A 43-year-old man with a history of intravenous drug abuse for 2 years presented with
progressive and painless swellings in the left side of the neck for a duration of 1 month. He …

A42-year-old man with hepatitis C presented to the emergency department with fever and a
tender, fluctuant neck mass on the right. He had a well-documented history of intraven ous …

Presentation of Case A 36-year-old, right-handed man was admitted to the hospital because
of seizures and severe hypertension. The patient had an 18-year history of intravenous drug …

A32-year-old woman was evaluated in an emergency depart-ment with a near-syncopal
episode, associated with diffuse urticarial rash and a feeling of enlargement of her tongue …

Intravenous drug abusers may present with discrete areas of erythematous, blachable,
tender maculopapular lesions on the body and extremities with rare scattered vesicles. This …

A 36-year-old woman was admit-ted to the hospital after experiencing three days of
increasing left leg pain, erythema, and swelling. She had injected heroin into the …

A 62-year-old woman with a history of long-term intravenous drug use and chronic Hepatitis
C virus infection was admitted to another hospital unresponsive with profound hypotension …

A 64-year-old woman who had recently immigrated to the United States from Vietnam came
to the emergency department because of a painful mass in the left side of her jaw, which she …

A previously healthy 16-year-old girl presented to her physician because of a two-day
history of sore throat, fatigue, fever, headache, and vomiting. On examination, her …

A 40-year-old HIV-infected gay man presented with a 2-cm neck mass, which was promptly
incised and drained. Over the ensuing months, however, the wound continued to drain pus …