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Hemic and Lymphatic Diseases

972 articoli — 1997-2026 Include sottocategorie MeSH

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Immunodeficienza combinata grave

Valencic I, Moratti M, Bettelli S, Ancora G

2026/3 — pag. 58-66 — DOI

Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) is characterised by profound quantitative and/or functional T-cell defects and predisposes infants to life-threatening infections, including sepsis that may progress to organ dysfunction and disseminated intrav...

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Una linfangite rapidamente "strisciante"

Paiano R, Aimone Prina V, Nicolì S, Campisi Frascà G, Brandolisio LR, Feresin MG, Lorenzoni G, Bondone C, Manzoni P

2026/3 — pag. 67-69 — DOI

This report presents the case of a seven-year-old child with a suspected viper bite on the right hand, initially presenting with local oedema and a puncture lesion. The subsequent onset of vomiting, altered consciousness and lymphangitic streaks exte...

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Due casi di malformazioni cavernose cerebrali

Mannarà UM, Migliore A, Marino S, Tardino L, Marino S, La Spina M

2026/3 — pag. 77-78 — DOI

Cerebral cavernous malformations (CCM) are vascular lesions that in children often present with diverse and misleading symptoms. This report examines two clinical scenarios: the case of a 12-year-old boy with progressive headache and that of an 11-ye...

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Ci fai o ci SEU?

Benigni G, Verticelli T, Pugliese F

2026/3 — pag. 72-73 — DOI

Haemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) is a thrombotic microangiopathy frequently triggered by Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC). This report compares two paediatric cases caused by the same pathogen (E. coli O157:H7) with divergent clinical outcomes. I...

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Artrite e osteomielite in età pediatrica: un esordio insidioso di drepanocitosi?

Di Marcoberardino F, Camelli V, Filice E, Stera G, De Agostini M, Mengozzi E, Guerra L, Ghizzi C

2026/2 — pag. 43-44 — DOI

This report describes the case of a 13-month-old boy presenting with fever, pain and functional limitation of the right elbow. Initial findings suggested septic arthritis and led to empirical antibiotic treatment. Subsequent diagnostic evaluation, wh...

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Sapere riconoscere la discheratosi congenita

Ballaben A.

2026/1 — pag. 54-56 — DOI

Ginevra was examined at age 14 for neurological and inflammatory symptoms (paresthesia, muscle weakness and xerostomia). The clinical picture remained unclear until the discovery of severe onychodystrophy, which had been hidden for years by nail p...

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Diagnosi e gestione precoce del neonato con familiarità per disordine congenito dell'immunità

Laudante U, Falco G, Ferrandino C, Romano AC, Turchetti F, Romano R, Giardino G

2026/1 — pag. 23-23 — DOI

This study examines the role of early diagnosis in managing inborn errors of immunity, which are often characterised by early onset and high mortality. By analysing data from 15 patients with a positive family history, the research evaluated the util...

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Due fratellini inseparabili con la sindrome emolitica uremica (SEU)

Delcaro G, Dall'Amico R, Tubaro M

2026/1 — pag. 16-16 — DOI

This report describes a familial cluster of typical Haemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) caused by Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (EHEC). An 18-month-old girl initially presented with haemorrhagic diarrhoea, which rapidly progressed to acute renal failure...

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"Un cuore in fiamme". Un caso di sindrome di Kawasaki complicata da dilatazioni coronariche severe e necessitante di terapia con anakinra

Gerosa GM, Fantasia M, Ramponi G, Balduzzi AC

2026/1 — pag. 5-9 — DOI

A 4-month-old infant residing in a foreign country, presented with high fever associated with poor general condition, bilateral conjunctivitis and livedo reticularis. Tests showed elevated inflammation markers with negative blood cultures, chest X-ra...

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Porpora di Schönlein-Henoch bollosa Mononucleosi

2025/10 — pag. 668 — DOI

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La sindrome di Barth

Dobbiani G, Crapanzano C, Tovaglieri N.

2025/10 — pag. 654-657 — DOI

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Piastrinopenia nel contesto di una intercorrenza infettiva

Zago A

2025/10 — pag. 275-276 — DOI

The paper reports the case of a 10-year-old girl with acute post-infectious thrombocytopenia, presenting with widespread petechiae, ecchymoses and epistaxis, with otherwise normal blood counts. Initial platelet count was 0/mm³. Intravenous immunoglob...

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Una diagnosi di malattia di Hirschprung a 14 anni

Trombetta A

2025/10 — pag. 269-270 — DOI

The paper presents the case of a 14-year-old boy with severe microcytic anaemia and lifelong constipation, with imaging showing massive faecal impaction and rectosigmoid dilatation. Poor response to transfusion and iron therapy, together with marked ...

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Un bambino che zoppica: quando meno te lo aspetti

Cunsolo M, Gazzitano L, Alizzi C, Panzuto F, Corsello G.

2025/9 — pag. 598-600 — DOI

A 19-month-old boy arrived at the emergency room with inconsolable crying and refusal to walk. MRI revealed bone changes consistent with vitamin C deficiency (scurvy). His history showed a diet almost exclusively based on milk and gingival bleeding. ...

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Quando le anemie sono una questione di VITA... MINE

Passarella T, Alboreto E, Costagliola C, Serafino F, Di Jorgi M, Arcuri L, Calvillo M

2025/9 — pag. 249-250 — DOI

The paper reports two paediatric cases of severe macrocytic anaemia due to vitamin B12 deficiency. Both patients presented with cytopenia and neurological involvement, which improved with hydroxocobalamin supplementation. These cases highlight the im...

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Emoglobinuria parossistica a frigore: è davvero così rara?

Esposto MP, Genesini S, Chinello M, Pezzella V, Bonetti E, Zaccaron A, Caddeo G, Vitale V, Guardo C, Cesaro S

2025/9 — pag. 231-235 — DOI

Paroxysmal Cold Haemoglobinuria (PCH) is considered the rarest form of autoimmune haemolytic anaemia (AIHA), although it is likely underdiagnosed. It is caused by biphasic haemolysins, known as Donath-Landsteiner antibodies, which bind to erythrocyte...

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Quando l’anamnesi non aiuta... occhio alla clinica (e alla milza)

Sardella L, Abbagnato L, Agosti M, Salvatore S, Selicorni A.

2025/8 — pag. 530 — DOI

The case of a 15-year-old girl with Epstein-Barr virus infectious mononucleosis complicated by splenomegaly and traumatic splenic rupture with haemoperitoneum is described. She was treated with splenic embolization, blood transfusion, antibiotic ther...

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Diarrea emorragica acuta, infezione da Escherichia coli produttori di Shiga tossine e sindrome emolitica uremica

Documento d’indirizzo inter-societario

2025/8 — pag. 510-518 — DOI

Haemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) associated with Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) infection is a major individual and public health challenge and is the leading cause of acute kidney injury in children. In Western countries, HUS complica...

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È viola ma non fa paura: l'orticaria multiforme post-infettiva

Casali S, Bellini E, Rocca A, Andreozzi L, Lanari M

2025/8 — pag. 222-223 — DOI

The paper describes an 18-month-old girl who developed purpuric urticarial lesions during amoxicillin therapy for pulmonary consolidation. Differential diagnosis included vasculitis, systemic drug reactions and incomplete Kawasaki disease. The transi...

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Una Kawasaki che mima una Guillain-Barré

Miotto D

2025/8 — pag. 220-221 — DOI

A 19-month-old boy presented with gait instability and lower limb weakness, initially suggestive of Guillain-Barré syndrome or transverse myelitis. Clinical features including fever, rash, conjunctivitis, sterile pyuria and elevated inflammation mark...

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Quanti danni questi eosinofili!

