Case of the Month

Enea, 8-month-old, was admitted to the emergency department in a secondary care hospital for multiple episodes of vomiting (10 in less than 24 hours, not bilious) associated with apathy in the last few [...]

After a telephone consultation on Saturday, we see a 5 month old girl 2 days later on Monday for the evaluation of failure to thrive combined with repetitive vomiting. The clinical examination shows [...]

19-month old patient presenting with unexplained, intermittent consolable crying and subfebrile temperatures (max 38.0°) since the previous day, as well as a single episode of non-bilious vomiting after breakfast. No further abnormalities in [...]

An infant of 8 months was referred by his pediatrician to our childrens emergency departement for further evaluation: He had a mass lesion on his bony palate, which had only been seen by [...]

A 15 years old healthy teenage girl with no relevant medical history, came to the emergency room (ER) with her older sister at 3 am for an acute onset of vomiting after being [...]

A 1-year-old girl is presented with progressive torticollis over the last few days. She seems in good clinical condition, afebrile, with possible difficulty to swallow (she stopped eating from the table and returned [...]

15yo female, presented in May 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The patient was referred via ambulance by her primary care doctor. She’s been having a high fever (> 40° [...]

A 3-month-old infant was brought by ambulance to our emergency department following repetitive vomiting episodes at home one hour after assumption of a cow milk based formula, accompanied by muscle hypotonia, hyporeactivity, pallor [...]