| 1996 |
1 |
1/11/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 334: 105-111 |
Subacute infective endocarditis, streptococcus group B. Aneurysm of the left sinus of Valsalva with rupture into pulmonary artery. Bicuspid aortic valve, with calcification and stenosis. |
Ear, Nose & Throat; Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery; Infectious Disease |
A 69-year-old woman with severe, persistent congestive heart failure after treatment for bacteremia. |
| 1996 |
2 |
1/18/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 334: 176-182 |
Hepatocellular carcinoma, fibrolamellar variant. |
Hematology/Oncology |
A 32-year-old woman with left subcostal pain, bouts of fever, and a mass in the left hepatic lobe. |
| 1996 |
3 |
1/25/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 334: 255-260 |
Ectopic pregnancy, right fallopian tube, fimbrial. (Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome. (Torsion of the left ovary and tube. (Intrauterine pregnancy. |
OB/Gyn |
A 31-year-old woman with a documented first pregnancy of four weeks' duration with severe pain in the left lower quadrant of the abdomen, nausea and vomiting. |
| 1996 |
4 |
2/8/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 334: 382-389 |
Chronic Schistosoma mansoni infection,with involvement of the large intestine and spinal cord. |
Infectious Disease |
A 40-year-old woman with recent onset of paraplegia. |
| 1996 |
5 |
2/15/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 334: 452-458 |
Angiosarcoma of the heart with pulmonary spread. |
Cardiology/Cardiac Surgery; Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery |
A 25-year-old man with persistent chest pain and dyspnea after an injury. |
| 1996 |
6 |
2/22/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 334: 521-526 |
Mycobacterium avium bronchiolitis. |
Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery; Infectious Disease |
A 40-year-old man with persistent productive cough, dyspnea, and bilateral apical infiltrates. |
| 1996 |
7 |
2/29/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 334: 586-592 |
Focal cortical dysplasia. |
Neurology/Neurosurgery Pediatrics |
A right handed 8-year-old boy with intractable seizures. |
| 1996 |
8 |
3/14/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 334: 715-720 |
Demyelinating disease. |
Neurology/Neurosurgery |
A 28-year-old woman with rapid development of a major personality change and global aphasia. |
| 1996 |
9 |
3/21/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 334: 784-789 |
Vertebral tuberculosis. |
Orthopedics/Musculoskeletal; Infectious Disease |
A 21-year-old woman with thoracolumbar pain. |
| 1996 |
10 |
3/28/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 334: 849-854 |
Idiopathic granulatomous appendictitis, probable. ?Crohn's disease of the appendix. |
Primary Care; Gastroenterology/Abdominal Surgery |
A 36-year-old man with pain in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen and the lumbar region. |
| 1996 |
11 |
4/11/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 334: 973-979 |
Atheroembolism of the kidney and lungs. Nephrosclerosis. (? Renal artery stenosis, bilateral. |
Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery; Nephrology |
A 69-year-old man with increasing dyspnea in the course of one day. |
| 1996 |
12 |
4/18/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 334: 1045-1051 |
Budd--Chiari syndrome. Protein C deficiency. |
Hematology/Oncology; Gastroenterology/Abdominal Surgery; Pediatrics |
A 18-year-old woman with hepatomegaly and ascites. |
| 1996 |
13 |
4/25/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 334: 1116-1123 |
Streptococcal pneumonia, fulminant, with sepsis. Sarcoidosis of the lungs, lymph nodes, and spleen. |
Infectious Disease; Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery |
A 51-year-old man with adult respiratory distress syndrome. |
| 1996 |
14 |
5/9/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 334: 1254-1261 |
Invasive aspergillosis, probably bronchopneumonic, with angioinvasion and hematogenous dissemination. Toxic epidermal necrolysis. |
Dermatology |
A 66-year-old woman with possible toxic epidermal necrolysis. |
| 1996 |
15 |
5/16/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 334: 1316-1322 |
T-cell lymphoma high grade, disseminated, with jejunal perforation, consistent with enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma. Celiac disease. |
Hematology/Oncology; Gastroenterology/Abdominal Surgery; Cardiology/Cardiac Surgery |
A 79-year-old woman with anorexia, weight loss, dehydration and diarrhea. |
| 1996 |
16 |
5/23/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 334: 1389-1394 |
Tangier disease. |
Orthopedics/Musculoskeletal |
A 36-year-old left handed woman with progressive, bilateral hand weakness and numbness, bilateral facial weakness, and lossof truncal sensation. |
| 1996 |
17 |
5/30/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 334: 1461-1467 |
Pseudomembranous colitis associated with toxin producing C. difficile infection and cytomegalovirus colitis. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). |
Infectious Disease |
A 48-year-old man with AIDS, admitted because of bloody diarrhea and severe abdominal pain. |
| 1996 |
18 |
6/13/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 334: 1591-1597 |
Langerhans'-cell histiocytosis, Letterer-Siwe subtype. |
Dermatology; Pediatrics; OB/Gyn |
A newborn boy with rash and respiratory distress. |
| 1996 |
19 |
6/20/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 334: 1655-1662 |
Acute veno-occlusive disease of the liver after bone marrow transplantation. Acute tubular necrosis, renal allograft. |
Transplantation; Hematology/Oncology |
A 33-year-old man with refractory acute myeloblastic leukemia, stage M1, admitted for a bone marrow transplantation. |
| 1996 |
20 |
6/27/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 334: 1726-1732 |
Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation of the lung. |
Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery |
A three-hour-old boy admitted to the intensive care unit after a premature delivery. |
| 1996 |
21 |
7/11/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 335: 115-122 |
Hodgkin's disease, nodular sclerosis type, involving multiple bones. |
Orthopedics/Musculoskeletal; Hematology/Oncology |
A 52-year-old man with severe back pain. |
| 1996 |
22 |
