Midline Tongue Defect in a Pediatric Patient
A male infant presented with an anterior midline tongue indentation. What is your diagnosis?
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Painful Hand Swelling With Finger Contractures
A 56-year-old woman with no history of rheumatic disease or hand injury had swelling and tenderness of the bilateral wrists, metacarpophalangeal and proximal interphalangeal joints, nodular palmar tendon thickening, and flexion contractures of all fingers; results of serologic testing for…
Exemestane-Associated Bilateral Maculopathy
This case report discusses a diagnosis of medication-associated maculopathy in a 44-year-old woman receiving exemestane treatment after breast cancer resection.
Posterior Lenticonus and Intralenticular Cracks on School Visual Screening
This case report discusses a diagnosis of posterior lenticonus with intralenticular cracks found during a school vision screening in a girl aged 8 years referred for decreased visual acuity in the left eye.
Iridolenticular Burns After Panretinal Photocoagulation
This case report describes anterior-segment burns of the nasal pupillary margin with adjacent anterior lenticular opacities in a patient receiving panretinal photocoagulation for proliferative diabetic retinopathy.
Volcanolike Retinal Detachment in High Myopia
This case report describes the grading and effects of myopic traction maculopathy in eyes with high myopia.
Residual Perfluoro-n-Octane Following Surgery for Persistent Fetal Vasculature
An 11-day-old boy was referred for evaluation of right eye leukocoria and was diagnosed with persistent fetal vasculature. Fundus photographs revealed perfluoro-n-octane bubbles in the inferior retina, and optical coherence tomography showed good foveal contour, no macular edema or epiretinal…
Syphilis – A Review
Importance Syphilis is an infectious disease caused by Treponema pallidum, a gram-negative, spirochete bacterium. Worldwide, an estimated 8 million adults aged 18 to 49 years acquired syphilis in 2022. From 2019 to 2023, US syphilis cases increased by 61% overall, with diagnoses…
Guidelines for Next-Generation Sequencing in Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment – A Consensus Review
Importance Sarcomas comprise a heterogeneous group of malignant neoplasms that include genomically simple (driven by recurrent genetic alterations) and genomically complex (characterized by extensive genomic rearrangements) subtypes. Regardless, sarcomas exhibit a remarkably low mutational burden. In this context, there is a…
Population-Level Effectiveness and Herd Protection 17 Years After HPV Vaccine Introduction
Importance Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine clinical trials demonstrate high vaccine efficacy, but postlicensure population-level effectiveness data are needed to inform vaccination and cancer-prevention recommendations and policies. Little is known about effectiveness in adolescent girls and young adult women at high risk…