Cannas M, Malaventura C

2025/8 — pag. 218-219 — DOI

A 15-year-old boy presented with abdominal pain, weight loss, ascites and marked eosinophilia. Work-up excluded infectious, autoimmune and neoplastic causes, leading to the diagnosis of hypereosinophilic syndrome with transmural panenteric involvemen...

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Galeotto fu il parvovirus

Vecchi M, Cavalleri L

2025/8 — pag. 215-216 — DOI

A previously healthy 2.5-year-old child presented in critical condition with hypoglycemic coma, severe metabolic acidosis and profound anaemia. Diagnostic work-up revealed previously undiagnosed sickle cell disease (SCD) complicated by aplastic crisi...

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Febbre persistente, malessere, congiuntive e lieve cheilite: quando c’entra l’Adenovirus

Lorefice A, Troisi A, Fontijn S, Marchetti F.

2025/7 — pag. 465-466 — DOI

A 5-and-a-half-year-old child presents with a 10-day history of fever, upper respiratory tract inflammation, conjunctivitis and diarrhoea. Clinical examination reveals inflammatory signs in the pharyngeal, ocular and tympanic areas, but no rash or pe...

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Polmoni di ferro

Pascolo P, Cotić I, Krivec U

2025/7 — pag. 188-189 — DOI

An extremely premature infant (24 weeks’ gestation, birth weight 380 g) with congenital heart disease and severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia is hospitalized for worsening respiratory function, hypoxia and rising eosinophilia in the absence of infectio...

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Evoluzione singolare di un rash cutaneo

Stagi C

2025/7 — pag. 192-193 — DOI

A 3-month-old infant, born small for gestational age (SGA), presented with fever, irritability and a progressively spreading rash initially on palms and soles. Despite antibiotics and IV immunoglobulin therapy, the clinical condition worsened, with c...

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Occhio all'emocromo... prima che sia tardi

Di Noto F, Lo Meo F, Marra G, Dimartino G, Gilotta C, Genduso M, Ferraro T, Allegra M, Guarina A, Cardella F, Corsello G

2025/7 — pag. 190-191 — DOI

A 5-year-old boy, presented with hematemesis, diffuse petechiae, epistaxis, respiratory distress and severe pancytopenia. After poor response to immunoglobulin and steroid therapy, bone marrow evaluation revealed trilineage cytopenia. The combination...

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Un neonato con piastrinopenia

Starita A

2025/7 — pag. 179-181 — DOI

The paper describes the case of newborn with thrombocytopenia. The final diagnosis is a rare, potentially severe disease that, therefore, should be promptly recognised....

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2025/6

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Anemia e desaturazione… uno strano caso di favismo

Sarno E, Fabbri E, Saia RE, Pericoli R.

2025/6 — pag. 397-398 — DOI

Methaemoglobinaemia is a rare but significant complication in patients with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency. In these individuals, oxidative stress - triggered by infections, drugs, or foods like fava beans - may convert haemoglob...

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Una micobatteriosi non così tanto “atipica”

Sfeir R.

2025/6 — pag. 393-394 — DOI

In the presence of unilateral lymph node swelling that has persisted for more than 3 weeks, in the absence of suspicious signs of malignancy, unresponsive to first-line antibiotic therapy, it is appropriate to consider a non-tuberculous mycobacterial...

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Trombocitopenia immune: quando le immunoglobuline non funzionano

Iannicelli A, Vorini MV, Beneduce G, Giagnuolo G, Parasole R, Menna G

2025/6 — pag. 162-163 — DOI

A 9-year-old boy was initially evaluated for macrocytic anaemia, neutrophilic leukocytosis and thrombocytopenia, with spontaneous ecchymoses but with no significant medical history. After ten months of follow-up, hematologic worsening occurred alongs...

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Un'invaginazione intestinale insidiosa

Di Noto F, La Russa R, Genduso M, Trizzino A, D'Angelo P

2025/6 — pag. 158-159 — DOI

The paper presents the case of a 2-year-old boy who arrived at the Emergency Room with acute abdominal pain; ultrasound revealed an intestinal intussusception. After recurrence and bowel resection, histology confirmed Burkitt lymphoma. Further invest...

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La macroematuria che non ti aspetti

Bossalini G, Gaudenzi F, Sodero R, Grosso SN, Coppola C, Valentino MS, Caiazzo R, Giacomet V

2025/6 — pag. 148-151 — DOI

Macrohaematuria and microhematuria may be signs of various diseases. Infectious haematuria often presents with fever and/or dysuria. The paper describes the case of a 14-year-old boy from Mali who was in Italy for five months and presented with gross...

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2025/5

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Linfadenite batterica acuta localizzata

2025/5 — pag. 315-316

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Un caso non casuale… di morbillo

Roncareggi S, Cereda C, Paredi M.

2025/5 — pag. 327-328 — DOI

A 9-month-old infant, the second child in the family, presented to the emergency room with a persistent fever lasting six days, accompanied by cough, runny nose and stomatitis. Initial examination revealed generalised malaise, irritability, bilateral...

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Un mal di schiena ostinato

Marra G, Lo Meo F, Dimartino G, Di Noto F, Gilotta C, Napoli L, La Torre ML, Allegra A, Ruffo GB, Cardella F, Corsello G.

2025/5 — pag. 323-326 — DOI

Emanuel is an 11-year-old boy of Ivorian descent, born and raised in Italy, who presented with recurrent migratory musculoskeletal pain. After excluding neurological and oncological conditions, his ethnic background and clinical course raised the sus...

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Facciamo il punto sull’anemia falciforme

Tessitore A, Cuzzubbo D, Russo G.

2025/5 — pag. 296-298 — DOI

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an increasingly relevant condition in Italy due to rising immigration from high-prevalence regions. Early diagnosis through newborn screening and comprehensive management - including hydroxyurea, antibiotic prophylaxis, t...

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Dolore e colore: tre neretti addolorati

2025/5 — pag. 292-295 — DOI

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Drepanocitosi e osteonecrosi avascolare della testa del femore

Perfetto F, Pasquali E, Biserna L, Iacono A, Farneti C, Radice C, Marchetti F

2025/5 — pag. 123-124 — DOI

A 10.5-year-old girl with homozygous sickle cell disease on chronic treatment with hydroxyurea, blood transfusions and erythroexchange presented with sudden right thigh pain and limping, without trauma or fever. Imaging and lab results indicated avas...

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Wilson Wilson Wilson

Carciofi A, Pugliese F, D'alba I, Coccia P, Lionetti ME, Gatti S

2025/5 — pag. 120-121 — DOI

A 13-year-old boy was admitted with abdominal pain, vomiting and unexplained cytopoenia. Initial investigations showed splenomegaly, ileal wall thickening, hepatic structural alterations and persistent pancytopenia. Extensive infectious, haematologic...

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"Che cosa può celarsi dietro un'anemia...": un caso di atresia duodenale a esordio tardivo

Allegra M, Dolce R, Bignone L, Raso E, Caruso A, Giglione E, Putignano L, Alizzi C, Cardella F, Corsello G

2025/5 — pag. 103-106 — DOI

Duodenal atresia (AD) is a congenital malformation characterised by complete or incomplete intrinsic obstruction of the duodenum. Prenatal diagnosis is often possible. Type 1 AD, according to the Gray-Skandalakis classification, consists of transvers...

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Infezione da parvovirus B19: non solo “faccia schiaffeggiata”

Riccio S, D’Urzo G, Amendolara M, Aurino A, Avallone G, Prete A, Villano P, Masini L.

2025/4 — pag. 259-260 — DOI

Parvovirus B19 infection occurs in children with the typical “slapped cheek” rash, associated or not with fever and general malaise. The most affected age group is school-age children (4-11 years), with outbreaks in winter and summer seasons. Alongsi...