7/18/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 335: 189-196 |
Cerebral amyloid angiopathy. |
Neurology/Neurosurgery |
A 69-year-old right-handed woman with a left parieto-occipital hemorrhage during treatment with warfarin for transient cerebral ischemic attacks. |
| 1996 |
23 |
7/25/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 335: 266-273 |
Pulmonary amyloidosis, with diffuse aveolar sepatal and vascular involvement. Cardiac amyloidosis, probable. Multiple myeloma, probable. |
Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery; Vascular Surgery |
A 62-year-old woman with progressive exertional dyspnea and reticulonodular pulmonary infiltrates. |
| 1996 |
24 |
8/8/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 335: 417-424 |
Alveolar proteinosis with marked interstitial scarring. |
Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery |
A 54-year-old woman with radiologic evidence of pulmunary abnormalities. |
| 1996 |
25 |
8/15/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 335: 499-505 |
Tuberculous pleuritis. |
Infectious Disease |
A 38-year-old man with fever, cough and sweats. |
| 1996 |
26 |
8/22/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 335: 577-584 |
Carbamazepine hypersensitivity reaction. |
Pediatrics; Orthopedics/Musculoskeletal |
A 7-year-old boy with fever, lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, and eosinophilia. |
| 1996 |
27 |
8/29/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 335: 650-655 |
Idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis. |
Gastroenterology/Abdominal Surgery |
A 31-year-old woman with pain in the left lumbar region and the left lower quadrant of the abdomen. |
| 1996 |
28 |
9/12/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 335: 807-812 |
Endometriosis of the sigmoid colon. |
OB/Gyn; Gastroenterology/Abdominal Surgery |
A 45-year-old woman (gravida 3, para 0) with increasing abdominal pain. |
| 1996 |
29 |
9/19/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 335: 876-881 |
Synovial chondromatosis. Gout. |
Orthopedics/Musculoskeletal; Ear, Nose & Throat; Primary Care |
A 59-year-old man with a painful preauricular mass. |
| 1996 |
30 |
9/26/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 335: 952-959 |
Intravascular lymphomatosis involving the brain and other organs. Venous angioma or anomaly, right parietal lobe. Capillary telangiectasias, left temporal lobe and cerebellum. |
Neurology/Neurosurgery; Vascular Medicine |
An 81-year-old right-handed man with progressive disorientation and repeated falls. |
| 1996 |
31 |
10/10/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 335: 1133-1140 |
Parainfluenza virus, type 3, pneumonia, with giant cells (giant-cell pneumonia). |
Infectious Disease; Pediatrics |
An 18-month-old boy with persistent cough and increasing tachypnea. |
| 1996 |
32 |
10/17/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 335: 1213-1220 |
Parathyroid carcinoma, with invasion of adjacent soft tissue. |
Hematology/Oncology |
A 44-year-old woman with hyperparathyroidism with a hypercalcemic crisis. |
| 1996 |
33 |
10/24/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 335: 1303-1307 |
Cutaneous infection due to Mycobacterium chelonae involving a tracheostomy stoma. |
Infectious Disease; Ear, Nose & Throat |
A 55-year-old man with obstructive sleep apnea, which has been managed by a long term tracheostomy, with acid-fast bacilli in stomal granulations. |
| 1996 |
34 |
10/31/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 335: 1378-1386 |
Sarcoidosis involving the heart, lungs, peribronchial lymph nodes, liver, and spleen. Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia. Lipomatous hypertrophy of the atrial septum. |
Cardiology/Cardiac Surgery; Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery |
A 50-year-old woman with cardiac arrest in ventricular fibrillation. |
| 1996 |
35 |
11/14/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 335: 1514-1521 |
T-cell lymphoma, anaplastic large-cell type ( lymphomatoid granulomatosis ) involving the lungs, liver and bone marrow. Herpes zoster dermatitis. |
Dermatology; Hematology/Oncology |
A 57-year-old woman with fever, sweats, neuropathy and multiple pulmonary nodules. |
| 1996 |
36 |
11/21/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 335: 1587-1595 |
Varicella-zoster leukoencephalitis with hemorrhage and large-vessel vasculopathy. Acquired Immunodeficiency syndrome. |
Infectious Disease; Neurology/Neurosurgery |
A 37-year-old right-handed man with AIDS admitted because of increasing confusion and disorientation. |
| 1996 |
37 |
11/28/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 335: 1668-1674 |
Noncaseating granulomas consistent with sarcoidosis. |
Neurology/Neurosurgery |
A 51-year-old man with visual instability and intracranial mass. |
| 1996 |
38 |
12/12/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 335: 1829-1834 |
Q fever, acute, (with cerebellar and meningeal involvement). |
Infectious Disease; Neurology/Neurosurgery Pediatrics |
An 18-year-old right-handed man with severe, persistent headache and the development of ataxia and slurred speech. |
| 1996 |
39 |
12/19/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 335: 1906-1914 |
Granulomatous encephalitis, secondary to Schistosoma mansoni infection. |
Infectious Disease; Neurology/Neurosurgery |
A 30-year-old right-handed man with tonic-clonic seizure and a left temporal-lobe mass. |
| 1996 |
40 |
12/26/1996 |
N Engl J Med 1996; 335: 1974-1982 |
Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma, sclerosing variant, with fibroelastotic veno-occlusion. Bronchiectasis, fusiform. |
Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery; Hematology/Oncology |
A 58-year-old man with respiratory distress and hypotension. |
| 1997 |
1 |
1/9/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 336: 118-125 |
Wilson's disease. |
OB/Gyn |
A 23-year-old man admitted because of fulminant hepatorenal failure. |
| 1997 |
2 |
1/16/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 336:205-210 |
Bartonella endocarditis, probably due to Bartonella quintana. |
Cardiology/Cardiac Surgery; Infectious Disease |
A 38-year-old schizophrenic man admitted because of digital clubbing and a cardiac murmer. |
| 1997 |
3 |
1/23/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 336: 277-284 |
Neutropenic enterocolitis. |
Gastroenterology/Abdominal Surgery; Hematology/Oncology |
