Diagnosing Common Benign Skin Tumors.

Patients will experience a wide range of skin growths and changes over their lifetime. Family physicians should be able to distinguish potentially malignant from benign skin tumors. Most lesions can be diagnosed on the basis of history and clinical examination.

When to worry about incidental renal and adrenal masses.

Greater use of imaging has led to a corresponding rise in the detection of renal and adrenal incidentalomas-and left many primary care physicians unsure of what to do about the masses they've found.

The 'crashing asthmatic.'.

Asthma is a common chronic disorder, with a prevalence of 8 to 10 percent in the U.S. population.

Case management of asthma for family practice patients: a pilot study.

Objective: Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways that affects between 14 and 15 million persons in the United States. It is responsible for more than 470,000 hospitalizations annually and an estimated $6 billion in total medical cost. The Asthma Case Management Program instituted at our hospital is based on the concept of patient self-management.