Case 5-2024: A 36-Year-Old Man with Fevers

Eric A Meyerowitz1, Shambo Guha Roy1, Anne M Neilan1

  • 1From the Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, and Albert Einstein College of Medicine - both in New York (E.A.M.); and the Departments of Radiology (S.G.R.), Pediatrics (A.M.N.), Medicine (A.M.N., D.S.R.), and Pathology (G.K.M.), Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Departments of Radiology (S.G.R.), Pediatrics (A.M.N.), Medicine (A.M.N., D.S.R.), and Pathology (G.K.M.), Harvard Medical School - both in Boston.

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