A 60-year-old man presented to the emergency department with dizziness, hypotension, and a 3-week history of abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. Three weeks prior to admission he had experienced 1 ...

A 32-year-old woman with a recent dry cough presents to the emergency department (ED). The patient reports a 6-day history of right upper quadrant pain that is worse when she coughs, moves, laughs, or ...

Sonograms and ultrasounds are closely related but refer to different things. An ultrasound is an imaging tool that produces a sonogram. Often, the terms sonogram and ultrasound are used ...

To accurately assess and diagnose this patient’s condition, the clinician needs to consider the key aspects of the history, examination, laboratory results, and imaging. The patient’s history should ...