Liver abscess due toKlebsiella pneumoniaein a healthy 12-year-old boy

Liver abscess due to Klebsiella pneumoniae in a healthy 12-year-old boy

Pyogenic liver abscess (PLA) is rare in healthy children. We report a case of PLA in an immunocompetent 12-year-old boy. Percutaneous catheter drainage was performed for the abscess. In addition, parenteral antibiotics were administered for 3 weeks. Klebsiella pneumoniae was detected in the culture of blood and drained fluid. Here, we present this case and a brief review of the literature on th...

A 6-year-old boy with shoulder pain. Splenic abscess.

A 6-year-old male presented to his primary care physician complaining of fever and left shoulder pain. Six weeks before presentation, he had fallen off the monkey bars and was treated for a right distal radius and ulna fracture. His cast was removed and he was otherwise doing well until 2 days before presentation when he developed a high-grade fever with no initial focus. Over the 2 days follow...

Cerebral Abscess in a 16 year old boy

lung disease will have met patients who fail to improve until the purulence of the sputum improves, either with time or with a change in antibiotic. In order to quantify changes in sputum purulence, this writer has for many years used an arbitrary grading system, historically called the TG system. It has a range from TG0 (white sputum) to TG4 (dark green sputum). With practice it is fairly easy...

Macrophage activation syndrome due to methotrexate in a 12-year-old boy with dermatomyositis.

Macrophage activation syndrome due to methotrexate in a 12-year-old boy with