From the Journal

What clues on the radiographs point to the cause?

Read the details of this case, answer the “quiz” questions—and get immediate feedback about your diagnostic and therapeutic choices.

A 34-year-old man is seen for routine annual physical examination. Heavy smoker. No oral symptoms, no oral trauma. Denies recent weight loss, hematochezia, and fatigue.

Macular hole, dry age-related macular degeneration, diabetic maculopathy, postoperative cystoid macular edema, branch retinal vein occlusion.

No epidemiologic or clinical features decisively distinguish CA-MRSA infections from those caused by other staphylococcal strains.

An inflamed linear eruption; pruritic bullae; discrete areas of thick, crusty scale on the scalp—can you identify the disorders pictured here?

In his Photo Essay case of a 5-year-old girl with a herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection on her thumb (Figure), Dr Robert Blereau writes that treatment consisted of mupirocin ointment (CONSULTANT,  March...