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A 64-year-old man presented to the emergency room with fever, chills, nausea, malaise, and left-leg pain that had lasted for four days. For the past two days he had been unable to lift his left leg.

I assume he has been unable to lift his left leg because of pain. Acute pain that limits the ability to move a leg makes me think about a vascular catastrophe, trauma, or a fracture. We don't have a lot of history, except a nonspecific febrile illness that may or may not involve the gastrointestinal tract.

He had a right-hip fracture surgically repaired 35 . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 1400 VFW Pky., West Roxbury, MA 02132, where reprint requests should be addressed to Dr. Thibault.

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