BACKGROUND Cerebral abscesses are extremely rare in neonates. Serratia marcescens is an unusual cause of sepsis and neurological spread is especially ominous. PURPOSE To report the case of a 34-week neonate who developed this rare condition and to discuss diagnostic and therapeutic measures. CASE REPORT A 34-week male neonate sequentially developed respiratory distress syndrome, early sepsi...

Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation is a rare, but well-known disease. It can be managed conservatively in patients without symptoms or require surgical removal when symptomatic. The surgical option of choice is en bloc resection of the affected lesion. We report an experience of life-threatening congenital cystic adenoid malformation in a low-birth-weight (1,590 g) premature neonate who...

Intussusception is a rare entity in neonates. It may present with non-specific signs including abdominal distension, feeding intolerance, vomiting and bloody stools. Symptomatology is similar to Necrotizing Entero-Colitis (NEC). Ultrasound can help to establish early diagnosis in neonate. A 27-week preterm newborn was initially suspected as NEC based on abdominal distention, bilious vomiting, w...

Despite substantial progress in neonatal care over the past two decades leading to improved survival of extremely premature infants, extreme prematurity continues to be associated with long term neurodevelopmental impairments. Cerebral white matter injury is the predominant form of insult in preterm brain leading to adverse neurological consequences. Such brain injury pattern and unfavorable ne...

Background: Harlequin ichthyosis (HI) is a severe and rare autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis, characterized by hyperkeratosis, extensive fissuring massive, diamond-shaped scales which limit the child’s movements. The term harlequin comes from baby’s facial expression pattern of like 17th century entertainers, harlequins. underlying genetic abnormality has been identified as mutation in ...

Adaptation to extrauterine life involves the newborn infant in a series of biological adjustments to a totally new set of environmental conditions. Prime among these is the accommodation to a thermal environment that, in all but the most tropical countries, represents a distinctly "cold" challenge. The failure to accommodate to this cold stress has historically been recognized as perhaps the ea...