Teenager With Scalp Mass

scalp block for awake craniotomy in a patient with a frontal bone mass: a case report

Teenager with Severe Bowing of Limbs

Bowing of long bones may be secondary to several aetiologies. Among the causes for bowing of long bones include congenital and acquired form of rickets, skeletal dysplasia, osteogenesis imperfecta and renal tubular acidosis (RTA).

Teenager with a Bleeding, Red Papule.

Previously published Photo Quizzes are now featured in a mobile app. Get more information at http:// www.aafp.org/afp/apps. A 14-year-old boy presented with a tender red papule on his finger. He first noticed it two months earlier. It bled several times, especially when rubbed by his baseball mitt. He had no medical problems or allergies, and he was not taking any medications. He had no other s...

Pitx2: a challenging teenager.

In this issue of Circulation Research, Tessari et al1 investigate the role of an interesting gene, Pitx2, which acts in breaking symmetry in early development and has subsequent roles in differentiation of the inflow and outflow segment of the heart. Already almost 10 years ago, the transcription factor Pitx2 was demonstrated by several groups to be expressed asymmetrical in the early embryo an...

Atretic cephalocele - an uncommon cause of cystic scalp mass.

A 6 year-old girl presented with a midline parietal scalp swelling that had been gradually enlarging since birth. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed communication of the cyst with the subarachnoid space through a calvarial defect, with concomitant findings of vertically positioned straight venous sinus and subependymal grey matter heterotopia. A diagnosis of atretic cephalocele was thus made b...