Neonatology

A 4-month-old girl was transferred to our hospital from her primary care physician’s office with concern for worsening feeding intolerance and poor weight gain. The girl had been born preterm at 26 weeks of...

A 2-week-old girl had been born to a 28-year-old gravida 2, para 1 mother at 39 weeks of gestation following normal spontaneous vaginal delivery. The mother was concerned that the umbilicus of the infant...

A 1-month-old boy was referred because of asymmetry of the lower extremities, with the left lower extremity larger than the right. The size discrepancy had been first noted at birth.

A 3-week-old girl was brought to the clinic with a 2-day history of a scalp swelling. There had been no noticeable change in the size of the swelling or its location since its discovery. The swelling did...

A 5-year-old girl with a history of premature birth presented to her primary care pediatrician for her annual well-child check. On physical examination, an elongated, swollen, crooked left middle finger was...

A 12-month-old boy presented to a local emergency department with a 2-hour history of a protruding anal mass that had been incidentally noted when his parents had changed his diaper after a bowel movement....

A 2-month-old African American girl presented for a routine well-child visit. Her parents had noticed brown horizontal lines across her abdomen that had been present since birth.

A 3-day-old boy was noted to have a bump near his left lower eyelid. The neonate had been born after an uneventful pregnancy, and his parents had noticed the mass immediately after delivery.

Ear malformations can be isolated defects or can be associated with other anomalies. Congenital atresia of the auricle, or microtia, impairs the functionality of the external auditory canal and the ossicles...

Neonatal mastitis is a rare complication of physiological breast hypertrophy in the newborn period.