ABMS Lifelong Learning CME Activity

A Woman With Facial, Neck, and Chest Swelling During Dental Cleaning

A 37-year-old woman with no history of lung disease experienced sudden-onset tearing pain in her jaw several minutes into a routine air-powder dental polishing; chest radiography and computed tomography showed air located in the fascial planes of her neck and…

HutchinsonñGilford Progeria Syndrome

This case report describes a boy younger than 2 years with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome.

Providing Equitable Surgical Care to Patients in Law Enforcement Custody – A Review

Importance  Approximately 2 million individuals are incarcerated in the US. Surgical needs increase with age, and an aging prison population means an increasing need for surgical care for incarcerated individuals. Challenges in logistics, privacy, communication, and comorbidities put people in law…

Bilateral Paracentral Corneal Opacity in a Man Aged 22 Years

This case report describes a diagnosis of Schnyder crystalline corneal dystrophy in a man aged 22 years with progressive bilateral corneal opacification over 5 years and no visual symptoms.

Hemorrhage Into the Canal of Gratiolet

This case report describes a unilateral basal ganglia hemorrhage passing through the anterior commissure within the canal of Gratiolet to the contralateral side.