Archives of internal medicine

BackgroundLittle information exists about current patient perceptions of medical mistakes in ambulatory care within a diverse population. We aimed to learn about the perceptions of medical mistakes, what factors were associated with perceiv…

BACKGROUND: An association between melanoma and endometriosis has been reported, but most findings relied on case-control studies or a limited number of melanoma cases, and therefore the available evidence is weak. Moreover, the effect of o…

Intestinal endometriosis mimics a wide variety of inflammatory, infectious, or neoplastic digestive diseases. To alert clinicians to its diverse manifestations, we describe nine patients who required laparotomy. The underlying diagnosis was…

Three women had endometriosis that involved the rectosigmoid colon; their clinical presentation suggested primary colonic malignant neoplasm. Intestinal obstruction, weight loss, and, in two patients, rectal bleeding with radiologic evidenc…

Danazol is a semisynthetic androgen that is used in the treatment of endometriosis and hereditary angioedema. Although fluid retention and weight gain are well-known complictaions of danazol therapy, to our knowledge hypertension has not be…

A 60-year-old patient with cyclic hemoptysis for 30 years was found to have bronchiectasis that was not present when hemoptysis began. Thoracic endometriosis and its possible relationship to bronchiectasis are discussed.

The association of pheochromocytoma and acromegaly has been described in three patients prior to the present report. 1-3 Both diseases were recognized concurrently in only one of these cases. 3 In the other two instances, they were recogniz…