A 39-year-old man admitted because of acute leukemia. |
| 1997 |
4 |
1/30/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 336: 357-364 |
Asthma, acute and chronic, with mucuous plugging, bronchiolitis obliterans, and chronic eosinophilic pneumonia. |
Pulmonary |
A 37-year-old man with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) was admitted to the hospital becuase of dyspnea and wheezing of three month's duration. |
| 1997 |
5 |
2/13/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 336: 492-499 |
Kikuchi's disease (histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis) |
Hematology/Oncology; Primary Care; OB/Gyn; Infectious Disease |
A 24-year-old Asian woman admitted because of left cervical lymphadenopathy and fever. |
| 1997 |
6 |
2/20/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 336: 567-573 |
Mesenteric venous thrombosis. Infarction of the small intestine. |
Gastroenterology/Abdominal Surgery |
A 69-year-old man admitted because of severe abdominal pain. |
| 1997 |
7 |
2/27/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 336: 641-647 |
Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (Osler--Weber--Rendu disease). |
Pediatrics; Hematology/Oncology; Gastroenterology/Abdominal Surgery |
A 14-year-old girl was admitted because of recurrent rectal bleeding. |
| 1997 |
8 |
3/13/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 336: 786-793 |
Nodular lymphoid hyperplasia and giardiasis. Diffuse large-cell, immunoblastic lymphoma. |
Hematology/Oncology; Gastroenterology/Abdominal Surgery |
A 65-year-old man was admitted because of severe abdominal pain and recurrent diarrhea. |
| 1997 |
9 |
3/20/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 336: 861-867 |
Carcinoid tumor, with pernicious anemia and atrophic gastritis. Neuroendocrine hyperplasia and dysplasia and gastric fundus. G-cell hyperplasia and gastric antrum |
Gastroenterology/Abdominal Surgery |
A 39-year-old woman was admitted because of a gastric mass and pernicious anemia. |
| 1997 |
10 |
3/27/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 336: 939-947 |
Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency, PZ phenotype,; Genetic hemochromatosis and heterozygous phenotype, Micronodular cirrhosis of the liver, Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency |
Gastroenterology/Abdominal Surgery |
A 68-year-old woman was admitted because of hepatic encephalopathy. |
| 1997 |
11 |
4/10/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 336: 1079-1088 |
Acute, critical-illness, myopathy, with loss of myosin filaments, induced by corticosteroid treatment |
Gastroenterology/Abdominal Surgery |
A 51-year-old man admitted because of respiratory failure. |
| 1997 |
12 |
4/17/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 336: 1163-1171 |
Oligodendroma, focally anaplastic, mixed with low-grade astrocytoma and multiple sclerosis |
Neurology/Neurosurgery |
A 50-year-old right handed woman with multiple sclerosis admitted because of an enlarging intracranial mass. |
| 1997 |
13 |
4/24/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 336: 1235-1241 |
Hodgkin's disease. |
Gastroenterology/Abdominal Surgery; Hematology/Oncology |
A 32-year-old-man was admitted because of IgG antibody and Coombs'-positive hemolytic anemia resistant to corticoid steroid treatment. |
| 1997 |
14 |
5/8/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 336: 1373-1379 |
Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor. |
Neurology/Neurosurgery |
A 30-year-old woman admitted because of intractable seizures. |
| 1997 |
15 |
5/15/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 336: 1439-1446 |
Placental vascular thrombosis due to listeria infection. Cerebral embolism and infarction. |
Infectious Disease; Pediatrics; OB/Gyn; Vascular Medicine |
A newborn boy was admitted becuase of respiratory depression. |
| 1997 |
16 |
5/22/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 336: 1512-1516 |
Papillary fibroelastoma of the pulmonic valve. |
Cardiology/Cardiac Surgery; Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery |
A 42-year-old woman was admitted beacuse of a mass in the pulmonic valve. |
| 1997 |
17 |
5/29/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 336: 1587-1594 |
Thrombotic microangiopathy (hemolytic uremic syndrome). Hemorragic gastroenteritis, probably due to Escherichia coli O157:H7 infection. |
Gastroenterology/Abdominal Surgery; Nephrology; Infectious Disease |
A 67-year-old woman was admitted because of azotemia with nausea, vomiting and bloody diarrhea. |
| 1997 |
18 |
6/12/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 336: 1738-1745 |
Diffuse large-B-cell lymphoma of the colon. Small-B-cell chronic lymphocytic lueukemia in lymph nodes. Paracolonic fibrosis, extensive, probably radiation-induced. |
Gastroenterology/Abdominal Surgery; Hematology/Oncology |
A 78-year-old man admitted because of a stricture of the sigmoid colon. |
| 1997 |
19 |
6/19/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 336: 1812-1819 |
Squamous-cell carcinoma, involving the tongue, lung, heart and pericardium, liver, and penis, metastatic probably from tongue, with pericardial constriction. |
Hematology/Oncology; Pediatrics |
A 57-year-old man admitted because of progressive edema and exertional dyspnea. |
| 1997 |
20 |
6/26/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 336: 1895-1902 |
Papillary adenocarcinoma of lung (asbestos related) with marked pleural mesothelial hyperplasia. |
Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery |
A 74-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of increasing dyspnea and a cough. |
| 1997 |
21 |
7/10/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 337: 115-122 |
Hodgkin's disease, nodular-sclerosis type, with paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration. |
Hematology/Oncology Neurology/Neurosurgery |
A 67-year-old woman was admitted because of progressive choreiform disorder. |
| 1997 |
22 |
7/17/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 337: 184-190 |
Botulism. |
Infectious Disease |
A 58-year-old right handed woman was admitted because of multiple cranial neuropathies. |
| 1997 |
23 |
7/24/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 337: 260-267 |
Galactosialidosis. |
OB/Gyn; Pediatrics; Cardiology/Cardiac Surgery |
A newborn girl was admitted to intensive care because of premature birth and congenital ascites. |
