Mansi Lalwani, MD; Priyanka Kapoor, MD; Maya C. Myslenski, MD; David Effron, MD
<p>An 8-year-old boy presents to your office with persistent frontal headaches and diffuse neck pain of 2 weeks’ duration. His mother reports that for the past week he had been dragging his right foot...
<p>Often teenagers and young adults are surprised when I tell them that their skin has signs of sun damage. They erroneously believe that the solar lentigines on their face, chest, and shoulders have...
<p><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="color: #000000;">In a child who appears well but has vomiting without diarrhea, I often order a urinalysis to document...
Andrew S. Wong, BSc; Alexander K.C. Leung, MD, MBBS, FRCPC, FRCP
<p>A 15-year-old girl presented with yellowish papules on the cheeks&nbsp;and nose. The papules, which first appeared at age 5 years, had become more prominent and profuse in the past 4 years. The...
<p>This 17-year-old girl presents for evaluation of a hypopigmented&nbsp;<span>patch on her neck and wants to know&nbsp;</span>the current therapeutic options for vitiligo. She has...
This baby was born at 40 weeks’ gestation via spontaneous vaginal delivery. APGAR scores were 9 at both 1 and 5 minutes. Birth weight was 3260 g, appropriate for gestational age.
<P>A 3-month-old boy was brought for evaluation of a skin-colored, 1 × 3-cm, diffuse swelling in the right superior orbit area<SPAN>. The lesion had been slowly growing for the past month and...
<p>A 4-year-old boy of Nicaraguan descent was hospitalized because of worsening periumbilical abdominal pain. The pain began 6 days&nbsp;earlier and was accompanied by decreased appetite, nausea,...
<p>A baby girl, born at full term via spontaneous vaginal delivery, was noted to have swelling of the umbilical stump shortly after clamping of the cord. Over the next 3 days, the stump enlarged and...
<p><strong>A MOTHER ASKS:</strong><br>My 10-year-old son plays soccer and basketball and wants to work out with me. Is it safe for him to start a weight-lifting...
<p><em>I read with interest the What’s Your Diagnosis? feature, “Young Boy With&nbsp;</em><em>Intermittent Leg Pain” (</em><em><a...
<p>An efficient and accurate ear examination is dependent on the quality and condition of the equipment, an adequately restrained patient, and the ability to visualize the tympanic membrane (TM). The...
