Akavut Chaiwoot Suesakul, MD; Donald Woznica, MD; Valerie C. Hines, MD; Alexander K.C. Leung, MD, MBBS, FRCPC, FRCP
<p>A 3-month-old girl was brought to the emergency department with fever (temperature, maximum of&nbsp;40ºC [104ºF]) of 2 days’ duration and a vesicular rash on the neck that had appeared 2 days...
William Yaakob, MD; Roli Agrawal, MD; Sarah Kizilbash, MD
<p>A 14-year-old soccer player presents with pain in his left lower leg of 4 weeks’ duration. The pain is constant, although initially it occurred only while playing. He denies any fever or...
Eric Peeples, MD; Archana Chatterjee, MD, PhD; Anthony Yaghmour, MD; Meera Varman, MD
<p>A 4-year-old Latino boy with mosaic Turner syndrome (45,XY/45,XO) presented with fever, temperature up to 40.5ºC (105ºF), of 3 days’ duration. He also had swelling on the right side of&nbsp;the...
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #ff0000"><SPAN style="COLOR: #000000">Excitement at the birth of a new baby and eagerness to begin life with baby at home often&nbsp;lead new...
<p>Before listening to the chest of a child who does not understand how to take a deep breath, I ask the child to demonstrate how to breathe like a puppy. The child&nbsp;<span>starts...
<p>Sometimes it is impossible to see beyond the tongue of a child who has a sore throat. The tongues of about 30% of my pediatric patients do not go down when they say “Ahh.” However, when I instruct...
<p>Beginning with the oldest, calmest patient, I auscultate the heart, lung, and abdomen. I do the same for each patient working my way to the youngest—and typically most anxious—child. Following the...
<p>This 17-year-old boy has had a thickening of his skin with hypopigmentation on the right side of his neck for the past 6 months. The area of thickening has slowly enlarged and is asymptomatic. The...
<P>The mother of a 3-month-old boy brought her baby for evaluation of a generalized rash of 3 weeks’ duration. She had a similar severely itchy rash on her right shoulder and abdomen. The pruritus was...
<p>Medication adherence is a complex problem that is poorly understood and under-researched, especially in children and adolescents. It is a clear barrier to effective treatment that is frequently...