| 1997 |
24 |
7/31/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 337: 329-336 |
Duodenal submucosal lipoma with intussusception. |
Gastroenterology/Abdominal Surgery; Pediatrics |
A 6-year-old boy was admitted because of abdominal pain with vomiting and weight loss. |
| 1997 |
25 |
8/14/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 337: 480-489 |
Busulfan pneumonitis. |
Hematology/Oncology; Nephrology; Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery |
A 60 -year-old man was admitted because of a pulmonary infiltrate. |
| 1997 |
26 |
8/21/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 337: 549-556 |
Progressive supranuclear palsy. |
Neurology/Neurosurgery |
A 64-year-old man was admitted to the Memory Disorders Clinic because of progressive dementia, seizures, and an unstable gait. |
| 1997 |
27 |
8/28/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 337: 619-627 |
Granulomatous Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia with cavitation. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). |
Infectious Disease; Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery |
A 38-year-old man was admitted because of increasing dyspnea, chest pain, and an undiagnosed pulmonary process. |
| 1997 |
28 |
9/11/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 337: 770-777 |
Thrombotic nonbacterial endocarditis of the aortic valve, with cerebral, renal, and splenic emboli and multiple infarcts. Carcinoma of ovary, serious, stage IV. Carcinoma of the breast, bilateral. |
Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery; Hematology/Oncology; Cardiology/Cardiac Surgery; OB/Gyn |
A 67-year-old woman was admitted because of nausea and increasing confusion. |
| 1997 |
29 |
9/18/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 337: 839-845 |
Skeletal, muscle infarction associated with diabetes mellitus. |
Orthopedics/Musculoskeletal |
A 54-year-old woman was admitted because of pain and swelling of the right leg. |
| 1997 |
30 |
9/25/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 337: 916-924 |
Pulmonary interstitial emphysema , localized, persistent. |
Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery; Pediatrics; OB/Gyn |
An 18-day-old girl was admitted because of a left pneumothorax and cystic changes in the left lung. |
| 1997 |
31 |
10/9/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 337: 1065-1074 |
Post-transplantation lymphoproliferative disorder, monomorphic B-cell type, with bronchiolitis obliterans. |
Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery |
A 67-year-old man was admitted because of fever and dyspnea. |
| 1997 |
32 |
10/16/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 337: 1149-1156 |
Rocky Mountain spotted fever with meningoencephalitis, alomyelitis, vasculitis, and focal myocarditis. |
Neurology/Neurosurgery Infectious Disease; Vascular Medicine; Cardiology |
A 43-year-old woman was admitted in early June because of possible adult respiratory distress syndrome. |
| 1997 |
33 |
10/23/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 337: 1220-1226 |
Foreign-body reaction, due to inhalation, with purulent bronchiectasis and chronic organizing pneumonia. |
Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery; Primary Care; Ear, Nose & Throat |
A 75-year-old man with chest pain, hemoptysis, and a pulmonary lesion. |
| 1997 |
34 |
10/30/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 337: 1293-1301 |
Sickle cell anemia. Aseptic necrosis of femoral head and pulmonary bone marrow and fat embolism to the lungs. extensive with superimposed thrombosis. Chronic and accute cor pulmonale. |
Hematology/Oncology; Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery; Orthopedics/Musculoskeletal |
A 22-year-old man was admitted because of respiratory distress and fever. |
| 1997 |
35 |
11/13/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 337: 1449-1458 |
Wegener's granulomatosis. Amiodarone-induced pneumonitis. |
Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery |
A 65-year-old woman was admitted because of a persistent dry cough, diarrhea, and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation with orthostatic hypotension. |
| 1997 |
36 |
11/20/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 337: 1532-1540 |
Fulminant colitis and toxic megacolon complicating subtotal ulcerative colitis. |
Gastroenterology/Abdominal Surgery |
A 58-year-old man with ulcerative colitis was admitted because of bloody stools and fever. |
| 1997 |
37 |
11/27/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 337: 1612-1619 |
Whipple's disease, involving the small intestine and mesenteric and mediastinal lymph nodes. |
Hematology/Oncology; Gastroenterology/Abdominal Surgery |
A 58-year-old man was admitted because of anorexia, fatigue, weight loss, and a mediastinal mass. |
| 1997 |
38 |
12/11/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 337: 1753-1760 |
Accute erythroleukemia (chemotherapy-related). Hodgkin's disease (treated). Relapsing polychondritis. |
Hematology/Oncology; Ear, Nose & Throat; Orthopedics/Musculoskeletal |
A 41-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of fever of three weeks' duration. |
| 1997 |
39 |
12/18/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 337: 1829-1837 |
Diffuse, large-B-cell type lymphoma, with subarachnoid and peripheral nerve involvement (neurolymphomatosis). |
Hematology/Oncology; Orthopedics/Musculoskeletal |
A 67-year-old woman was admitted because of back pain and weakness of the legs. |
| 1997 |
40 |
12/25/1997 |
N Engl J Med 1997; 337: 1904-1912 |
Accute megakaryoblastic leukemia (accute myeloid leukemia, M7 type). Mediastinal germ cell tumor with focal megakaryoblastic differentiation. |
Hematology/Oncology |
A 23-year-old man was admitted for treatment of a mediastinal tumor. |
| 1998 |
1 |
1/15/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 338: 112-119 |
Cat scratch disease with encephalitis (Bartonella quintana) |
Pediatrics |
A 11-year-old right-handed boy was admitted to the hospital because of a seizure. |
| 1998 |
2 |
1/22/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 338: 180-188 |
Organizing subdural hygroma (consistent with the presence of spontaneous intracranial hypotension). |
Neurology/Neurosurgery |
A 50-year-old right-handed woman was admitted to the hospital with worsening headache and a left abducent-nerve palsey. |
