Are You Confident of the Diagnosis? What to be alert for in the history Amoebiasis, in particular, amoeba cutis is a rare and unusual disease that exists chiefly as a disease of the tropics. The condition is extraordinarily unusual in the United States except in a returning traveler, and the infection should be suspected principally…
Are You Confident of the Diagnosis? What you should be alert for in the history Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) has a strong association with exposure to gadolinium-based contrast media during periods of either recognized or unrecognized, acute or chronic, renal insufficiency. The absence of exposure to gadolinum-based contrast material and/or the absence of signficant renal…
Are You Confident of the Diagnosis? Gyrate erythemas (also known as figurate erythemas) represent a family of related skin conditions that occur chiefly as a reactive process. In other words, the gyrate erythemas represent a visible cutaneous manifestation of a larger hypersensitivity process, infectious process, paraneoplastic process, or other systemic metabolic and/or homeostatic disturbance. Characteristic…