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Mal di schiena (e... null'altro) Dolore e "rumore"

2025/4 — pag. 225-228 — DOI

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Parvovirus: un solo virus per tante malattie

Burlo F, Colussi L, Zanchi C, Bloise S, Marchetti F, Cozzi G.

2025/4 — pag. 229-234 — DOI

Parvovirus B19 causes a wide range of clinical manifestations, with a peak incidence between 5 and 15 years of age. The spectrum of clinical manifestations associated with Parvovirus infection varies depending on the host's age, haematological status...

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"Amici per la pelle": un caso di leishmaniosi

Fantasia M, Vecchi M, Cavalleri L, Bruni F, Provenzi M

2025/4 — pag. 81-85 — DOI

Leishmaniasis is an infectious disease caused by protozoa of the Leishmania genus, parasites of humans and several domestic and wild animals, and transmitted via vectors. The authors describe the case of an 18-month-old girl, presenting to the Emerge...

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La rava e la fava

Fiorenza G

2025/4 — pag. 95-95 — DOI

This paper describes the clinical case of a 2-year-and-11-month-old child presenting with vomiting, fever, abdominal pain and macrohematuria, alongside clinical signs of jaundice and acute haemolytic anaemia. Initial blood tests and thorough history ...

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2025/3

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La linfoadenopatia laterocervicale che non ti aspetti... Un caso di malattia di Rosai-Dorfman

Gibellato E, Melzi ML, Buonsante A, Dell'Acqua F, Lazzerotti A.

2025/3 — pag. 186-190 — DOI

A healthy four-year-old Italian boy was hospitalized due to a skin superinfection of an isolated right laterocervical lymphadenopathy (7x4cm), which had appeared four months earlier. In the previous months, he had normal haematochemical examinations ...

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Sindrome ATR-X

Scupilliti S, Selicorni A.

2025/3 — pag. 177-179 — DOI

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La linfoadenopatia laterocervicale che non ti aspetti... Un caso di malattia di Rosai-Dorfman

Gibellato E, Melzi ML, Buonsante A, Dell'Acqua F, Lazzerotti A

2025/3 — pag. 59-63 — DOI

A healthy four-year-old Italian boy was hospitalized due to a skin superinfection of an isolated right laterocervical lymphadenopathy (7x4cm), which had appeared four months earlier. In the previous months, he had normal haematochemical examinations ...

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Una carenza di vitamina B12... contagiosa

Acone F, Gustuti V

2025/3 — pag. 73-74 — DOI

The paper reports the case of a seven-month-old infant presenting with recurrent vomiting, severe pallor, hypotonia and growth arrest. Laboratory tests revealed pancytopenia with macrocytic anaemia, hyperhomocysteinemia and markedly elevated methylma...

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Malattia di Castleman e linfoma: quale relazione?

Parini L, Mambelli L, Radice C, Mainetti M, Marchetti F

2025/3 — pag. 70-71 — DOI

Castleman disease (CD) is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder. The authors present the case of Laura, a 17-year-old girl diagnosed at the age of 13 with unicentric CD, which was treated with tocilizumab and achieved complete remission. Three years la...

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Dysgermi... Bomb

Lauriola RS, Terranova CM, Dell'Acqua F

2025/3 — pag. 56-58 — DOI

An otherwise healthy 16-year-old girl was brought to the emergency department due to persistent fatigue and microcytic anaemia. Upon physical examination in the emergency department, a palpable abdominal mass of firm consistency was found. For this r...

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2025/2

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Leishmania e linfoistiocitosi emofagocitica (HLH)

Bratta A, Arcuri L, Micalizzi C

2025/2 — pag. 51-52 — DOI

Haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a rare life-threatening hyperinflammatory syndrome. The paper reports the case of a 5-month-old infant hospitalised with persistent fever, splenomegaly and significant inflammatory activation. After an ini...

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Enteropatia protido-disperdente: la linfangectasia intestinale primitiva

Iacono Fullone O, Bacile D, Cassata N, Giallombardo D, Montalbano LM, Filice R, Cirano M, Graziano F

2025/2 — pag. 28-33 — DOI

Protein-losing enteropathy is a rare condition character-ised by protein loss through the intestines, which leads to hypoproteinemia. It may result from various causes, including primary intestinal lymphangiectasia, amyloido-sis, rheumatic diseases, ...

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Quando un deficit nutrizionale simula una displasia midollare

Roberti G, Wiedemann F, Polito B, Catena F, Costagliola G.

2025/1 — pag. 50-51 — DOI

presents with severe macrocytic anaemia and weight loss. Tests reveal deficiencies in vitamin B12 and folate, leading to a diagnosis of megaloblastic anaemia. Malnutrition related to the diet is suspected, and investigations are ongoing to rule ou...

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Non tutte le tumefazioni cervicali sono linfoadenopatie

Spacco G, Santaniello M, Bondi E, Castagnola E.

2025/1 — pag. 52-55 — DOI

Cervical masses are predominantly due to lymphadenopathy secondary to infectious or inflammatory processes, with congenital anomalies being less common. The paper describes the case of a 15-year-old girl presenting with a progressively enlarging, ten...

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Colecistite acuta da EBV

Favaretto E.

2025/1 — pag. 52-55 — DOI

The paper describes a rare instance of acute acalculous cholecystitis (ACC) in a 7-year-old boy caused by Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection. Initially, he was suspected to have appendicitis, but subsequently imaging and laboratory tests revealed ACC...

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Il bambino che zoppica: quando bisogna… pensarle tutte

Tumminelli C, Pastore S, Taddio A.

2025/1 — pag. 18-24 — DOI

Limping is a common clinical symptom in childhood and the diagnosis of the underlying cause may often be a challenge for the paediatrician. The paper describes the clinical manifestations, radiological pictures and disease course of other causes of l...

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Un caso di encefalopatia posteriore reversibile a tre giorni dalla diagnosi di leucemia linfoblastica acuta B

Gerosa GM, Kullmann GA, Leoni V, Alessandra Sala A, Gotti G, Rizzari C, Biondi A

2025/1 — pag. 1-3 — DOI

Posterior reversible leukoencephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a clinical radiographic syndrome of heterogeneous etiologies characterised by acute neurological symptoms of brain dysfunction with MRI abnormalities, primarily in posterior cerebral white a...

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2024/10

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Sir Anthony Epstein (1921-2024)

Guala A, Leutner M.

2024/10 — pag. 626-627 — DOI

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Quando l'anemia blocca le gambe

Bellotto A, Gagliardo di Carpinello B, Radice C, Addeo AM, Mambelli L, Marchetti F

2024/9 — pag. 191-192 — DOI

A 17-month-old girl was hospitalized for dehydration due to gastroenteritis. She presented with a severe microcytic anaemia (Hb 6.2 g/dl) linked to an exclusive breastfeeding diet. Attempts at introducing solid foods had failed. Despite improvement i...

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2024/7

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Tanto va la gatta al lardo che ci lascia lo zampino

Di Noto F, Scalzo S, Ganci I, Melfa M, La Cagnina G, Palermo RL, Cipolla D

2024/7 — pag. 468-470 — DOI

The case describes a seven-year-old boy with a painful swelling in the right armpit. After excluding a neoplastic condition and noting recent contact with cats, Cat Scratch Disease was diagnosed, confirmed by positive serology for Bartonella henselae...

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La B12 c'è ma non funziona

Vitale R.

2024/7 — pag. 468-470 — DOI

The paper reports the typical case and clinic of a defect in B12 metabolism. Such diseases, which are rare, mimic B12 intake or absorption deficits (crasis alterations, mixed neuropathy) but are distinguished first and foremost by the presence of nor...