| 1998 |
3 |
1/29/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 338: 248-254 |
Peritoneum tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) |
OB/Gyn |
A 31-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of fever, cough, questionable pneumonia of the lower left lobe with a left pleural effusion, and ascites. |
| 1998 |
4 |
2/12/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 338: 313-319 |
Eales' disease with mediastinal tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) |
Ophthalmology |
A 32-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of unilateral vitreous hemorright-handedage and mediastinal lymphadenopwas admitted to the hospitaly. |
| 1998 |
5 |
2/19/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 338: 453-461 |
Myelodysplastic syndrome (refractory anemia with excess blasts in transformation) with immature myeloid cells infiltrating the lungs. Desquamative interstitial pneumonitis. |
Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery |
A 51-year-old man with refractory anemia and excess blasts in transformation was admitted to the hospital because of fever, dyspnea, and a pulmonary infiltrate. |
| 1998 |
6 |
2/26/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 338: 532-539 |
Hemophilia A with hemarthrosis |
Hematology/Oncology |
A 6-year-old boy was admitted to the hospital because of a painful hip. |
| 1998 |
7 |
3/12/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 338: 603-610 |
Dementia with Lewy bodies. Anaplastic astrocytoma involvingthe right temporal region. |
Neurology/Neurosurgery |
A 74-year-old right-handed man was admitted to the hospital because of slowly progressive motor and cognitive difficulties and a right insular lesion. |
| 1998 |
8 |
3/19/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 338: 747-754 |
Sarcoidosis, involving the spinal cord and mediastinal lymph nodes. |
Neurology/Neurosurgery |
A 41-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of leg weakness and mediastinal lyphadenopwas admitted to the hospitaly. |
| 1998 |
9 |
3/26/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 338: 821-826 |
Amniotic fluid embolism, placenta accreta with focal placenta increta. Uterus rupture during delivery. |
OB/Gyn |
A 38-year-old woman (gravida 5, para 1) was admitted to the hospital in spontaneous labor. |
| 1998 |
10 |
4/9/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 338: 897-903 |
Syphilitic aortitis with coronary ostial stenosis . |
Cardiology/Cardiac Surgery |
A 46-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of unstable angina pectoris. |
| 1998 |
11 |
4/16/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 338: 1051-1058 |
Respiratory bronchiolitis with peribronchiolitis with smooth-muscle hyperplasia and emphysema. |
Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery |
A 35-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of obstructive pulmonary disease with cystic changes on computed tomographic (CT) examination of the chest. |
| 1998 |
12 |
4/23/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 338: 1138-1143 |
Xanthoma disseminatum involving skin, larynx and pituitary gland. |
Dermatology |
A 68-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of laryngeal stenosis. |
| 1998 |
13 |
4/30/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 338: 1212-1219 |
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculopathy. |
Neurology/Neurosurgery |
A 23-year-old man was seen in clinic because of progressive weakness and paresthesias. |
| 1998 |
14 |
5/14/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 338: 1293-1301 |
Lymphocytic interstitial pneumonitis with primary biliary cirrhosis |
Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery |
A 49-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of interstitial lung disease. |
| 1998 |
15 |
5/21/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 338: 1448-1456 |
Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. |
Neurology/Neurosurgery |
A 34-year-old right-handed woman was admitted to the hospital because of progressive confusion and visual loss. |
| 1998 |
16 |
5/28/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 338: 1527-1535 |
Psittacosis with atypical pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome |
Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery |
A 24-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of acute respiratory distress syndrome. |
| 1998 |
17 |
6/11/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 338: 1608-1616 |
Cardiac-allograft arterioscerosis, with old and accute myocardial infarction, and a cardiac failure. |
Cardiology/Cardiac Surgery |
A 53-year-old man was admitted to the hospital with left ventricular dysfunction four years after receiving a cardiac transplant. |
| 1998 |
18 |
6/18/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 338: 1752-1758 |
Severe combined immunodeficiency due to adenosine deaminase deficiency . |
Hematology/Oncology |
A 54-day-old girl was admitted to the hospital because of recurrent respiratory distress and failure to gain weight. |
| 1998 |
19 |
6/25/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 338: 1830-1836 |
Clostridium difficile reactive arthritis. |
Immunology/Allergy |
A 70-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of polyarthritis. |
| 1998 |
20 |
7/9/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 338: 1905-1913 |
Cardiac and pulmonary amyloidosis with alveolar-septal and vascular involvement in the lung, consistent with primary systemic type. Pulmonary hematoma, ? due to amyloid angiopathy. |
Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery; Vascular Medicine; Cardiology |
A 53-year-old man with cardiac amyloidosis was admitted to the hospital because of hemoptysis and a pulmonary lesion. |
| 1998 |
21 |
7/16/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 339: 105-112 |
Rabies. |
Infectious Disease |
A 32-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of paresthesias and pharyngeal spasms. |
| 1998 |
22 |
7/23/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 339: 182-190 |
Becker's muscular dystrophy involving skeletal muscle and myocardium. |
Neurology/Neurosurgery |
A 22-year-old man was seen in the neurology clinic because of an unexplained creatine kinase elevation. |
| 1998 |
23 |
7/30/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 339: 254-261 |
