Scabies in a 2-month-old Infant Successfully Treated with Lindane

Scabies in a 2-month-old Infant Successfully Treated with Lindane.

Diagnosis of scabies in young children can be challenging since the morphology and distribution of skin lesions may differ from adults. Therefore, clinicians should keep scabies in mind in their differential diagnosis in a child who presents with severe pruritic, polymorphic skin lesions. Regarding the treatment of scabies, the reported clinical experience with gamma benzene hexachloride (linda...

Infantile hepatic hemangioendothelioma: an 8-month old infant successfully treated with a corticosteroid.

Infantile hemangioendothelioma is a rare benign vascular tumor of the liver. We report a case of hepatic hemangioendothelioma in an 8- month-old female infant who presented with hepatomegaly and respiratory distress, which was successfully treated with oral prednisolone for six months.

Intussusceptions due to trauma in a 17-month-old infant

Invagination is a kind of intestine disease in children and it is occurred between 2 upto 14 years old. This is a report of 17 months infant with intussusception due to trauma. The patient had admitted to emergency department because of motor vehicle accident and because of abdominal pain, abdominal computed tomography (CT) scan was done.

Xanthogranulomatous cholecystits in 2-month-old infant

Xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis (XGC) is a rare form of chronic cholecystitis that is accompanied by xanthomatous histiocytes and chronic inflammation. A 2-month-old boy presented with a right upper abdominal palpable mass. Cholecystectomy with liver wedge resection was done, under the impression that the mass might be a hepatic tumor or liver abscess. Pathologic examination showed XGC with a...

Non-classical Kawasaki disease in a 2 month old infant.