Ann Bechtel, BSN, RN

Progressive pruritic purpura; Erythematous scalp plaques

Publish date: October 1, 2013

Publish date: August 1, 2013

A 60-year-old man of Middle Eastern descent presents to the urgent care center with gingival inflammation, redness, tenderness, and bleeding and a...

Publish date: June 1, 2013

An 82-year-old woman notes acute onset of tense blisters at a trauma site on her left knee. A 78-year-old white man presents to the urgent care ce...

Publish date: April 1, 2013

A 32-year-old male farmer presents to the urgent care center with a “skin sore” involving his right arm. A 38-year-old woman presents ...

Publish date: April 1, 2013

A 32-year-old male farmer presents to the urgent care center with a "skin sore" involving his right arm. A 38-year-old woman presents to the urgen...

Publish date: January 1, 2013

A 36-year-old pregnant woman presents to the urgent care center because of a bleeding vascular tumor involving her right upper cheek. The lesion d...

Publish date: November 1, 2012

What treatments are indicated for each case?

Publish date: August 1, 2012

An older man has episodes of severe flushing and abdominal pain; a younger man presents with tender "draining boils" in the axillae.