friday pop quiz

Friday Pop Quiz 7/18/2025
A 45-year-old man presents to the office with weakness and the lesions on his hand pictured. His symptoms have been progressively worsening over the last 5 months. He works as a nurse and has had difficulty walking up the stairs and lifting patients. He has a history of frontal migraines for which he occasionally takes ibuprofen. He takes a cholesterol lowering medication and is otherwise heal …
Friday Pop Quiz 7/11/2025
            A 70-year-old woman with biopsy-confirmed bullous pemphigoid presents with new-onset confusion, hypotension, and leukocytosis two weeks after starting systemic prednisone 60 mg daily. She also reports tremors and blood glucose of 320 mg/dL. What is the next best step in management? A. Taper corticosteroids and begin doxycycline and …
Friday Pop Quiz 6/27/2025
            A patient presents for evaluation of a solitary painful lesion on the shin. She feels well and denies any systemic symptoms. A recent fasting blood glucose was within normal limits. Which of the following is the most likely diagnosis? A. Pretibial myxedema B. Morphea C. Lipodermatosclerosis D. Necrobiotic xanthogranuloma …