Case of the Month
Tachycardic ECG
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 [...]
What’s wrong with this toe?
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 [...]
Gait Abnormality
The mother reports a significant malposition of the right leg (Genu varus), which occurred spontaneously. She realised this for the first time after a soccer game when her son wasn’t able to kick the [...]
Does yoghurt help your digestion?
A 6 year old boy presents to emergency department with drooling and odynophagia for 4 hours. The patient reports that he swallowed a miniaturized yoghurt cup from a local supermarket chain (distributed as a [...]
Gowers’ sign in a two year old boy
A two year old boy came with his parents to our ED. Almost three months prior the boy had a coxitis fugax (clinicial diagnosis, no ultrasound performed) and since then his gait pattern has [...]
A Painful Awakening
A three year old girl was brought to our ED because she fell out of bed while sleeping. She fell approximately 50cm and landed on her right side. Since that accident she has been [...]
Magnet Ingestion
A four year old boy was playing in his room, suddenly he went to his father and complaint of adominal pain. He told his father that he had swallowed one magnet. At the time [...]