Case of the Month

An 11-month-old female presented with swelling of the right side of her face, both hands and feet, and a skin eruption since two hours. No history of trauma, insect bites, fever, drug administration [...]

PED visit 1: 9-year-old girl, refugee living in an orphanage, presented to the paediatric ED (PED) one day after eating rapeseed pods. She complained of gastrointestinal symptoms (6x non-bilious vomiting, one greenish diarrhoea) [...]

13 year old athletic and previously healthy male brought to the ED by his father for tactile fever, headache, and malaise. The day before the patient had cut his lower leg on a [...]

A 1 10/12-year-old girl was brought to our ER with a bellyache and one-time vomiting at home. The mother also mentioned a swollen mass in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen. Fever [...]

A 5-year-old fully orientated girl was brought to our ER with immobilizing neck and shoulder pain developing over the same day, weakness of the upper right extremity starting the day before and oliguria. [...]

A 14 year old patient was brought to the emergency room by his parents after 6 days of fever with severe headache and photophobia. He was otherwise in good health, fully vaccinated including [...]

An 11 8/12 year-old girl presents to a paediatric emergency room reporting acute pain (vulvodynia) and ulcerations to the genitalia since 4 days. It was preceded by a Covid-19 infection with symptoms lasting [...]

A 5 1/2-month-old girl presented to the emergency department for the second time. She cried and screamed a lot during the day. She has merely been drinking anymore, last wet nappy was in [...]