Pigmentation around the Mouth in a Boy, Aged 14

A 14-year-old boy with vomiting.

A 14-year-old boy was transferred from an outside hospital for evaluation of vomiting. He had been well until he traveled to India 3 weeks earlier. Upon return, he developed abdominal pain and recurrent episodes of nonbilious, nonbloody emesis. The day of admission, he ate a slice of pizza and then experienced numerous episodes of vomiting every 15 to 30 minutes. There had been minimal diarrhea...

Case Report Complete Diphallus in a 14-year-old Boy

We herein present an unusual case of 14-year-old boy with complete diphallus and bifid scrotum. He was not aware of his extragenital abnormality until he was examined by a surgeon before circumsion. During surgery, the hypoplastic penis was resected and a single scrotum was constructed by removing the band of skin separating the compartments. The rugose skin was then joined, giving scrotal cont...

Isolated Spontaneous Midbrain Hemorrhage in a 14-Year-Old Boy

Isolated spontaneous midbrain hemorrhages are rare because they are usually secondary to hemorrhages from inferior structures such as the pons and cerebellum, or superior structures such as the thalamus and putamen. While the etiologies are largely unidentified, the most common ones are vascular malformations and bleeding diathesis with hypertension being relatively uncommon. We report midbrain...

Wade's histoid leprosy in a 14-year-old teenage boy.

Wade's histoid leprosy (HL) is a rare variant of multibacillary leprosy, with characteristic clinical, immunologic, histopathologic, and bacteriologic features. It is associated with resistance to sulfa drugs or polychemotherapy and is rarely observed in patients who have not undergone prior treatment. Clinically, HL resembles keloid or dermatofibroma. Furthermore, HL is rare in children and is...

Pleural aspergillosis in a 14 year old boy.