is status post chemoradiation for Hodgkin’s disease presents with esophageal and gastric outlet obstruction, due to progression of metastatic leiomyosarcoma to the liver, causing ex...
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A patient presents to the Emergency Department and is admitted after computerized tomography (CT) of the abdomen revealed acute prostatitis and cystitis. How should acute prostatitis with cystitis ...
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A 17-year-old patient with a history of thoracic adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) has developed adding-on phenomenon following a previous T2-T12 posterior spinal fusion. The patient has develo...
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