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Radiographic and CT features revealed an ill-defined, solitary pulmonary nodule in the right upper lobe

Make the Diagnosis: A Solitary, Poorly-Defined Pulmonary Nodule in a Febrile Patient

A 67-year-old man presented to the ED appearing ill with complaints of productive cough, dyspnea, pleuritic chest pain, and fever for the past 5 days. Can you diagnose the patient?

Photo of a person with Lupus Panniculitis

Make the Diagnosis: What Caused These Ulcerating Lesions in a Patient With SLE?

A 41-year-old woman with a history of systemic lupus erythematosus presented for evaluation of painful areas that had developed on her upper, outer arms and lateral thighs over the past month. Can you diagnose the patient?

Photo of an arm with poison ivy

Make the Diagnosis: This Rash? Don’t Blame the Dog

A 23-year-old woman visited urgent care for a severely pruritic rash that had developed on her leg a couple of days prior and was spreading. Can you diagnose the patient?

Close-up image of young boy with perioral dermatitis

Make the Diagnosis: Ring Around His Mouth: Why?

A 7-year-old boy was brought to the doctor by his mother regarding a facial rash that had developed over the past few weeks. Can you diagnose the patient?

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Make the Diagnosis: These Findings Point to…

A 23-year-old man presented to the emergency room after a recent fall onto an outstretched hand while skiing. Can you diagnose the patient?

A photo of a woman with dermatitis on her stomach

Make the Diagnosis: What Triggered These Lesions?

A 55-year-old woman visited her doctor concerned about a mildly pruritic rash that had developed on her trunk and arms over the past few weeks. Can you diagnose the patient?

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Make the Diagnosis: His Skin Is Slacking Off

A 43-year-old man presented to the doctor with a rash that had developed on his trunk over the last couple of days.

Top of persons head with hair loss

Make the Diagnosis: Increased Hair Loss and 'White Bulbs' -- What’s Up?

A 55-year-old woman visited her doctor after noticing that the hair on her scalp was falling out at an increased rate over the last 3 months.

Image of Ocular Cicatricial Pemphigoid

Make the Diagnosis: Don’t Lose Time Making This Diagnosis

A 66-year-old woman presented to the doctor concerned after noticing a fleshy growth that had appeared on her left eye within the last few weeks.

VisualDx image of Chikungunya

Make the Diagnosis: Her Symptoms Are Bugging Her

A 32-year-old immunocompetent woman went to urgent care due to fever, cough, arthralgia, and photophobia.

VisualDx image on Legionellosis

Make the Diagnosis: Several Possible Culprits…

A 52-year-old man presented to the ED appearing ill and with complaints of cough, dyspnea, pleuritic chest pain, and fever.

Make the Diagnosis: She’s Too Young for Lines on Her Face

A 9-year-old girl was brought to the doctor by her mother after noticing a rash that had developed on the girl's face over the past week.

Make the Diagnosis: Urinary Symptoms -- What’s Your Diagnosis?

A 58-year-old man went to the urgent care complaining of frequent and painful urination that appears "cloudy," occurring over the course of a few days, all throughout the day.

Make the Diagnosis: Something to Get Hot and Bothered About?

A mother brought her 4-week-old daughter to the doctor concerned about a vesicular rash that developed on the girl's back within the last day.

Make the Diagnosis: Painful Limping and Decreased ROM—Why?

A 72-year-old man presented to the doctor with complaints of hip pain and groin pain affecting his left lower extremities that gradually began over the last couple of months.

Make the Diagnosis: This Is a Bit…Fishy

A 43-year-old woman visited her doctor about a smooth nodule that developed on her right hand 2 weeks ago.

Make the Diagnosis: Pity the Patella

An athletic 17-year-old-man presents to the doctor with patellar knee pain (localized to anterior section), joint tenderness, and decreased range of motion that has developed steadily over the past 4-6 weeks.

Make the Diagnosis: A Severe Scalp Scene

A 40-year-old man presented to the doctor with a scarring condition of his scalp.

Make the Diagnosis: More Than a Cosmetic Problem?

