Can you solve these 6 puzzling cases?
We know you love a diagnostic challenge. Can you crack these 6 puzzling cases?
We know you love a diagnostic challenge so we've picked some of our favorite cases to test your skills. See how you fare with these 6 cases.
A healthy 9-year-old female presents with a 1-day history of fever, progressive rash, conjunctivitis, and superficial oral ulcers.
After a cesarean delivery at 30 weeks, a 1430-gram premature female neonate was noted to have generalized thick, dark brown scale forming a tight membrane over her entire skin surface. Her mother was a healthy 19-year-old gravida 1 with normal prenatal screening ultrasound and laboratory studies. Family history did not reveal any congenital malformations or genetic disorders.
The father of a healthy 15-year-old girl brings her to the emergency department for evaluation of blue hands.
A healthy 12-year-old boy with eczema shows up at the office with an incredibly itchy rash on his legs that has exploded over the last 48 hours. He has a history of dry skin to which his mother regularly applies various moisturizers.
A 3-week-old female presented to the emergency department with a 3-day history of a progressively enlarging, erythematous, seemingly painful lump on her back.
A male infant is born and delivery is remarkable for yellow amniotic fluid and a jaundiced infant. Following delivery he is given intensive phototherapy and then develops erythema, which later becomes ecchymosis.
Itchy skin associated with sleep problems in infants
September 27th 2024A recent study presented at the American Academy of Pediatrics 2024 National Conference & Exhibition, sheds light on the connection between skin conditions and sleep disturbances in infants and toddlers, highlighting itchy skin as a significant factor, even in the absence of atopic
Recognize & Refer: Hemangiomas in pediatrics
July 17th 2019Contemporary Pediatrics sits down exclusively with Sheila Fallon Friedlander, MD, a professor dermatology and pediatrics, to discuss the one key condition for which she believes community pediatricians should be especially aware-hemangiomas.