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"Deep purple": un caso di purpura fulminans in asplenia congenita isolata

Cattaneo F, Mariani E, Lazzerotti A

2024/7 — pag. 468-470 — DOI

Asplenic patients are well-known to be at higher risk of infections, which are primarily caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae. Such infections may present with a sudden onset and a fulminant course, potentially leading to septic shock, purpura fulminan...

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Ematuria e proteinuria

Scaramuzzino F, Burlo F, Delcaro G, Peinkhofer M, Sutera M, Persia S, Emma F.

2024/7 — pag. 425-434 — DOI

Proteinuria and haematuria are common findings in children. However, they are indicative of a renal or urinary condition only in a minority of cases. The probability of an underlying disease causing haematuria and /or proteinuria increases when they...

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La B12 c'è ma non funziona

Vitale R

2024/7 — pag. 133-134 — DOI

The paper reports the typical case and clinic of a defect in B12 metabolism. Such diseases, which are rare, mimic B12 intake or absorption deficits (crasis alterations, mixed neuropathy) but are distinguished first and foremost by the presence of nor...

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La diagnosi di artrite idiopatica giovanile sistemica

Basilio P

2024/7 — pag. 140-140 — DOI

A 9-year-old boy presented with persistent fever, joint pain and productive cough not responding to antibiotic treatments. After negative diagnostic tests, a fleeting rash during a fever spike and neutrophilic leukocytosis led to the diagnosis of sys...

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Una diagnosi difficile da accettare

Vrinceanu AM

2024/7 — pag. 139-139 — DOI

An 18-month-old girl presented with low weight. Her parents denied her sickle cell anaemia diagnosis, confirmed at birth and neglected in treatment. Social and legal intervention was needed to ensure disease management. The case emphasizes the import...

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Tanto va la gatta al lardo che ci lascia lo zampino

Di Noto F, Scalzo S, Ganci I, Melfa M, La Cagnina G, Palermo RL, Cipolla D

2024/7 — pag. 137-138 — DOI

The case describes a seven-year-old boy with a painful swelling in the right armpit. After excluding a neoplastic condition and noting recent contact with cats, Cat Scratch Disease was diagnosed, confirmed by positive serology for Bartonella henselae...

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"Deep purple": un caso di purpura fulminans in asplenia congenita isolata

Cattaneo F, Mariani E, Lazzerotti A

2024/7 — pag. 129-132 — DOI

Asplenic patients are well-known to be at higher risk of infections, which are primarily caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae. Such infections may present with a sudden onset and a fulminant course, potentially leading to septic shock, purpura fulminan...

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Una presentazione atipica della porpora trombocitopenica immune

Leone G, Consentino MC, Pappalardo MG, Leonardi R, Scarlata F, Nannola C, Timpanaro T.

2024/5 — pag. 329-331 — DOI

The authors describe a case of idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia characterized by the onset of visual disturbances due to macular haemorrhage in the left eye....

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Sindrome da microdelezione 22q11.2

Cazzaniga L, Scupilliti S, Selicorni A.

2024/5 — pag. 321-323 — DOI

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La gestione della piastrinopenia immune acuta in età pediatrica

Parodi E, Russo G. a nome del GdL AIEOP

2024/5 — pag. 313-316 — DOI

This report summarizes the most relevant issues of the document that the Working Group on Coagulation Disorders of the Italian Association of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology (AIEOP) developed to gather shared expert opinions on the management of ...

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Cellule CAR T: universo in espansione

Moretti A, Biondi A.

2024/5 — pag. 309-312 — DOI

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Un caso di anemia macrocitica non megaloblastica: la sindrome di Blackfan Diamond

Aquisti G, Basso ME, Rabbone I

2024/5 — pag. 92-93 — DOI

The case of a two-year-old child with severe isolated anaemia (6 g%) and marked macrocytosis, ultimately diagnosed as Blackfan Diamond syndrome, is described. The genetic, clinical and prognostic aspects of the disease are briefly discussed....

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Difetti congeniti dell’immunità: non solo le vecchie immunodeficienze

Tommasini A, Valencic E, Naviglio S.

2024/4 — pag. 219-226 — DOI

Inborn errors of immunity are a rapidly-developing area of clinical study. Based on the description of a small set of disorders with a significant risk of infection that may be identified with a small number of lab tests, the definition has been expa...

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Febbre e citopenia nel neonato: pensa anche all'HLH (e dosa la ferritina!)

Operti M

2024/4 — pag. 80-81 — DOI

The author describes the case of a newborn with fever and cytopenia, eventually diagnosed as familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis....

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Crisi celiaca: una complicanza rara e insidiosa della celiachia

Barca M, Boccia M, Improta M, Discepolo V

2024/4 — pag. 59-63 — DOI

Coeliac Crisis is an urgent and potentially fatal complication of Coeliac Disease (CeD), which is most frequent in early childhood. The crisis may occur at onset or develop in CeD patients with poor compliance to the gluten-free diet (GFD). Stress, s...

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Le colelitiasi a origine ematologica

Fantasia M, Faraguna MC, Ferrari GM, Corti P.

2024/3 — pag. 187 — DOI

A 7-year-old girl presenting with acute abdominal pain due to gallstones was eventually diagnosed with spherocytosis....

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Un inspirio insolito: la vocal cord dysfunction

Fracas D.

2024/3 — pag. 189-192 — DOI

The diagnosis of vocal cord dysfunction was eventually made in a 10-year-old boy with repeated self-limited episodes of inspiratory dyspnoea....

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Quando il polmone ci suggerisce una immunodeficienza

Lo Scalzo L, Tumminello M, Corsello G

2024/3 — pag. 189-192 — DOI

A neonate affected by a severe respiratory infection was eventually diagnosed with severe combined immunodeficiency with hyper-IgE (Job syndrome)....

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Sindrome nefrosica e rischio tromboembolico

Cerverizzo M, Spagnoli C, Caponi L, Pugliese F.

2024/3 — pag. 189-192 — DOI

The case of a 13-year-old girl complaining of severe abdominal pain is presented. A pulmonary thromboembolism underlying a nephrotic syndrome was eventually diagnosed. ...

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Faringite e rivalutazione dello score di McIsaac

Salvatore B, Marchetti F.

2024/3 — pag. 148 — DOI

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Quando il polmone ci suggerisce una immunodeficienza

Lo Scalzo L, Tumminello M, Corsello G

2024/3 — pag. 58-58 — DOI

A neonate affected by a severe respiratory infection was eventually diagnosed with severe combined immunodeficiency with hyper-IgE (Job syndrome)....

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Menometrorragia come causa di grave anemia

D’Agostin M.

2024/2 — pag. 123-126 — DOI

A diagnosis of anaemia due to menometrorrhagia was eventually made in an 11-year-old severely anaemic girl....

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Quando PPD e TBC non vanno d'accordo: un caso di febbre persistente in lattante di 5 mesi

Repetto A, Merlo S, Ricci E, Saffioti C, Ferrando G, Santaniello M, Losurdo G, Castagnola E

2024/2 — pag. 121-122 — DOI

The case of a 5-month-old infant presenting with fever and finally diagnosed with PPD negative pulmonary and splenic TBC is presented and discussed....

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Un paziente scorbu… tico con dolore, edema e petecchie agli arti inferiori…

Basilio P.

2024/2 — pag. 120 — DOI

The diagnosis of vitamin C deficiency was eventually made in an autistic child complaining about leg pain. ...

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Più onco che ematologia: botta, risposta e sottolineature attraverso i casi

Peccatori N, Limido F, Faraguna MC, Dagri A, Coslovich S, Marchettini E, Rocco EM, Tessitore A, Biondi A.

