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Abstract Supraglottitis is one possible complication of smoking crack cocaine. From 1992 through 2001, our institution treated nine patients for thermal supraglottitis secondary to crack cocaine inhalation. In this article, [...]

A 50-year-old morbidly obese black man presented with a 6-month history of progressive dyspnea. He denied dysphagia and unexpected weight loss. He was breathing comfortably but with audible inspiratory breath [...]

A 29-year-old woman who worked in the medical field presented to us with a history of bulimia nervosa with bilateral parotid enlargement (figure 1). After undergoing extensive psychological therapy, diet [...]

A 79-year-old woman presented with a large thyroid goiter that had been present for several years. The results of fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) were consistent with papillary thyroid cancer. She [...]

A 55-year-old man was referred by his dermatologist for a left neck mass that had been enlarging over the preceding few months. He had no history of recent trauma or [...]

A 28-year-old man presented with chief complaints of epiphora, intermittent medial canthal swelling and pain, a left lower lid deformity, and poor facial cosmesis. One year earlier, he had been [...]

A 67-year-old woman was referred to us by an infectious disease specialist for evaluation of chronic osteomyelitis of the mandible. She had been diagnosed with and treated for Paget disease [...]

A 60-year-old woman presented with a chief complaint of scarring along the sites of a submental incision and a right preauricular incision that had been made 5 years earlier during [...]

A 39-year-old man presented with a 10-day history of left-sided epistaxis, facial pain, pressure, and nasal congestion. He failed to respond to antibiotic therapy prescribed by his internist. He denied [...]