DIAGNOSTIC DILEMMA

This month's Diagnostic Dilemma:
Prashant
A 24 days old female child presented with cough and poor feeding with respiratory distress and massive hepatomegaly with persistent apnea. What is the diagnosis?...

TEACHING FILES

Ira Shah
This month's teaching File:: A 5 years old girl presented with bilateral cervical adenopathy, hepatomegaly. FNAC was reactive lymphadenitis. Subsequently she developed pancytopenia. What is the cause of the cervical lymphadenopathy ?... Read the entire teaching clinical query in the section of "TEACHING FILES" and try the correct answer.

Last month's teaching file:
Query:: A 14 month old boy presented with cough and difficulty in breathing, seborrheic dermatitis, hepatomegaly and multiple hospitalizations in past for recurrent respiratory tract infections Chest X-Ray shows bilateral interstitial pneumonitis.... What is the diagnosis ? How to investigate further?
Answer: Langerhans cell Histiocytosis. A skin biopsy is required. Read and discuss this case in full details further in the section of "DISCUSSION GROUPS".

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Typhoid Carriers among Children in Sohag. Najah M. AbdelRaheem, Gihan Y.Yousef, Hatem M.Shalaby, Mohammed Eltorky, Ahmed AbdelAzziz . Read about the study to determine the prevalence of chronic typhoid carriers among children in Sohag. Typhoid bacilli were found in 18.7% as stool carriers and 3.1% as urinary carriers-..

CASE REPORTS

Biliary Ascariasis in a Non-Endemic Area- Case Reports. Karuna Thapar, Gaurav Dhawan, Naresh Jindal. Biliary ascariasis is common in the Kashmir valley and only few cases have been reported from other parts of India. We here report two cases of biliary ascariasis seen at our centre from non-endemic regions...

VIEWERS CHOICE

Hair Dye (Paraphenylenediamine) Poisoning. Prakash C. Vaghela, Naresh B. Gohel. . Read about a case of accidental ingestion of PPD who presented with angioneurotic edema requiring tracheostomy...

IMAGE GALLERY

ECG QUIZ OF THE MONTH S.S.Prabhu, Sumitra Venkatesh, Div. Of Pediatric Cardiology, B.J.Wadia Hospital for Children, Mumbai

SPOT DIAGNOSIS

Last month's answers:
Case 1: TOF physiology
Case 2: Cystic hygroma

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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Pediatric Oncall

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