A 45-year-old male presents to the physician with muscle cramps, perioral numbness, and irritability over the past 3 to 4 months. Lab results reveal...
A healthy, 37-year-old, recently divorced woman loses her job at th e auto factory. She picks up her three young children from the factory day...
A surgeon performs an exploratory laparotomy, producing a large incision in the patient's abdomen. Poor blood supply to which of the following is most...
Which of the following developmental abnormalities might account for unexplained small intestinal bleeding?
A 25-year-old woman with sickle cell anemia complains of steady pain in her right upper quadrant with radiation to the right shoulder, especially after large...
A 32-year-old, blood type A positive male receives a kidney transplant from a blood type B positive female donor with whom he had a 6-antigen...
A 32-year-old pregnant woman is told by her physician to avoid taking aspirin. Use of aspirin is contraindicated, especially during the last part of pregnancy,...
Routine physical examination of a 55-year-old man demonstrates marked finger clubbing. Radiography of the hand shows new bone formation beneath the periosteum. With which...
An elderly woman with a history of multiple oral ulcers presents with flaccid bullae on her scalp, face, and trunk. Manual pressure on the ...
A patient develops an acute febrile illness with shivers, nonproductive cough, and pleuritic chest pain. Five days later, he presents to the emergency room...
