Early Puberty in a Two-year-old Boy

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...

Chronic Recurrent Multifocal Osteomyelitis in a 9-year-old Boy

  Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO) is a rare aseptic, auto-inflammatory bone disorder. CRMO presents with bone pain with or without fever. The diagnosis of CRMO is a diagnosis of exclusion and should be included in the differential diagnosis of chronic inflammatory bone lesions in children. Cultures of the bone are typically sterile, antibiotic therapy does not result in clinic...

CARCINOMA OF THE ESOPHAGUS IN A FOURTEEN YEAR OLD BOY

This is the first documented case of esophageal carcinoma in a 14 year old boy which has been reported to date. Carcinoma of the esophagus is rare before the third decade. The present case highlights the fact that the condition should be kept in mind in the differential diagnosis of progressive dysphagia even in children and teenagers

Multivisceral Hydatidosis in a 5-Year-Old Boy

Abdominal fetus-in-fetu in a two-year-old boy

Yi Gan1 • Jun-Hui Wu1 • Jun Zhou2 • Ping-An Hu3 • Tie-Qiang Lai4 • Yun Tian2 • Chang-Qing Gao2 Department of Surgery, 3rd Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, 410008, China Research Center for Medical Sciences, 3rd Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, 410008, China Department of Internal Medicine, 3rd Xiang-Ya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, 410...

Parotid sialolithiasis in a two-year-old boy

Sialolithiasis is caused by the obstruction of a salivary gland or its excretory duct by the formation of calcareous concretions or sialoliths; this results in salivary ectasia and provokes subsequent dilation of the salivary gland. Sialolithiasis is relatively common, accounting for 30% of salivary diseases; however, it is rarely observed in childhood. This case report describes a 2-year-old m...