Sea Bather’s Eruption (Sea Lice)
CHAPTER 178 Sea Bather’s Eruption (Sea Lice) Presentation Patients seek help because of an intense pruritic or painful eruption of red raised welts, sometimes like mosquito bites. They are at…
Tension-Type (Muscle Contraction) Headache
CHAPTER 9 Tension-Type (Muscle Contraction) Headache Presentation The patient complains of a mild to moderate, dull, steady (nonpulsating) pain, described as a pressing, tightening, squeezing, or constricting band, located bilaterally…
Dental Pain, Periapical Abscess (Tooth Abscess)
CHAPTER 45 Dental Pain, Periapical Abscess (Tooth Abscess) Presentation The patient complains of severe, constant facial or dental pain, often associated with facial swelling, regional lymphadenopathy, and cellulitis, and may…
Bartholin Abscess
Figure 87-1 Bartholin abscess. What To Do: If the swelling and pain is mild without fluctuance (bartholinitis) or if the abscess is small, the patient can be placed on antibiotics,…
Seizures (Convulsions, Fits), Febrile and Pediatric
CHAPTER 8 Seizures (Convulsions, Fits), Febrile and Pediatric Presentation Parents who are frightened and concerned bring in their child who has just had a generalized seizure with jerking tonic-clonic movements…
Corneal Abrasion
CHAPTER 16 Corneal Abrasion Presentation The patient may complain of eye pain or a sensation of the presence of a foreign body after being poked in the eye with a…
Foreign Body, Vaginal
CHAPTER 91 Foreign Body, Vaginal Presentation This can be a problem of both children and adults. Children may insert a foreign body and not tell their parents or may be…
Urinary Tract Infection, Upper (Pyelonephritis)
CHAPTER 86 Urinary Tract Infection, Upper (Pyelonephritis) Presentation The patient (usually a woman between 18 and 40 years of age) has some combination of urinary frequency, urgency, dysuria, malaise, flank…
Ganglion Cysts
CHAPTER 113 Ganglion Cysts Presentation The patient is concerned about a rubbery, rounded swelling most commonly emerging from the dorsal or volar aspect of the wrist or the flexor tendon…
