Case of the Month

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 [...]

A 12-year old athletic girl fell on the floor after a collision with a teammate during a basketball game. She bruised her right shoulder as well as her right hemithorax. She stated painful [...]

A 1 year and 4 months old girl was referred by a peripheral hospital due to impaired consciousness of unknown cause. The mother reported, that the child could not be properly roused after [...]

A female patient with a neurodegenerative disorder and severe dystonia is brought in by ambulance from a nursing home to your emergency department. She is neurologically severely impaired; she is non-ambulatory, non-verbal with preserved [...]

A three year old girl was referred to our emergency department for a second opinion. Four days prior, a heavy object fell on her big toe. An xray was performed, a fracture diagnosed and [...]