Empirically incorrect

Article Abstract:

A 46-year-old Mexican immigrant was hospitalized because of epigastric pain and the vomiting of coffee-grounds material had fatigue, malaise, jaundice and a 20-lb weight loss and had dark stools, light headedness and mild shortness without fever, chills or night sweats. This case reveals the link between the vanishing bile-duct syndrome and Hodgkin's disease and the frustration and consequences result to be empirically incorrect.

United States, Hodgkin's disease

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A window of opportunity

Article Abstract:

The case of a 62-year-old woman who died from liver failure caused by herpes simplex virus is presented. Even though some of her symptoms provided clues of the correct diagnosis, her doctors only tested her for hepatitis viruses. The presence of the herpes simplex virus in her liver was only detected during the autopsy.

Causes of, Liver failure, Herpes simplex

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A pain in the neck

Article Abstract:

A healthy 16 year old girl presents to her physician a two day history of sore throat, fatigue, fever and vomiting. In this case, the impatient clinicians initially marginalize the neck-related symptoms, whereas advance tests place the systemic findings into the context of antecedent pharyngitis.

Management dynamics, Diagnosis, Practice, Clinical trials, Patients, Pharyngitis, Sore throat

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