UMEM Educational Pearls - Visual Diagnosis

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41year-old male without past medical history presents with the image below. What's the diagnosis and what's the most likely causative organism?

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28 year-old female with history of chronic back pain presents with right-foot numbness and inability to move her foot at the ankle joint. What’s the diagnosis and what neurologic finding would you expect to find?

 

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30 year-old female with elbow pain following a fall. What's the diagnosis? (bonus points if you name the fracture with an associated radio-ulnar joint dislocation)

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Diabetic patient with active intravenous drug use presents with hypotension, fever, and tenderness of right arm. What's the diagnosis and what antibiotic(s) would you start?

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A patient presents with the rash shown below and is treated with penicillin. Fever, headache, and myalgia develop four hours later. What’s the diagnosis?

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The clip below demonstrates normal right femoral anatomy. The structure with the asterisk is the right common femoral vein and the arrow is pointing to a branch of the right femoral vein. What is the name of the branch and what is its importance during lower extremity ultrasound?

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66 year-old female presents with one week of epigastric and right flank pain. Urinalysis was normal. What’s the diagnosis?

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25 year-old female (G1P1) presents with 3 weeks of vaginal bleeding. Her serum beta-HCG is 65,000. Her bedside ultrasound is below; what's the diagnosis? 

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23 year-old female presents complaining of progressive right lower quadrant pain after doing "vigorous" pushups. CT abdomen/pelvis below. What’s the diagnosis? (Hint: it’s not appendicitis)

 

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25 year-old female presents with the following. It seems to have occurred spontaneously and spontaneously resolves during her ED evaluation.

 

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62 year-old male presents with weakness, chills, cough, and malaise. Recently, he had four teeth extracted but felt fine immediately after the extraction. Past medical history includes diabetes and hypertension; CXR is below. What’s the diagnosis?

 

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35 year-old carpet-layer presents with swelling of the superior portion of his knee that has progressively gotten worse over one week. He has no fever and has full range of motion (although pain is worse with movement). The knee is not tender to touch and the area is not erythematous or warm. What's the diagnosis?

 

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Category: Visual Diagnosis

Title: Visual Diagnosis

Keywords: international, global, hypoxia, clubbing (PubMed Search)

Posted: 3/12/2014 by Andrea Tenner, MD
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What is this physical finding?

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32 year-old male presents with the following. What's the diagnosis?

 

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50 year-old with facial weakness and dysarthria. What's the diagnosis?

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44 year-old construction worker fell off a ladder and presents with elbow pain. What's the diagnosis and what is the most commonly associated nerve injury? 

 

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25 year-old male presents after falling off his bicycle. He complains of pain in his right-hand (he is right-hand dominant). What's the diagnosis? 

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34 year-old left-hand dominant male sustained injury to left hand after his pressurized greasing-gun discharged into the palm of his hand. He has a small lac to the hand but is in extreme pain. On exam his hand is very puffy and he is neurovascularly intact (XR below) What is the next step in management? 

 

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32 year-old with diabetes presents with fever, erythema, and warmth of his lower extremity; his leg is not particularly painful. He is diagnosed with cellulitis, started on antibiotics, and admitted to the hospital. While boarding in the Emergency Department he becomes rigorous and hypotensive. An ultrasound of his cellulitis is performed and is shown below. What’s the diagnosis?

 

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50 year-old male intubated for respiratory distress. Ultrasound is used post-intubation to confirm tube placement and the following images are obtained. What's the diagnosis?

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