Giugno 2021 - Volume XL - numero 6

Medico e Bambino


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Stipsi e zoppia… il neuroblastoma

Irene Del Rizzo, Valentina Kiren, Marco Rabusin

IRCCS Materno-Infantile “Burlo Garofolo”, Trieste

A little girl with limp and constipation

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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Un vaccino falcemico

Daniela Sambugaro

Pediatra di famiglia, Valdagno (Vicenza)

A sickle cell... vaccine

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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C’è dolore e dolore: l’osteoma osteoide

Sebastiano Rizza

Pediatra di famiglia, Oderzo (Treviso)

A boy with a severe pain in his leg

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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