2024/2 — pag. 95-100 — DOI

This study aims to explore unique aspects of onco-haematological diseases by offering paediatricians insights into their characteristics to better inform clinical practice. It emphasizes the importance of considering atypical presentations, like extr...

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Menometrorragia come causa di grave anemia

D’Agostin M

2024/2 — pag. 36-36 — DOI

A diagnosis of anaemia due to menometrorrhagia was eventually made in an 11-year-old severely anaemic girl....

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Anemia: sintomo o malattia?

Pentimalli E.

2024/1 — pag. 50-53 — DOI

The author describes an intriguing case finally diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in a 20-month-old boy presenting with severe anaemia....

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Sferocitosi: una famiglia... tre malattie!

Ferrara D, Giordano C, Borsellino Z, Cuccia L, Ruffo GB, Corsello G.

2024/1 — pag. 54-57 — DOI

The paper describes the cases of three siblings affected by Hereditary Spherocytosis (HS). The different clinical presentations in the same family are examples of the heterogeneity of this pathology. HS is a common inherited type of haemolytic anaemi...

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Quando pensare alla splenectomia in presenza di Beta-talassemia con drepanocitosi?

Stera G, Legnani E, Grasso A

2024/1 — pag. 21-21 — DOI

The authors describe the positive effect of splenectomy in two brothers affected by micro-drepanocytosis....

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Quando pensare alla sindrome di Noonan

Zuliani E

2024/1 — pag. 13-14 — DOI

Noonan syndrome is a pleomorphic genetic disorder that causes cardiovascular involvement in a high percentage of affected individuals. Care includes attentiveness to several comorbidities, some directly impacting cardiac management (bleeding diathese...

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Sferocitosi: una famiglia... tre malattie!

Ferrara D, Giordano C, Borsellino Z, Cuccia L, Ruffo GB, Corsello G

2024/1 — pag. 5-8 — DOI

The paper describes the cases of three siblings affected by Hereditary Spherocytosis (HS). The different clinical presentations in the same family are examples of the heterogeneity of this pathology. HS is a common inherited type of haemolytic anaemi...

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Pensa alla bronchite eosinofila

Fusco F.

2023/10 — pag. 662-663 — DOI

The diagnosis of eosinophilic bronchitis was finally done in a 4-year-old girl with dry, long lasting cough...

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Sarà veramente PFAPA?

Insalaco A, De Nardi L.

2023/10 — pag. 627-630 — DOI

PFAPA syndrome (Periodic Fever, Aphthous stomatitis, Pharyngitis and cervical Adenitis) is the most common periodic fever in childhood. It is a benign self-limiting condition that may resolve spontaneously during the first years of life or within ado...

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Il DADA(2) è tratto!

Aldera E, Dufour F, Mercuri C, Rosina S, Volpi S, Gattorno M, Caorsi R

2023/9 — pag. 600 — DOI

A diagnosis of adenosine deaminase 2 deficiency (a rare autoinflammatory, panarteritis-like disease) was eventually made in a 10-year-old girl who had been presenting with nodular skin lesion, unexplained fever and anaemia for three years. ...

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La sindrome di Turner

Nicolosi ML, Cattoni A, Selicorni A.

2023/9 — pag. 595-597 — DOI

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Quando il boccone non va giù: la disfagia in Pediatria attraverso i casi

Capata G, Lega S, Bramuzzo M, Di Leo G.

2023/9 — pag. 575-579 — DOI

Dysphagia is a disorder that affects one or more phases of the swallowing process. In paediatric age, it is often difficult to discriminate the underlying cause of this disorder. In this sense, a first distinction between oropharyngeal and oesophagea...

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Sindromi, genetica e immunologia: dall’inizio della fine alla fine dell’inizio

Guerra F, Saettini F, Biondi A.

2023/9 — pag. 569-574 — DOI

Syndromic immunodeficiencies are defined as a group of immunodeficiencies in which the immunological defect may be found only in a subgroup of patients. They fall within a more complex clinical picture and may not represent the primary clinical probl...

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Il gioco delle parti: bronchiolite e drepanocitosi

Izzo BPE, Radice C, Pelliccia V, Graziani V, Marchetti F

2023/9 — pag. 200-200 — DOI

The case of a 2-month-old Senegalese infant with severe anaemia and RSV-related bronchiolitis is described. The Authors stress the role of common infections in leading to the diagnosis of sickle cell anaemia....

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Malformazioni linfovascolari? Sì-rolimus!

Catelli A, Cantarini M, Grasso AG

2023/9 — pag. 199-199 — DOI

The case of a newborn with a complex lymphovascular malformation is presented. A somatic mutation of the PIK3CA gene was documented and the treatment with sirolimus was successfully administered....

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Le parassitosi intestinali

Nuzzi G, Riboldi L, Pietravalle A, Putoto G.

2023/8 — pag. 527-530 — DOI

Parasitic infections are still a major public health problem in developing countries. The paper presents the case of an 18-month-old girl taken by her mother to the paediatrics department of St. Luke’s Hospital in Wolisso, Ethiopia for general malais...

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Un caso complesso di citopenia trilineare ed epatite gigantocellulare

Comella M, Licciardello M, Miraglia V, Russo G

2023/8 — pag. 165-165 — DOI

The case of a five-year-old boy presenting with autoimmune anaemia, neutropenia and thrombocytopenia associated to giant cell hepatitis is described. The diagnosis of ALPS-like syndrome was eventually made....

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Una sindrome infiammatoria multisistemica “fredda” complicata da shock

Valencic I, Moratti M, Lombardi F, Francavilla R, Ghizzi C

2023/8 — pag. 151-156 — DOI

Rationale - In clinical practice there are numerous factors influencing the correct process of diagnosis and treatment, especially in the context of complex clinical cases such as severe and atypical forms of "multisystem inflammatory syndrome" (MIS-...

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Le parassitosi intestinali

Nuzzi G, Riboldi L, Pietravalle A, Putoto G

2023/8 — pag. 157-161 — DOI

Parasitic infections are still a major public health problem in developing countries. The paper presents the case of an 18-month-old girl taken by her mother to the paediatrics department of St. Luke’s Hospital in Wolisso, Ethiopia for general malais...

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Allarme rosso: il sanguinamento rettale

Fracas D, Di Leo G.

2023/7 — pag. 465-468 — DOI

A 6-week-old, exclusively breastfed and well-appearing infant presented with blood in her stools. A diagnosis of food protein-induced allergic proctocolitis was promptly made by the presence of the high number of eosinophils in her blood and the prom...

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Ci stavano dentro fino al collo, i linfonodi...

Di Toro Mammarella M.

2023/7 — pag. 465-468 — DOI

The author describes the case of an 8-year-old child presenting with neck pain and vomiting without fever. A diagnosis of retropharyngeal abscess was eventually made....

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Il farmaco più costoso del mondo

Guala A, Parodi E.

2023/7 — pag. 415-416 — DOI

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Allarme rosso: il sanguinamento rettale

Fracas D, Di Leo G

2023/7 — pag. 135-135 — DOI

A 6-week-old, exclusively breastfed and well-appearing infant presented with blood in her stools. A diagnosis of food protein-induced allergic proctocolitis was promptly made by the presence of the high number of eosinophils in her blood and the prom...

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Ci stavano dentro fino al collo, i linfonodi...

Di Toro Mammarella M

2023/7 — pag. 134-134 — DOI

The author describes the case of an 8-year-old child presenting with neck pain and vomiting without fever. A diagnosis of retropharyngeal abscess was eventually made....

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Trichophyton mentagrophytes Linfocitoma da Borrelia

2023/6 — pag. 404 — DOI

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Non c’è due senza DRESS

Paoletti B, Sollai S, Mirri S, Pelosi P, Brambilla A, Cupone R, Bini R, Cocchi C, Mori F, Ferrara G, Mirri G.

