Giugno 2021 - Volume XL - numero 6
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IRCCS Materno-Infantile “Burlo Garofolo”, Trieste
A case of a sixteen-month-old girl with limp and constipation do to abdominal neuroblastoma is presented. The clinical presentation of neuroblastoma is highly variable, ranging from a mass that causes no symptoms to a primary tumour that causes critical illness as a result of local invasion, widely disseminated disease, or both.
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Pediatra di famiglia, Valdagno (Vicenza)
Key words: Vaccination, Sickle cell, Acute dactilitis, Anaemia
A case of a sickle cell crisis initially diagnosed as post vaccination arthritis is described. The author stresses the high specificity of acute dactylitis with respect to the diagnosis of sickle cell anaemia.
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Pediatra di famiglia, Oderzo (Treviso)
Key words: Osteoid osteoma, Severe pain attack
A 5-year-old boy with one-month history of atraumatic pain in his left leg was taken to the ED for a severe pain attack. A femoral osteoid osteoma was eventually diagnosed after the performance of a CT scan
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