This child has fever, neck pain, sore throat, and large cervical lymphadenopathy, which may indicate bacterial lymphadenitis. You order blood cultures, urinalysis, streptococcal rapid test and culture ...

There are different types of neck pain that can affect your muscles, nerves, or other nearby tissues. Each has different causes and different treatments that might be effective. Neck pain may result ...

A 55-year-old man with a history of hypertension and migraines is sent by his primary care provider to the emergency department for a spinal tap to rule out meningitis. He states that he has had a ...

Subacute thyroiditis (SAT) is a type of thyroid gland inflammation. It commonly leads to neck pain and symptoms that affect the body, such as fever and muscle pain. SAT is the most common, painful ...

Spinal epidural abscess (SEA) is a serious infection of the central nervous system that typically presents with midline back pain, fever and neurological deficits. We report a rare case of an ...

A 52-year-old Latin American woman presented to the emergency room with the chief complaint of anterior and left neck pain. The patient first noticed the pain 6 weeks earlier, and initially sought ...

The patient’s symptoms following a one-week tour across Costa Rica indicated a viral illness. But which one? A 38-year-old man presented to the primary-care clinic complaining of persistent fever, ...