TOPIC: Imaging TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Pulmonary nodules are common and usually found incidentally in about 20-50 % Chest Computed Tomography (CT) scans screening trials.[1] Evaluation of is necessary as differential broad includes malignancy, infectious diseases like tuberculosis (TB), hamartomas, sarcoidosis, wegner's granulomatosis, granulomas.[2] There have...

Purpose To report long-term follow-up of a case of paraneoplastic optic neuropathy (PON) successfully treated with combination therapy. Observations We present a confirmed case of PON from cutaneous melanoma with nearly six years of meticulous follow-up in which vision was preserved and disease remission was successfully induced with combination mycophenolate mofetil, prednisone, and plasmaph...

Bullous Pemphigoid (BP) is an autoimmune subepidermal blistering disease appearing predominantly in the elderly. The disease is primarily treated with systemic corticosteroids. However, the treatment can be associated with significant morbidity. Adjuvant corticosteroid sparing therapy can also be associated with significant morbidity. In this study a case of BP which was difficult to control wi...

An estimated 0.9% to 2.4% of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) also have hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH). HLH associated with autoimmune diseases is often refractory to corticosteroid treatment; thus, additional immunosuppressive drugs, such as cyclosporine, cyclophosphamide, or tacrolimus, are required. Here, we describe the case of a 44-year-old Japanese woman who deve...

Optic perineuritis is an uncommon inflammatory disorder of the optic sheath that causes visual loss or eye pain. There are few case reports of optic perineuritis associated with granulomatosis with polyangiitis. Herein we report the case of a 37-year-old male with granulomatosis with polyangiitis and who presented with headache, blurred vision in the right eye, diplopia, and numbness in the rig...

Rituximab and mycophenolate mofetil are used to treat pemphigus vulgaris, but they have not been adequately compared in clinical trials.