A 12-year-old girl with right-sided hip pain

A 29-year-old male with right-sided chest pain.

A 12-year-old girl with pneumonia.

This 12-year-old girl was transferred from an outside hospital for treatment of pneumonia. She had been well until 7 days before admission, when she developed what was felt to be cellulitis of her left lower extremity. She was given intravenous clindamycin, and the swelling and erythema improved. However, the following day, she started having respiratory distress, and she was found to have an i...

Knee pain in a 12-year-old girl.

A 12-year-old Caucasian girl was brought by her parents to an orthopaedist with a chief complaint of left knee pain of 2 weeks' duration. Her primary care physician had obtained plain radiographs of her knees, which revealed no evidence of fracture, physeal injury, or abnormal bone quality. Because her symptoms continued to worsen, she was sent in referral to an ortho-paedic surgeon for further...

simultaneous shoulder and hip dislocation in a 12-year-old girl with hutchinson-gilford progeria syndrome

hutchinson-gilford progeria syndrome (hgps) is a rare premature ageing disorder that is characterized by accelerated degenerative changes of the cutaneous, musculoskeletal and cardiovascular systems. mean age at diagnosis is 2.9 years and generally leading to death at approximately 13 years of age due to myocardial infarction or stroke. orthopedic manifestations of hgps are multiple and shoulde...

Simultaneous shoulder and hip dislocation in a 12-year-old girl with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome.

Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) is a rare premature ageing disorder that is characterized by accelerated degenerative changes of the cutaneous, musculoskeletal and cardiovascular systems. Mean age at diagnosis is 2.9 years and generally leading to death at approximately 13 years of age due to myocardial infarction or stroke. Orthopedic manifestations of HGPS are multiple and shoulde...