2023/6 — pag. 399-402 — DOI

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Lesioni ossee simmetriche e drepanocitosi

Franzone D, Chianucci B, Basso L, Guardo D, Bellini T, Piccotti E.

2023/6 — pag. 399-402 — DOI

An 8-year-old boy suffering from sickle cell disease (SCD) was admitted to emergency unit complaining of moderate-to-severe pain in his lower limbs. He received chronic transfusion therapy and hydroxyurea. Apparently, he had never experienced vaso-oc...

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Lesioni ossee simmetriche e drepanocitosi

Franzone D, Chianucci B, Basso L, Guardo D, Bellini T, Piccotti E

2023/6 — pag. 100-101 — DOI

An 8-year-old boy suffering from sickle cell disease (SCD) was admitted to emergency unit complaining of moderate-to-severe pain in his lower limbs. He received chronic transfusion therapy and hydroxyurea. Apparently, he had never experienced vaso-oc...

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Non c’è due senza DRESS

Paoletti B, Sollai S, Mirri S, Pelosi P, Brambilla A, Cupone R, Bini R, Cocchi C, Mori F, Ferrara G, Mirri G

2023/6 — pag. 102-103 — DOI

A diagnosis of DRESS (Drug Reaction with Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms) was finally made in a 15-year-old epileptic boy with itching maculopapular rash and high blood eosinophil count....

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Ipertrofia tonsillare asimmetrica Diabete: time in range

2023/5 — pag. 335 — DOI

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Anarchia alimentare e deficit di vitamina B12

Lepri I.

2023/5 — pag. 331-334 — DOI

The diagnosis of vitamin B12 deficiency was finally made in a 5-year-old girl following a very selective diet and presenting with weight loss, abdominal pain and severe peripheral pancytopenia....

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Febbre e gengivostomatite: non è sempre solo herpes simplex

Arnaboldi S.

2023/5 — pag. 331-334 — DOI

Gingivostomatitis is a clinical condition frequently diagnosed by the family paediatrician and it generally shows a viral aetiology. In particular, primary herpes simplex infection is the most frequent cause of gingivostomatitis in toddlers and it ty...

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Le prove coagulative nel bambino sano (seconda parte)

Romano F, Del Monte F, Ramenghi U, Parodi E.

2023/5 — pag. 307-311 — DOI

In Paediatrics, coagulation tests are often prescribed in children without bleeding symptoms, for example before surgery/invasive procedures, or in case of family history of coagulopathy. Moreover, sometimes impairment in coagulation tests is occasio...

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Una “vistosa” vasculite con edema, che riguarda gli arti e il viso e risparmia il tronco

Marchetti F, Izzo BPE, Scaioli M, Graziani V, Turlà G, Mambelli L.

2023/5 — pag. 301-305 — DOI

Acute haemorrhagic oedema of infancy (AHEI) is a small vessel vasculitis that affects boys between 4 months and 2 years. It presents with a characteristic purpuric skin rash but with marked bruising and “typical” localizations in auricles and is ofte...

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Vasculiti facili e difficili: cosa deve sapere e saper fare un pediatra

De Nardi L, Petrone MI, Benvenuto S, Natoli V, Abu-Rumeileh S, Castaldo B, De Benedetti F.

2023/5 — pag. 286-298 — DOI

Vasculitis is defined by a state of inflammation of the blood vessel walls. It can result in formation of either aneurysms or stenosis with ischemia and necrosis. The heterogeneity of clinical presentation depends on the type and size of the vessels ...

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Anarchia alimentare e deficit di vitamina B12

Lepri I

2023/5 — pag. 92-92 — DOI

The diagnosis of vitamin B12 deficiency was finally made in a 5-year-old girl following a very selective diet and presenting with weight loss, abdominal pain and severe peripheral pancytopenia....

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Menometrorragia da irregolarità mestruale disfunzionale: quando è troppo è troppo

D’Agostin M

2023/5 — pag. 90-90 — DOI

The case of an 11-year-old girl with recent menarche presenting with heavy and uninterrupted menstrual cycle and severe iron deficiency anaemia is described. The diagnosis of post menarche hormonal dysfunction was finally made and the girl was succes...

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Febbre e gengivostomatite: non è sempre solo herpes simplex

Arnaboldi S

2023/5 — pag. 76-77 — DOI

Gingivostomatitis is a clinical condition frequently diagnosed by the family paediatrician and it generally shows a viral aetiology. In particular, primary herpes simplex infection is the most frequent cause of gingivostomatitis in toddlers and it ty...

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La polmonite da adenovirus

Zago A, Benvenuto S.

2023/4 — pag. 261-263 — DOI

The author describes the case of a 3-year-old boy presenting with cough and fever that had been persisting for seven days and not respondent to amoxicillin. Neutrophilic leukocytosis and diarrhoea were also present. The diagnosis of adenovirus infect...

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Infezione da virus di Epstein-Barr: citopenia e colecisti ispessita

Benvenuto S.

2023/4 — pag. 260 — DOI

The author describes the case of a 13-year-old girl presenting with abdominal pain, thrombocytopoenia and neutropoenia. A thickened gallbladder was evident at abdominal sonography. The diagnosis of EBV infection, based on serological investigation, w...

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Le prove coagulative nel bambino che sanguina (prima parte)

Del Monte F, Romano F, Parodi E, Ramenghi U.

2023/4 — pag. 249-254 — DOI

This brief report presents a practical approach to the diagnosis of the main coagulopathies in children with haemorrhagic manifestations. It discusses the clinical-anamnestic elements that should suggest further laboratory investigations. Then, after...

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La polmonite da adenovirus

Zago A, Benvenuto S

2023/4 — pag. 75-75 — DOI

The author describes the case of a 3-year-old boy presenting with cough and fever that had been persisting for seven days and not respondent to amoxicillin. Neutrophilic leukocytosis and diarrhoea were also present. The diagnosis of adenovirus infect...

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Diarrea emorragica: a volte i nodi vengono al pettine tardi

De Crescenzo S, La Scola C, Pillon R, Pasini A, Lami F, Pession A

2023/4 — pag. 72-72 — DOI

The case of a two-year-old girl finally diagnosed with haemolytic uremic syndrome is described....

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Gestione del contatto con animali nei bambini oncoematologici

Fiumana G, Botta D, Dalla Porta MF, Macchi S, Soncini E, Santaniello A, Paciello O, Cellini M, Cesaro S

2023/4 — pag. 61-69 — DOI

Contact with animals in oncohaematological children is associated with many benefits, but the risk of contracting zoonosis, even if low, must be taken into consideration. To evaluate awareness on this topic a survey between the Italian paediatric onc...

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Il bambino con anemia severa: proposta di gestione diagnostico-terapeutica

Muratore E, Ruggi A, Abram N, Zanaroli A, Pierantoni L, Lanari M, Zama D.

2023/3 — pag. 159-168 — DOI

Anaemia is a common issue in the paediatric age group and it is not uncommon to encounter severe cases of anaemia in the Paediatric Emergency Unit. The correct identification of patients requiring urgent care is of central importance to provide timel...

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La solita anemia sideropenica non responsiva

Talloa D

2023/3 — pag. 54-54 — DOI

The author describes the case of a 15-year-old girl presenting with unresponsive iron deficiency anaemia and splenomegaly finally diagnosed as Gaucher’s disease....

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Quando l’anemia viene da un’infezione da parvovirus

Tolomelli E, Legnani E, Grasso A

2023/3 — pag. 53-53 — DOI

The author describes the case of a 2-year-old boy presenting with aplastic anaemia due to documented parvovirus infection of the bone marrow without a specific seroconversion....