High-grade B-cell lymphoma involving the bone marrow, spleen, retroperitoneum, mediastinum, pancreas, meninges and nerve roots. Fat embolism pulmonary and systemic associated with malignant lymphoma and corticosteroid treatment, with bone marrow with bone |
Hematology/Oncology |
A 74-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of recurrent lymphoma, with paraplegia. |
| 1998 |
24 |
8/13/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 339: 329-337 |
Cholesterol embolism involving the gastrointestinal tract (and causing the blue-toe syndrome). |
Primary Care |
A 76-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of gastrointestinal blood loss and worsening anemia. |
| 1998 |
25 |
8/20/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 339: 459-466 |
Necrosis of the anterolateral papillary muscle of the left ventricle, with mitral regurgitation (after aortic-valve replacement because of acute endocarditis ). |
Cardiology/Cardiac Surgery |
A 39 -year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of worsening dyspnea and increasing mitral regurgitation after replacement of the aortic valve for acute bacterial endocarditis. |
| 1998 |
26 |
8/27/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 339: 542-549 |
Demyelinating process consistent with the presence of multiple sclerosis. |
Neurology/Neurosurgery |
A 15-year-old right-handed girl was admitted to the hospital because of hemiparesis, slurred speech and urinary retention. |
| 1998 |
27 |
9/10/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 339: 616-622 |
Eosinophilic cystitis. |
Urology |
A 10-year-old girl was admitted to the hospital because of urinary retention. |
| 1998 |
28 |
9/17/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 339: 755-763 |
Wegener's granulomatosis with involvement of sinuses skull and cranial nerves. |
Immunology/Allergy |
A 64-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of a productive cough during treatment for a suspected Wegener's granulomatosis. |
| 1998 |
29 |
9/24/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 339: 831-837 |
Granulomatous hepatitis due to intravesical instillation of BCG for urinary bladder carcinoma. |
Infectious Disease |
A 57-year-old man referred to this hospital because of fever and jaundice. |
| 1998 |
30 |
10/8/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 339: 906-913 |
Glomerulopathy with preeclampsia and the nephrotic syndrome in a patient with a history of disseminated lupus erythematosus. Small, hypermature placenta with decided necrotizing vasculopathy. |
OB/Gyn; Vascular Medicine |
A 30-year-old woman (gravida 2, para 0) was admitted to the hospital at 27 weeks' gestation because of increasing hypertension and proteinuria. |
| 1998 |
31 |
10/15/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 339: 1144-1151 |
Foreign body aspiration with bronchiectasis and pulmonary atelectasis and fibrosis. |
Pediatrics |
An 8-year-old boy was admitted to the hospital because of a history of respiratory problems and evidence of bronchiectasis. |
| 1998 |
32 |
10/22/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 339: 1228-1236 |
Chronic necrotozing pulmonary aspergillosis, with elements of bronchocentric granulomatosis. |
Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery |
An 83-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of asthma complicated by pneumonia that was unresponsive to antibiotic treatment. |
| 1998 |
33 |
10/29/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 339: 1308-1317 |
Atypical lupus nephritis with extensive tubulointerstiial immune deposits. Accute tubular necrosis. Lupus necrotizing lymphadenitis. |
Immunology/Allergy |
A 29-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of necrotizing lymnphadenitis followed by nephrotic syndrome. |
| 1998 |
34 |
11/12/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 339: 1457-1465 |
Acute bacterial endocarditis (due to Staphylococcus aureus infection), involving the aortic and mitral valves with subannular abcess, the formation of fistulas between the atria and between the right atrium and left ventricle, and involvement of the bundl |
Cardiology/Cardiac Surgery |
A 71-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of fever, dyspnea, and hypotension. |
| 1998 |
35 |
11/19/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 339: 1534-1541 |
Sarcoidosis involving spinal cord, brain, lung and mediastinal lymph nodes. |
Neurology/Neurosurgery |
A 54-year-old, left-handed woman was admitted to the hospital because of pain and parwas admitted to the hospitalesias in the legs and a gait disturbance. |
| 1998 |
36 |
11/26/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 339: 1619-1626 |
Kawasaki's disease with myocarditis, coronary artery dilatation and renal failure. |
Pediatrics |
A 11-year-old girl was admitted to the hospital because of fever, hypotension, and azotemia. |
| 1998 |
37 |
12/10/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 339: 1766-1772 |
Thrombocytopenia with iron-deficiency anemia ? due to ranitidine therapy |
Hematology/Oncology |
A 41-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of thrombocytopenia and anemia. |
| 1998 |
38 |
12/17/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 339: 1835-1843 |
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) with disseminated histoplasmosis. |
Infectious Disease |
A 19-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of a febrile illness. |
| 1998 |
39 |
12/24/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 339: 1914-1923 |
Encephalopathy syndrome of mitochondrial encephalopathy lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) |
Neurology/Neurosurgery |
A 13-year-old right-handed girl was admitted to the hospital because of a relapsing-remitting neurological disorder. |
| 1998 |
40 |
12/31/1998 |
N Engl J Med 1998; 339: 2005-2012 |
Transfusion-related acute lung injury. Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. |
Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery |
A 49-year-old right-handed woman was admitted to the hospital because of a hemorright-handedagic stroke and mutism. |
| 1999 |
1 |
1/14/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 340: 127 -135 |
Acute hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis |
Neurology/Neurosurgery |
A 53-year-old right handed man was admitted to the hospital in December because of fever and an altered mental state. |
| 1999 |
2 |
