A painful discovery

Expert Discovery: A web mining approach

Expert discovery is a quest in search of finding an answer to a question: “Who is the best expert of a specific subject in a particular domain within peculiar array of parameters?” Expert with domain knowledge in any field is crucial for consulting in industry, academia and scientific community. Aim of this study is to address the issues for expert-finding task in real-world community. Collabor...

Incisional Endometriosis: A Rare Case of Painful Scar

Scar endometriosis is a rare form of extra-pelvic endometriosis that can occur after surgery involving the uterus. Direct mechanical implantation seems to be the most conceivable theory for scar endometriosis. Patient usually presents with lump and pain at surgical site. Often the diagnosis of endometriosis is not suggested until histology has been performed. We hereby present a case of scar en...

Systematic Analysis of Painful Total Knee Prosthesis, a Diagnostic Algorithm

A Painful, Blistering Rash

Supervising Section Editor: Sean O. Henderson, MD Submission history: Submitted July 1, 2013; Accepted July 15, 2013 Electronically published October 9, 2013 Full text available through open access at http://escholarship.org/uc/uciem_westjem DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2013.7.18845 [West J Emerg Med. 2013;14(6):645.] David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Department of ...

A painful shoulder.

Diagnosis: Clostridium perfringens septic arthritis. Although the initial Gram stain of the sample of purulent material obtained from the patient’s shoulder (figure 1) revealed only rare gram-variable rods with no neutrophils, the culture eventually grew C. perfringens. The “double zone” of hemolysis seen in figure 2 is very characteristic of C. perfringens. The zone of partial hemolysis is due...