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Q. A 3-year-old boy has had a cough for 20 days, fever (100-101) once a day for 20 days, and his weight is 10 kg. Residing near a TB clinic. Montoux neg, Hb-9.5, ESR-17, TLC-5000, lypmpho 74 percent.USG abdomen normal, MP neg, widal neg, urine-NAD cxr mild rt hilar prominence, no lymphadenopathy. What ...

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Teaching Files/ Grand Rounds

An 8-year-old boy presented in November 2024 with abdominal distention, intermittent vomiting and an inability to spontaneously pass stools requiring multiple enemas for 1 month. He had progressive inability to get up from a squatting position starti ...

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Diagnostic Dilemma

A 4-year-old boy 2nd born of third-degree consanguineous marriage presented with cough and breathlessness for 10 days. He was operated on for an inguinal hernia at 4 months of age and was treated for rickets in view of skeletal deformities. Milestones are normal. On examination, he had bronchospasm, ...

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