1/21/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 340: 215-221 |
Acute pancreatitis complicating inflammatory bowel disease, probably ulcerative colitis |
Pediatrics; Gastroenterology; Gastroenterology/Abdominal Surgery; Pediatrics |
A 15-year-old girl was referred to the hoispital because of abdominal pain and bloody stools. |
| 1999 |
3 |
1/28/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 340: 300-307 |
Hepatitis C. Type II cryoglobulinemia. Vasculitis. B-Cell lymphoma, low grade. (Mononeuritis multiplex). |
Neurology; Infectious Disease; Hematology/Oncology |
A 41-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of muscle weakness, painful paresthesias, and transient visual problems. |
| 1999 |
4 |
2/11/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 340: 455-464 |
Scleroderma overlap syndrome with pulmonary vasculopathy and malignant pulmonary hypertension accelerated during puerperium. |
Cardiology; Pulmonary; OB/Gyn; Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery |
A 38-year-old woman (gravida 3, para 2) was admitted to the hospital because of left-sided chest pain. |
| 1999 |
5 |
2/18/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 340: 545-554 |
Tuberculosis, disseminated, with lymph-node involvement. HIV infection, acute seroconversion. |
Infectious Disease; Pulmonary |
A 37-year-old man was admitted because of fever, chills, and diffuse lymphadenopathy. |
| 1999 |
6 |
2/25/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 340: 635 -641 |
(Cogan's syndrome). Panaortitis, chronic, active, with segmental medial necrosis and aneurysmal formation. (Aortic insufficiency). |
Rheumatology; Cardiology; Opthamology; Cardiology/Cardiac Surgery |
A 17 1/2-year-old girl was admitted to the hospital because of thoracoabdominal aneurysm. |
| 1999 |
7 |
3/11/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 340: 789-796 |
Cutaneous melanoma metastasized to the gastrointestinal tract, with protein-losing enteropathy. Adrenal cortical adenoma. |
Oncology; Hematology/Oncology |
A 50-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of diarrhea that had developed during radiation treatment. |
| 1999 |
8 |
3/18/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 340: 869-876 |
Enteric fever due to Salmonella typhi. |
Infectious Disease |
A 28-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of gram-negative sepsis. |
| 1999 |
9 |
3/25/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 340: 945-953 |
Wegener's granulomatosis with pachymeningeal granulomatous inflammation. |
Neurology/Neurosurgery; Infectious Disease |
A 75-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of weakness and a tendency to fall. |
| 1999 |
10 |
4/8/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 340: 1099-1106 |
Signet-ring-cell carcinoma of the stomach, with widespread metastases, including leptomeningeal carcinomatosis. Disseminated intravascular coagulation. Cerebral cortico-subcortical infarcts. |
Oncology; Gastroenterology, Pulmonary; Neurology; Hematology/Oncology; Neurosurgery , Gastroenterology/Abdominal Surgery |
A 53-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of acute renal failure, with cortical blindness and respiratory distress. |
| 1999 |
11 |
4/15/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 340: 1188-1196 |
High-grade, Burkitt-like B-cell lymphoma, probably arising in soft tissue. Nocardosis. |
Oncology; Orthopaedics; Hematology/Oncology; Gastroenterology/Abdominal Surgery |
A 60-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of lumbar pain and incontinence of the bladder and bowel. |
| 1999 |
12 |
4/22/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 340: 1269-1277 |
Multisystem neurodegenerative disease (characterized by neurofibrillary changes and few plaques), findings consistent with dementia pugilistica. |
Neurology/Neurosurgery |
A 67-year-old right handed man was admitted to the hospital because of increasing dementia. |
| 1999 |
13 |
4/29/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 340: 1349-1354 |
Tuberculosis otitis media. |
Otolaryngology, Infectious Disease |
A 20-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of chronic right otitis media. |
| 1999 |
14 |
5/13/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 340: 1491-1497 |
Lupus lymphadenitis consistent with the presence of systemic lupus erythematosus. |
Pediatrics; Rheumatology; Immunology/Allergy |
A nine-year-old girl was admitted to the hospital because of fever and cervical lymphadenopathy. |
| 1999 |
15 |
5/20/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 340: 1571-1579 |
Dissecting aortic aneurysm, with rupture into the epicardium, interatrial septum, right ventricular outflow tract, and lungs. Acute myocardial infarction of the right ventricular outflow tract. Severe coronary artery disease. Moderate cardiac and pulmo |
Cardiology/Cardiac Surgery; Endocrinology; Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery |
A 77-year-old man wa admitted to the hospital because of syncope and hemoptysis. |
| 1999 |
16 |
5/27/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 340: 1661-1669 |
Lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma with motor neuronopathy. Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia. |
Neurology; Hematology/Oncology; Neurosurgery |
A 71-year-old right-handed man was admitted to the hospital because of progressive muscle weakness and difficulty swallowing. |
| 1999 |
17 |
6/10/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 340: 1819-1826 |
Sepsis due to Capnocytophaga canimorus infection, complicating asplenia. |
Infectious Disease; Dermatology |
A 42-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of gram-negative sepsis. |
| 1999 |
18 |
6/17/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 340: 1900-1908 |
Antiphospholipid-antibody syndrome, with ischemic renal damage and acute interstitial nephritis. |
Nephrology |
A 54-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of acute renal failure and thrombocytopenia. |
| 1999 |
19 |
6/24/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 340: 198-1988 |
Cryptococcal osteomyelitis. |
Orthopedics/Musculoskeletal; Infectious Disease; Transplantation |
A 55-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of a painful right tibial lesion. |
| 1999 |
20 |
7/8/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 341: 110-116 |
Systemic lupus erythematosus with features of Wegener's granulomatosis. |
