Volume 7 - Issue 10 - October 2008

Consultant for Pediatricians

What's Your Diagnosis?
What's Your Diagnosis?
Healthy Infant With Unusual Indentation in His Gluteal Crease
04/29/2011
Alexander K.C. Leung, MD, MBBS, FRCPC, FRCP; Christy Blake, MSN, CPNP; Golder N. Wilson, MD, PhD
The patient has an unusual sacral crease and sacral dimple.
04/29/2011
pediatric migraine
pediatric migraine
Adolescent With Syncope—Or Something Else?
04/29/2011
Amber Patterson, MD; Ramalinga Reddy, MD
A 16-year-old boy presented for evaluation of asthma and exercise-induced bronchospasm.
04/29/2011
pediatric migraine
pediatric migraine
Ménétrier Disease
04/29/2011
Deepak M. Kamat, MD, PhD; Ron Shaoul, MD; M. Lurie, MD
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04/29/2011
pediatric migraine
pediatric migraine
Keratoconus With Acute Hydrops
04/29/2011
Josephine-Liezl P. Cueto, MD; Jing Cheng Zhao, MD
Keratoconus is a corneal abnormality characterized by a conical shape and central stromal thinning.
04/29/2011
Dermclinic
Dermclinic
Which topical therapy would be best for treating this patient's facial psoriasis?
04/29/2011
By Kirk Barber, MD, FRCPC
 
 
Dr Barber is a consultant dermatologist at Alberta Children's Hospital and clinical associate professor of medicine and community health sciences at the University of Calgary in Alberta.
By Kirk Barber, MD, FRCPC   &n...
This 9-year-old girl has extensive psoriasis and is currently receiving narrowband UVB phototherapy for her body plaques.
04/29/2011
pediatric migraine
pediatric migraine
Controlling Pediatric Migraine—Continued
04/29/2011
Many attempts at showing efficacy in triptan trials in children have been unsuccessful because of the very high rate of placebo response.
04/29/2011
maternal SSRI use on newborns
maternal SSRI use on newborns
New CDC Campaign to Combat MRSA
04/29/2011
It is estimated that 12% of clinical methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections are now community- associated.1 To combat the rising incidence o
04/29/2011
maternal SSRI use on newborns
maternal SSRI use on newborns
Another Potential Effect of Maternal SSRI Use on Newborns
04/29/2011
Larissa Hirsch, MD; Charles A. Pohl, MD
<P>In the newborn nursery, pediatricians commonly encounter infants born to mothers who were receiving selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) for depression during pregnancy.</P>
04/29/2011
allergic reaction
allergic reaction
How Do You Read These Images?
04/29/2011
Eva Ilse Rubio, MD
A 27-month-old girl is brought in for evaluation of hoarseness. She was born prematurely, at 27 weeks' gestation, and spent her first 4 months in the neonatal ICU.
04/29/2011
allergic reaction
allergic reaction
Nickel Dermatitis
04/29/2011
Erin Griffin, BS; Christine Cook, CCRC; Jonathan Stuart Crane, DO, MD
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04/29/2011
sleep in children and youths
sleep in children and youths
Halloweenmania
04/29/2011
Howard Fischer, MD
  
04/29/2011
congenital anomalies
congenital anomalies
Risky Business, Part 2: Communicating Medical Risks to Patients and Parents
04/29/2011
Gregory F. Hayden, MD; Martha A. Hellems, MD
Put yourself in the place of the parent of a 15-month-old girl who is being seen by her pediatrician for a well-child visit and routine immunizations.
04/29/2011