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Una MIS-C come possibile spia di errori congeniti dell’immunità

Drago E, Massaccesi E, Ridella F, Scalas M, Caorsi R, Fioredda F

2023/3 — pag. 52-52 — DOI

The Authors described the case of a 2-year-old child presenting with the typical clinical features of MIS-C finally diagnosed as Wiskott-Aldrich immunodeficiency....

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Quando la tumefazione laterocervicale è una cisti branchiale

Gamba S

2023/2 — pag. 40-40 — DOI

The author describes the case of a 10-year-old boy presenting with a lateral cervical swelling. A branchial cyst was finally diagnosed....

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Kawasaki? Adenovirus? Kawasaki da adenovirus o con adenovirus?

Accomando F, Aricò MO, Valletta E.

2023/1 — pag. 55-58 — DOI

Kawasaki disease (KD) still represents a challenge for differential diagnosis because it shares clinical features with other infectious diseases. Adenovirus infection has many symptoms that can be found among the diagnostic criteria of KD. However, t...

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MIRM o Kawasaki atipica? Uno strano caso di mucosite e febbre

Raitano V, Tisato MG, Deganello-Saccomani M

2023/1 — pag. 14-14 — DOI

The Authors describe the case of a 2-year-old girl finally diagnosed as MIRM (Mycoplasma pneumoniae-induced rash and mucositis) at first suspected as Kawasaki disease. The antibiotic therapy (azitromicin) was not effective while the clinical resoluti...

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Kawasaki? Adenovirus? Kawasaki da adenovirus o con adenovirus?

Accomando F, Aricò MO, Valletta E

2023/1 — pag. 6-10 — DOI

Kawasaki disease (KD) still represents a challenge for differential diagnosis because it shares clinical features with other infectious diseases. Adenovirus infection has many symptoms that can be found among the diagnostic criteria of KD. However, t...

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Un caso insolito di trombocitopenia

Barachino A

2023/1 — pag. 4-5 — DOI

A two-and-a-half-year-old child presents with spontaneous ecchymosis. In addition to severe thrombocytopoenia, initial investigations show the presence of neutropoenia and signs of immune-mediated haemolysis (positivity of the direct antiglobulin tes...

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Tosse secca persistente Asma e spirometria

2022/10 — pag. 659 — DOI

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Leccare i muri, mangiare i sassi: il picacismo. Realtà o leggenda?

Faraguna MC.

2022/10 — pag. 654-656 — DOI

A series of 14 cases affected by pica related to iron deficient anaemia is described. The epidemiologic, clinical and therapeutic implications of pica are discussed....

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Leccare i muri, mangiare i sassi: il picacismo. Realtà o leggenda?

Faraguna MC

2022/10 — pag. 210-210 — DOI

A series of 14 cases affected by pica related to iron deficient anaemia is described. The epidemiologic, clinical and therapeutic implications of pica are discussed....

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Fetal inflammatory response syndrome (FIRS): che cosa è, quando bisogna pensarci

Tagliani S, Casadio L, Bruno I, Graziani G, Radice C, Zago S, Piccinini G, Marchetti F

2022/10 — pag. 200-204 — DOI

The paper describes a case of severe hyperleukocytosis in a preterm with FIRS (Fetal Inflammatory Response Syndrome) associated with funisitis of umbilical cord and intrauterine inflammation. FIRS is a cause of leukocytosis in newborn, as well as leu...

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Il dupilumab nell’esofagite eosinofila: una nuova frontiera?

Mainetti M, Troisi A, Turlà G, Fontijn S, Rametta G, Buzzi A, Mussetto A, Marchetti F.

2022/9 — pag. 583-587 — DOI

Eosinophilic oesophagitis (EoE) is a chronic, immune-mediated or antigen-mediated oe-sophageal disease. Therapeutic first-line options currently available for EoE are elimina-tion diets, proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and steroids. The ultimate goal o...

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Una crisi convulsiva… emolitica

Posocco F

2022/9 — pag. 193-193 — DOI

The Author describes the case of an 18-month-old child presenting with convulsions and poor general conditions and eventually diagnosed with uraemic-haemolytic syndrome....

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Un diverticolo (dav)vero sanguinante

Tessitore A

2022/8 — pag. 527-530 — DOI

Meckel diverticulum has been suspected and then diagnosed at laparoscopic exploration of the abdomen in a severely anaemic 16-month-old child with acute intestinal bleeding. The surgical indication of all unexplained intestinal bleedings is discussed...

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Lo scorbuto, segnale di allarme di un disturbo dello spettro autistico

Liuzzo Scorpo M, Corsello G, Maggio MC.

2022/8 — pag. 524-526 — DOI

The authors describe the case of a 3-year-old girl with bleeding gums and leg pain finally diagnosed with vitamin C deficiency (scurvy) and autistic spectrum disorder (ASD). The increased risk of developing scurvy due to a restricted diet in children...

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Un mal di schiena fastidioso

Trombetta A, Corona F, Cozzi C, Barbi E.

2022/8 — pag. 519-520 — DOI

A 7-year-old boy was admitted to the Emergency Unit for a one-month history of low back pain, which got worse and resulted in a refusal to walk. On physical examination, the patient refused to stand, and palpation of the spinous processes of the lumb...

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L’epistassi

Zago A, Grasso D, Barbi E.

2022/8 — pag. 499-504 — DOI

Epistaxis is a common condition in childhood. Anterior nosebleeds are most common, almost always self-limited and rarely life-threatening. Infective and allergic rhinitis, mucosal dryness, trauma, foreign body, rhinitis and digital manipulation can c...

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Tubercolosi in età pediatrica: una diagnosi potenzialmente elusiva

Guida G, Garancini N, Rubinacci V, Zuccotti G, Giacomet V

2022/8 — pag. 172-173 — DOI

The paper presents the case of Pakistani girl with low-grade fever, malaise and non-specific abdominal pain, finally diagnosed with pulmonary and extra-pulmonary TB. ...

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Un’anemia cronica che nasconde una vasculite

Cernich M, Baggio L, Guarnieri M

2022/8 — pag. 171-171 — DOI

The case of a 14-year-old anaemic girl with paraesthesia finally diagnosed with Takayasu arteritis is presented and discussed....

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Conosco i miei polli: due casi di diarrea da Campylobacter

Tommesani C.

2022/7 — pag. 461-463 — DOI

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Ittero, pallore e urine scure: e se fosse un’anemia emolitica autoimmune?

Tessitore A, Putoto E, Romano F, Verzegnassi F, Barbi E, Cozzi G, Parodi E.

2022/7 — pag. 451-455 — DOI

The haemolytic crisis is a sudden reduction in the half-life of red blood cells. Consequently, it leads to massive destruction of red blood cells (haemolysis), which is more significant than the compensatory capacity of the bone marrow and results in...

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L’ipogammaglobulinemia che aiuta a spiegare una anemia microcitica di difficile interpretazione

Catania MA, Trizzino A, Mosa C, Trizzino A, Regina I, Ferrari S, D’Angelo P

2022/7 — pag. 152-152 — DOI

The case of a 3-month-year old child presenting with microcytic anaemia is described. He subsequently developed viral encephalitis. The presence of hypogammaglobulinemia and of a mutation in TRNT1 gene at the genome analysis (NSC) led to the diagnosi...

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Quando la malaria tarda a farsi riconoscere: un’infezione da Plasmodium ovale

Polenzani I, Lisco L, Cozzolino M, Casolari S, Valenti S, Fontijn S, Uva A, Marchetti F.

2022/6 — pag. 381-385 — DOI

Plasmodium ovale is a cause of non-falciparum malaria infection that is endemic in tropical Western Africa. The life cycle of Plasmodium ovale includes hypnozoites, which are dormant stages in the liver. These stages can be reactivated after weeks, m...