Pediatrics; Rheumatology; Immunology/Allergy; Ophthalmology |
A 16-year-old girl was admitted to the hospital because of fever, rash, and severe ocular disease. |
| 1999 |
21 |
7/15/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 341: 182-190 |
Pulmonary talcosis , with liquified mineral in a cavitated tumor-like mass, granulomatous inflammation, and sclerosis. |
Pulmonary; Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery |
A 69-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of the radiologic finding of pulmonary nodules. |
| 1999 |
22 |
7/22/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 341: 265-273 |
Mucormycosis of the nose, sinuses and orbit (rhizopus infection). Multiple myeloma. (Diabetes mellitus). |
Ear Nose & Throat; Infectious Disease; Ophthalmology |
A 68-year-old woman with refractory multiple myeloma was admitted to the hospital because of pancytopenia with bleeding. |
| 1999 |
23 |
7/29/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 341: 353-360 |
Pulmonary tuberculosis, infantile. |
Pediatrics; Pulmonary; Infectious Disease |
A 10-month-old girl was admitted to the hospital because of fever and a rash. |
| 1999 |
24 |
8/12/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 341: 512-519 |
Multifocal inflammatory leukoencephalopathy related to combination chemotherapy with fluorouracil and levamisole. |
Neurology; Opthamology; NeuroSurgery; Hematology,/Oncology |
A 65-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of impaired cognition and a gait disorder. |
| 1999 |
25 |
8/19/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 341: 593-599 |
Familial Mediterranean Fever. |
Pediatrics; Gastroenterology; Gastroenterology/Abdominal Surgery |
A 16-year-old boy presented to the hospital as an outpatient because of recurrent abdominal pain. |
| 1999 |
26 |
8/26/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 341: 679-684 |
Pancreatic heterotopia involving the gastric pylorus, with acute pancreatitis. (Hypertrophic pyloric obstruction). |
Pediatrics; Surgery; Gastroenterology/Abdominal Surgery |
A three-week-old girl was admitted tothe hospital for the treatment of hypertrophic pyloric stenosis. |
| 1999 |
27 |
9/9/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 341: 827-834 |
Miliary tuberculosis, with granulomatous hepatitis. |
Pulmonary; Infectious Disease |
An 82-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and acute renal failure. |
| 1999 |
28 |
9/16/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 341: 901-908 |
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. |
Neurology/Neurosurgery |
A 68-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of rapidly progressive dementia and a gait disorder. |
| 1999 |
29 |
9/23/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 341: 974-982 |
Bilateral pulmonary echinococcal cysts. |
Pulmonary; Infectious Disease; Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery |
A 34-year-old woman was referred to the hospital because of an intermittent cough and hemoptysis. |
| 1999 |
30 |
9/30/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 341: 1063-1071 |
Diffuse large-B-cell lymphoma of the ileum. |
Gastroenterology/Abdominal Surgery; Hematology/Oncology |
An 86-year-old man was admitted because of gastrointestinal bleeding with abdominal pain. |
| 1999 |
31 |
10/14/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 341: 1217-1224 |
Cardiac hamartoma of the left ventricle (with wide-complex tachycardia). |
Cardiology/Cardiac Surgery |
A 33-year-old man admitted because of a wide-complex tachycardia. |
| 1999 |
32 |
10/21/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 341: 1292-1299 |
Tracheopathia osteoplastica |
Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery |
A 44-year-old man was admitted because of tracheal stenosis. |
| 1999 |
33 |
10/28/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 341: 1379-1385 |
Lipoid pneumonia. |
Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery |
A 57-year-old woman was admitted because of a pulmonary mass in the left lower lobe. |
| 1999 |
34 |
11/11/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 341: 1529-1537 |
Celiac disease with hepatic abnormalities. Duodenitis, erosive. |
Gastroenterology/Abdominal Surgery |
A 37-year-old woman was referred to the gastro-intestinal unit because of abnormal results of liver function tests. |
| 1999 |
35 |
11/18/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 341: 1597-1603 |
Juvenile capillary hemangioma of the stomach. |
Gastroenterology/Abdominal Surgery; Pediatrics |
A five-month-old girl was admitted to the hospital because of coffee-grounds vomitus and a gastric lesion. |
| 1999 |
36 |
11/25/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 341: 1680-1685 |
Subdiaphragmatic extralobar sequestration of the lung with congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation. |
Pediatrics; Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery |
A 32-day-old girl was admitted to the hospital because of a retroperitoneal mass. |
| 1999 |
37 |
12/9/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 341: 1829-1835 |
Thrombosis of St. Jude Medical aortic valve. Hemorrhage of the right inferior parietal lobule. Coronary artery disease. Healed posterior, septal myocardial infarct. |
Cardiology/Cardiac Surgery |
A 72-year-old, right handed woman was admitted to the hospital because of slurred speech and agitation. |
| 1999 |
38 |
12/16/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 341: 1913-1921 |
Pseudoaneurysms, infective (Staphylococcus aureus) of the right external iliac and common femoral arteries following catheterization of the right femoral artery. Septic arthritis and osteomyelitis of right ankle (calcaneus and fibula). |
Immunology/Allergy; Orthopedics/Musculoskeletal; Infectious Disease |
A 62-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of a foot infection |
| 1999 |
39 |
12/23/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 341: 1996-2003 |
Guillain-Barre' syndrome. Campylobacter jejuni enteritis. |
Infectious Disease; Neurology/Neurosurgery |
A 74-year-old woman with acute progressive paralysis after diarrhea for one week. |
| 1999 |
40 |
12/30/1999 |
N Engl J Med 1999; 341: 2075-2083 |
Cellular interstitial pneumonitis. |
Pulmonary/Thoracic Surgery |
A four-month-old girl with chronic cyanosis and diffuse pulmonary infiltrates. |
