Christiaan R. de Vries, PhD; Srividya Naganathan, MD
A 5-year-old boy with no significant past medical history presented to the emergency department (ED) with a chief concern for bilateral lower extremity swelling and erythema of 2 days’ duration.
A 32-year-old gravida 1 mother delivered a girl at 40 weeks’ gestation via normal spontaneous vaginal delivery after an uncomplicated pregnancy. At birth, the neonate was noted to have micrognathia, cleft...
Richard Hal Flowers, MD, BA; Barbara B. Wilson, MD; Jennifer Kaley, MD
A 20-day-old girl presented with a rash that had been noted within 24 hours of her birth. The rash had started as “red bumps” on her arms and legs and had spread centripetally.
A Parent Asks: When I had my first baby, I received a care package with infant formula samples in it, but I didn’t receive one after this birth. Why are hospitals no longer giving the free formula to new...
Alexander K. C. Leung, MD—Series Editor, and Benjamin Barankin, MD
Alexander K. C. Leung, MD—Series Edit...
A 17-year-old patient presented with a pigmented lesion on his left arm. He reported that the lesion had been first noted approximately 5 years ago and had slowly increased in size with time.
A previously healthy 8-year-old girl presented to the emergency department with a 3-day history of worsening swelling, pain, and discoloration of the right thumb.
The oral presentation has been long understood to the be one of the most effective means by which physicians communicate important patient-related information and care planning among one another.
Marc Tompkins, MD; Benjamin G. Bruce, MD; Craig P. Eberson, MD
To evaluate the use of ketorolac to help distinguish between septic arthritis of the hip and transient synovitis of the hip in pediatric patients, a retrospective review was performed of the charts of 211...
