Boy with Machine

Two year-old boy with ischemic stroke

Arterial ischemic stroke (AIS) in adults is considered a serious health threat and requires urgent medical treatment. Prompt diagnosis allows the therapeutic option of thrombolysis within the time window of 3 to 6 hours after first symptoms. Alternatively, early anti-platelet therapy is effective in improving the outcome after stroke. The incidence of pediatric AIS range from 2 to 5 per 100 000...

A boy with chest deformity.

An 11 year old boy with a right hemithorax deformity and diminished breathing sounds in the right lung was referred to our department, following examination by a physician due to knee pain caused by flat-footedness. He had a history of recurrent viral infections of the upper airways in early childhood since the age of 3 yrs. He has been free of pulmonary complaints. Bronchitis was diagnosed onl...

The boy with massive glucosuria.

A 3.5-year-old boy living in a remote Armenian village was admitted to the hospital in Yerevan in March 2002 with a history of polydipsia since the age of 6 months, bowed legs since he started to walk at the age of 1 year and an increasingly large abdomen. The child was very small [height: 74 cm ( 5.9 SDS)] but alert, had a moonlike face, a grossly enlarged liver (10 cm below the costal margin)...

XANTHOMA WITH OCULAR AND CARDIOVASCULAR INVOLVEMENT IN A BOY

In this report, a 10 year old boy with both tendinous and tuberous xanthoma is presented. Premature corneal arcus and aortic stensosis were associated findings in this case. Tuberous and tendinous xanthomas are two clinical varieties of one disease, both of which are seen in type II hyperlipoproteinemia. Increased serum cholesterol with pathological findings of skin lesions with oculocardia...

A Boy With Fever And Sore Throat