A 15-year-old girl with cramping movements

A 15-year-old girl with variable anisocoria.

On examination, her uncorrected near visual acuity was J1+ and her best-corrected visual acuity was 20/20 at distance and J1+ at near. Her glasses measured −4.50 +0.50 × 98 in the right eye and −4.75 D in the left eye. Ocular motility was full, and the pupils were equal, round, and reactive to light and accommodation. Her pupils measured 5 mm to 3 mm with direct pupillary light reflex and 5 mm ...

A 15-year-old girl with fever and abdominal pain.

We present a case of a previously healthy 15-year-old girl with fever, right lower quadrant pain, and hip pain. Her history was notable for a recent laparoscopic appendectomy that was complicated by the development of intraabdominal abscesses. She reported normal bowel movements and good appetite on a regular diet, although she did endorse a recent 5-kg weight loss. Further investigation and ex...

A 15-year-old obese girl with abdominal pain.

Immature teratoma of vulva in a 15-year-old girl

Backgrounds: Immature teratoma (IT) of vulva (V) has been reported only once. Case report: A 15-year-old girl presented a vulvar tumor, and tumorectomy was performed. The tumor measured 4 cm × 4 cm × 5 cm and multiply cystic. The cysts contained mucinous fluid. The tumor was well demarcated from surrounding tissues and tumorectomy was easy. Microscopically, the tumor was multicystic neoplasm co...

Idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES) in a 15 year-old girl

We present a 15 year-old girl who was admitted to our Department in January 2008 with a four-week history of headache, arthralgias, myalgias, sore troath and angioedema. Laboratory test revealed significant leucocytosis (76 × 10ex9/L with 88% eosinophils), thrombocytosis (758 × 10ex9/L), elevated ESR (82 mm/h) and IgE 348.3 (n.v. < 114 g/L), and hypergamaglobulinemia. Extensive allergologic, im...