TEACHING FILES
Ira Shah
This month's teaching File:This month's teaching File: A 2 year old presents with coarse features, delayed development, hepatomegaly and Spasticity with corneal clouding. What is the diagnosis and how to investigate further? Read the entire teaching clinical query in the section of "TEACHING FILES" and try the correct answer.

Last month's teaching file:
Query:A 10 month old boy presented with fever and vomiting since 1 month. He had hard stools and increased thirst. At 7 months of age, he received intramuscular vitamin D (6,00,000 units) and calcium supplements. Examination findings were normal. What is the diagnosis?
Answer: Hypercalcemia due to hypervitaminosis D. Read more...

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Bacteriology Laboratory Performance Index in Childhood Septicemia. S. Kolade Ernest*, SK Babatunde, BA Adegboro. This study assesses the blood culture growth yield for diagnosis of bacterial infections. Read more...

CASE REPORTS

Candida Meningitis Resulting from Cribriform Plate Damage Following Head Injury. Karuna Thapar, Naresh Jindal, Gaurav Dhawan, Ira Dhawan. A 16 year old presents with 10 episodes of recurrent meningitis and a present episode of candidal meningitis following a rent in the cribriform plate. Read more-

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SPOT DIAGNOSIS

Last month's answers:
Case 1: Bronchogenic Cyst
Case 2: Septo-Optic Dysplasia

Try your clinical skills in the "SPOT DIAGNOSIS" for the fortnight and the lucky winner gets a child health CD - courtesy Pediatric Oncall 

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