Clinical Review

Common Facial Injuries

Author:

Y. Olive Lamm, MD

Francis L. Counselman, MD, FACEP

Facial injuries are commonly encountered in the ED, and determining whether the injury requires supportive measures or more aggressive treatment...

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Knee Injury While Playing Soccer

Author:

Keith D. Hentel, MD

Kevin Mennitt, MD

After sustaining a knee injury, a 30-year-old man is unable to bear weight. Based on the accompanying images, what is your diagnosis?

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Severe Left Shoulder Pain While Weightlifting

Author:

Brian L. Patterson, MD

J. Michael Ray, MD

Amit Varma, MD

A man experiences severe pain in his left shoulder that began during a weightlifting session. How would you interpret the image of his shoulder?...

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Two Patients With Pain and Wrist Deformity

Author:

Keith D. Hentel, MD

Katharine Lampen-Sachar, MD

After falling with outstretched arms, two patients present with pain and wrist deformities. What do the x-ray films tell you about their injuries...

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Severe Pain on Bottom of Foot

Author:

Brian L. Patterson, MD

J. Michael Ray, MD

Amit Varma, MD

A young woman has had severe pain on the bottom of her right foot for 3 weeks but denies any history of trauma or injury. What do these...

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Severe Pain and Swelling in Hand After Fall

Author:

Brian L. Patterson, MD

J. Michael Ray, MD

Amit Varma, MD

After falling on his right hand, a boy reports pain and swelling that he initially attributed to finger dislocation. What do these radiographs of...

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Four Patients With Ankle Fractures

Author:

Keith D. Hentel, MD

Four patients present to your emergency department with ankle-twisting injuries. Try to identify each patient's fracture.

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Painful "Pop" in Right Shoulder

Author:

J. Michael Ray, MD IVette Guttman, MD

Brian L. Patterson, MD

Weeks after falling on her right shoulder, a middle-aged woman reports severe recurrent pain. How would you interpret this radiograph of her...

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Clinical Review

Lumbar Back Pain: From the Common to the Critical

Author:

William Alley, MD

Barry Knapp, MD, FACEP

Emergency department experience teaches that most episodes of low back pain, as severe and temporarily disabling as they may be, are not...

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Four Cases of Acute Shoulder Injury

Author:

Keith D. Hentel, MD

Test your accuracy in identifying dislocation as you review these x-ray films from four different patients who presented with acute traumatic...

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Clinical Review

Ensuring Color-Blind Care

Author:

Alan Heins, MD

An African-American patient receives inadequate pain relief in this case example, which the author uses to illustrate ways you can combat this...

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