Oncohema Key

Case 79 Presentation A 25-year-old woman presents to the emergency room complaining of headache, palpitations, and anxiety. She has had similar symptoms several times over the past 3 months. On…

Case 77 Presentation The patient is a 45-year-old woman who has been found to be occasionally unarousable by her husband in the early morning hours. She will become coherent if…

Case 76 Presentation The patient is a 52-year-old man who has severe epigastric pain and diarrhea. He is treated with 20 mg omeprazole daily without resolution of the pain. He…

Case 75 Presentation A 45-year-old woman with a history of node-negative breast cancer undergoes a computed tomography (CT) scan as part of her routine follow-up. The CT scan was supposed…

Case 74 Presentation A 41-year-old woman is admitted to your hospital with hypertension and severe headache. Workup shows an increased level of noradrenaline in urine, 15 times greater than the…

Case 73 Presentation A 38-year-old man presents with multiple firm, purple-reddish-brown nodules and plaques on the lower extremities. The patient had been diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) 5 months…

Case 72 Presentation The patient is an 80-year-old woman from the Dominican Republic who had a biopsy-proven basal cell carcinoma (BCC) on the left lateral nose 1 year prior to…

Case 71 Presentation A 58-year-old white man, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive since 1989, is referred for evaluation of squamous cell carcinomas of the right forehead, scalp vertex, and left lower…

Case 70 Presentation A 69-year-old woman presents to her primary care physician after she notices a firm, nontender, red mass on her left forearm. She first noticed it several weeks…

Case 69 Presentation A 45-year-old woman presented to her dermatologist after noticing a suspicious lesion on her left thigh. An excisional biopsy performed in the office demonstrated a 1.8-mm superficial…