[Mastitis as a symptom of malignancy].

Several conditions can mimic the clinical presentation of inflammatory breast cancer. Three women presented with a swollen, red and painful breast which turned out to be inflammatory breast cancer after being treated as infectious mastitis. Non-puerperal bacterial mastitis may be confused with inflammatory breast cancer, leading to potentially preventable delays in diagnosis and treatment.

Superficial temporal artery aneurysm: Diagnosis and treatment options.

Background: Superficial temporal artery (STA) aneurysms are an uncommon entity and mostly described in case studies. The purpose of this review was to show the studied clinical presentation, diagnostic modalities, and treatment modalities of STA aneurysms.

Methods: A review was performed of reports on STA aneurysms published until December 2010, using the MEDLINE and Cochrane databases.

[A man with a painful finger].

A 75-year-old man was referred because of progressive pain and swelling of the left index finger. It appeared the swelling was caused by an osseous metastasis of lung carcinoma.