A 20-year-old man went to the doctor after noticing multiple cystic lesions that recently appeared on his trunk.

Make the Diagnosis: Is This a Manifestation of Her Crohn’s Disease?

A 55-year-old woman presents to the doctor with a vesicular and pustular rash that appeared on her arm in a dermatomal distribution.

Make the Diagnosis: Is This Something To Worry About?

At his 6-year-old daughter's regular check-up, a father asked the pediatrician to look at a skin condition that had recently developed on his daughter's abdomen.

Make the Diagnosis: More Than an Itch

A 66-year-old man went to the doctor after experiencing an extremely itchy rash for the preceding 2 months.

Make the Diagnosis: Why Did These Multicolored, Painful Plaques Appear on Her Legs?

A 60-year-old woman went to the doctor after noticing sudden onset of extremely painful, dark areas that had developed on her legs over the course of a few days.

Make the Diagnosis: ACL Injury? ALL Injury? Neither? Or Both?

An athletic 21-year-old woman presents to the doctor with lateral knee pain (localized to anterior section), joint effusion, and edema that developed rapidly after injuring her right knee during a college soccer game.

Make the Diagnosis: Truncal Eruption in a Transgender Man

A 17-year-old transgender man visited his doctor reporting fever, multiple joint pain, and a progressive truncal eruption that had begun a few weeks prior.

Make the Diagnosis: Fever and Flank Pain -- What’s Up?

A 31-year-old man went to urgent care complaining of fever and chills lasting a few days, which he originally thought was the flu.

Make the Diagnosis: Good That She Didn’t Ignore This

A 50-year-old woman with a long history of cigarette smoking asked her dentist about a white oral plaque that she noticed on the underside of her tongue.

Make the Diagnosis: Did His Helmet Cause It?

A 28-year-old male Naval aviator asked his doctor about a number of papules and pustules that slowly appeared on his occipital scalp over the past few months.

Make the Diagnosis: No, Not a Goose

During a well-child visit to the pediatrician, the mother of a 10-year-old girl asked about a rash of tiny papules that had slowly developed on both upper arms earlier in the year.

Make the Diagnosis: But Will It Spread?

A 45-year-old woman went to the doctor after noticing a rash that developed over a few weeks after the summer temperatures rose.

Make the Diagnosis: More than Skin Deep?

A 39-year-old man went to urgent care complaining of red, blanching patches in a linear configuration on his lower leg.

Make the Diagnosis: Hyperpigmentation, Weight Loss, and More: What’s Up?

A 48-year-old man went to his doctor with concerns about hyperpigmented patches.

Make the Diagnosis: Itchy Lesions and Lymphadenopathy

A 7-year-old boy was brought to the doctor by his mother with a rash of scaly papules primarily on his trunk, some of which had crusted or healed.

Make the Diagnosis: The Eyes Have It

A 34-year-old man went to the doctor complaining of ocular pain in both eyes.

Make the Diagnosis: These Changes Could be a Clue to What?

A 38-year-old woman with a history of overactive thyroid went to the doctor with concerns about bilateral hyperpigmented patches on her lower legs.

Make the Diagnosis: It’ll be A Tricky Diagnosis

A 6-year-old boy was at the doctor for a regular checkup and his father asked the doctor to take a look at a red lesion on the helical rim of his ear.

Make the Diagnosis: When the Pantry Is Empty

A 50-year-old woman went to urgent care because she hadn't been feeling well for several weeks.

Make the Diagnosis: This Rash Concerns Mom, But Not Him

At her 8-year-old son's regular check-up, a mother asked the pediatrician to look at a skin condition that developed rather suddenly about a month ago.

Make the Diagnosis: Lots of Clues -- What’s the Diagnosis?

A 33-year-old woman went to the doctor concerned about the development of bilateral, wide pink striae on her legs and abdomen.

Make the Diagnosis: It’s Zinc, You Think?

A 44-year-old woman with a history of Crohn disease went to the doctor worried about symmetrical demarcated eczematous papules and plaques around her mouth, in the intertriginous area under her breasts, and on her hands and feet.

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