Volume 14 - Issue 12 - December 2015

Consultant for Pediatricians

cataracts
cataracts
Congenital Cataracts
12/30/2015
Michelle Leff, MD, FAAP; Shira L. Robbins, MD
Within a few hours of birth, a neonate was noted to have bilateral leukokoria.
12/30/2015
gastroenteritis
gastroenteritis
Rotavirus Gastroenteritis Presenting Atypically With Ileus
12/30/2015
Melissa Kaori Silva Litao, MD
A 4-year-old boy was transferred to our hospital from another institution for abdominal distention of 1 day’s duration.
12/30/2015
Photoclinic
Photoclinic
Scleral Melanocytosis
12/29/2015
Pavan Bang, MBBS
A 7-year-old boy presented with bluish spots in both eyes that had been present since early childhood.
12/29/2015
stroke
stroke
Neonatal Stroke Induced by Factor V Leiden Mutation
12/29/2015
Lourdes Cohen, MD; Xin Ye, MD
A meconium-stained, nonvigorous girl was born at 41 weeks of gestation via normal, spontaneous vaginal delivery to a 30-year-old, gravida 1, para 1 mother.
12/29/2015
Becker nevus syndrome
Becker nevus syndrome
Becker Nevus Syndrome
12/28/2015
Daniel L. Ivan, MD
A 10-year-old girl presented with her mother for evaluation of a large brown spot that had been present on her right arm since birth.
12/28/2015
scoliosis
scoliosis
Are School Scoliosis Screening Examinations Necessary and Effective?
12/28/2015
Lindsay Nakaishi, MD, MPH; Linda S. Nield, MD
One parent asks whether scoliosis screenings in school are really necessary, and do they make a difference in the health of a child?
12/28/2015
Cellulitis
Cellulitis
Cellulitis and Abscess in a 2-Year-Old’s Cheek: Cutaneous Nocardia Infection
12/28/2015
Richard H. Schwartz, MD, DO; Rebecca Levorson, MD; Salma Haneef, MD
Two days before presenting to his primary care pediatrician, a previously well, 27-month-old boy had developed a solitary papule below his left eye.
12/28/2015
Pain
Pain
Do White Children Receive Better Pain Management Than Black Children Do?
12/28/2015
Jessica Tomaszewski, MD
Racial disparities have been documented in many areas of health care, from emergency department (ED) wait times to hospital admission rates.
12/28/2015
computed tomography
computed tomography
A Teenage Boy With Abdominal Pain After Appendectomy: What Does CT Show?
12/28/2015
Daniel Edberg, MD; Rayhan Lal, MD; Cynthia H. Ho, MD
A 16-year-old boy presented to the emergency department with 2 weeks of worsening lower abdominal pain.
12/28/2015
Plantar corn
Plantar corn
What Is This Adolescent’s Painful, Hyperkeratotic Foot Lesion?
12/28/2015

Alexander K. C. Leung, MD—Series Editor, and Benjamin Barankin, MD

Alexander K. C. Leung, MD—Series Edit...
A 17-year-old male athlete presented with a painful lesion on his right sole of approximately 6 months’ duration.
12/28/2015
Optic neuritis
Optic neuritis
Pediatric Optic Neuritis: An Isolated Finding, or a Sign of Demyelination?
12/28/2015
Massiel Sarmiento, MD; Sergey Prokhorov, MD; Virginia Kaldas, MD
A 17-year-old young male presented to the emergency department with sudden-onset vision loss in his right eye of 1 week’s duration...
12/28/2015
Langerhans Cell
Langerhans Cell
Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis: More Than Just a Simple Headache
12/23/2015
Bensson Samuel, MD, PG Dip, PhD, DBA; Jennifer Axelband, DO; Alden Smith, BA; Gloria Fioravanti, DO; Michael Hughes, BS; Santo Longo, MD; Emily Keeler, DO
An 18-year-old male without a significant medical history presented with 2-day history of swelling of the forehead above the right eye.
12/23/2015
chigger
chigger
A Girl Returns From Summer Camp With an Itchy Rash: What’s the Cause?
12/09/2015
Bann Al-Shammaa, MD; Amy C. Brown, MD, MHS
A mother brought her 8-year-old daughter to the office because of a rash on the girl’s ankle.
12/09/2015