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PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen An 82-year-old man with peripheral artery disease (PAD) was evaluated for a painful right foot. Over the past 3 weeks the patient began to have…

PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 55-year-old woman with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), dependent on dialysis for 14 years, presented with multiple highly painful plaques on her abdomen and flank…

PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 40-year-old woman with a history of diabetes presents with red plaques on her shins (Figures 95-1 and 95-2). They are asymptomatic, though continue to…

PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 58-year-old overweight diabetic man presented with bloody drainage from a callous on the plantar aspect of the right first metatarsophalangeal joint (MPJ) for approximately…

PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 47-year-old woman with chronic low back pain presents with a chief complaint of a persistent rash along her posterior trunk. The discoloration has slowly…

PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 60-year-old woman presents with a 3-month history of painful ulceration of her lower left leg. She has a history of congestive heart failure, diabetes,…

PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 52-year-old woman with controlled hypothyroidism presented for symptoms of painful burning and discolored feet. She reported 1 to 2 years of progressive disabling lower…

PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 43-year-old woman presented with severe pain, burning, and swelling of the feet. Her symptoms began 2 days prior after returning from a 7-day camping…

PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 68-year-old woman from Idaho presented in February with complaints of burning, painful reddish-blue skin changes in four of her right and three of her…

PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 48-year-old homeless man presented to the emergency department with bilateral black toes on a subzero temperature morning in January. He states that initially he…