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Travolti da un insolito destino nell’immenso mare degli eosinofili

Iannicelli A.

2022/6 — pag. 393-395 — DOI

The case of an adolescent with persistent cough and blood eosinophilia eventually diagnosed as idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome is presented. The diagnostic approach to hypereosinophilia is discussed....

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Gastrite eosinofila: una causa di possibile anemia sideropenica

Brugnera G, Mario F, Martelossi S, Pavanello P, Pizzol A.

2022/6 — pag. 393-395 — DOI

A case of eosinophilic gastritis (EG) associated with severe iron deficiency anaemia is described. The authors recommend to consider EG in approaching the diagnosis of iron deficiency anaemia associated with intestinal bleeding....

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Secondo i miei “calcoli”... non è una gastrite

Arnaboldi S, Quattrocchi G, Ferrari GM, Corti P

2022/6 — pag. 129-130 — DOI

The case of an 11-year-old girl affected by hereditary spherocytosis admitted to hospital for abdominal pain is described. The diagnosis of cholelithiasis was eventually made....

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Sangue nel vomito… eosinofili nello stomaco

Paganin P

2022/6 — pag. 135-135 — DOI

The case of a 4-month-year-old infant presenting with blood vomiting eventually diagnosed as food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES) is described. The main clinical and diagnostic aspects of FPIES are also discussed....

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Due anni di MIS-C: peculiarità cliniche e orizzonti terapeutici

Mambelli L, Uva A, Iacono A, Del Vecchio L, Bianchedi I, Nuzzo A, Malta B, Marchetti F.

2022/5 — pag. 299-306 — DOI

Introduction - MIS-C is the most relevant complication of SARS-CoV-2 infection and has an incidence of 1 case / 2,200 children and adolescents with previous infection. The clinical picture is characterized by a multiorgan involvement and an insuffici...

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Pensa anche alla tubercolosi

Lepri I, Riva B, Melzi ML.

2022/4 — pag. 255-258 — DOI

The cases of two adolescents with neck lymphadenitis respectively coming from Morocco and Philippines are described. They were eventually diagnosed with tuberculous lymphadenitis (TBL). The clinical features, the risk factors and the diagnostic appro...

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Febbre e lesioni ipoecogene di fegato e milza

Zanatta L.

2022/4 — pag. 255-258 — DOI

Two cases of systemic bartonellosis are described. They both presented with long lasting, unexplained fever and multiple hyopoechoic hepato-splenic images on ultrasound examination....

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Un’adolescente con uno strano e persistente gonfiore alle caviglie

Corona F, Trombetta A, Genovese MR, Gortani G, Barbi E.

2022/4 — pag. 249-250 — DOI

A fourteen-year-old girl presented with a history of intermittent bilateral swelling in her ankles associated with moderate but progressively worsening pain that lasted for two years. The patient had been previously investigated and ankle X-rays, US ...

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Lesioni osteolitiche multiple: osteomielite cronica non batterica o istiocitosi?

Natale MF, Celani C, Messia V, Pardeo M, De Benedetti F, Insalaco A

2022/4 — pag. 96-96 — DOI

A case of a 7-year-old girl finally diagnosed with Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is presented. The differential diagnosis between LCH and chronic nonbacterial osteomyelitis (CNO) is discussed....

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Che faccia di bronzo! L’atresia delle vie biliari

Morra L, Risso FM, Travan L

2022/4 — pag. 94-94 — DOI

The case of a newborn treated for haemolytic anaemia and hyperbilirubinaemia is described. An Extrahepatic Biliary Atresia (EBA) was eventually suspected after the appearance of a bronze discoloration of the skin....

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Approccio pratico al bambino “sempre stanco”

Gortani G.

2022/3 — pag. 168-172 — DOI

Fatigue is a common, nonspecific symptom with many different aetiologies. The term “fatigue” can be used to describe muscular weakness, difficulty or inability to initiate activity (subjective sense of weakness), reduced capacity to maintain activity...

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Esposizioni radiodiagnostiche in età evolutiva

Corbella D, Tinelli D, Righini A.

2022/3 — pag. 161-167 — DOI

An increase in the quantitative lifetime radiation risk in the paediatric age, correlated with an exponential rise in computed tomography (CT) examinations, has been observed worldwide. Moreover, a positive association between the exposure to radiati...

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Una tumefazione dell’osso in sede parietale

Roveran M, Benincasa C, Biserna L, Radice C, Romeo C, Fabbri E, Marchetti F.

2022/2 — pag. 115-116 — DOI

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Quando la linfoistiocitosi emofagocitica è secondaria

Ventresca S, Fabbri E, Bracaglia C, Gasperini P, Filippini B, Libertucci F, Bigucci B, Pericoli R, Vergine G.

2022/2 — pag. 97-102 — DOI

The paper describes the case of a 1-year-old Caucasian boy with a 1-month history of fever and splenomegaly. Laboratory findings showed pancytopenia, hypertriglyceridemia and hyperferritinemia. Secondary haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis was suspec...

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Che cos’è la linfangectasia intestinale?

Razza R

2022/2 — pag. 57-57 — DOI

The case of a 3-month-old infant with severe malnutrition and protein-losing enteropathy finally diagnosed as congenital intestinal lymphangiectasia is presented. The diagnostic and therapeutic challenges of this intriguing disease are discussed....

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Affinché non MIS-Cappi il caso: l’esperienza di Palermo sulla sindrome infiammatoria multisistemica SARS-CoV-2-correlata

Giordano S, Pirrone I, Restivo GA, Collura F, Saia GF, Maggio MC, Finazzo F, Failla MC, Colomba C, Siracusa L.

2021/10 — pag. 660-663 — DOI

Background - Covid-19 is less frequent and milder in children than in adults. However, cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (MIS-C) have been reported in children, whose phenotype resembles atypical Kawasak...

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Eritema nodoso: gatta ci cova

Bacci C, Picariello S, Vierucci F, Bassi A, Mazzatenta C, Vaccaro A.

2021/10 — pag. 660-663 — DOI

Erythema nodosum is a panniculitis that can be triggered by many different stimuli. The paper describes the case of a child who presented with erythema nodosum as the unique clinical manifesta-tion of cat scratch disease. Bartonella henselae infectio...

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Chi è vivo deve ridere

Minute M.

2021/10 — pag. 620 — DOI

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Eritema nodoso: gatta ci cova

Bacci C, Picariello S, Vierucci F, Bassi A, Mazzatenta C, Vaccaro A

2021/10 — pag. 304-308 — DOI

Erythema nodosum is a panniculitis that can be triggered by many different stimuli. The paper describes the case of a child who presented with erythema nodosum as the unique clinical manifestation of cat scratch disease. Bartonella henselae infection...

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Affinché non MIS-Cappi il caso: l’esperienza di Palermo sulla sindrome infiammatoria multisistemica SARS-CoV-2-correlata

Giordano S, Pirrone I, Restivo GA, Collura F, Saia GF, Maggio MC, Finazzo F, Failla MC, Colomba C, Siracusa L

2021/10 — pag. 289-297 — DOI

Background - Covid-19 is less frequent and milder in children than in adults. However, cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (MIS-C) have been reported in children, whose phenotype resembles atypical Kawasak...

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Bartonellosi e D-dimero

Licitra M, Acucella G, Barbaglia M, Mazzocchi P, Bottari G, Guala A

2021/10 — pag. 298-303 — DOI

The paper reports the case of a 17-year-old immunocompetent boy with persistent fever and elevated D-dimer. The family referred contact with kitten and ingestion of homemade deer salami. Abdominal ultrasound scan and CT showed multiple hepatic and sp...

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Scorbuto: ancora un problema dei nostri giorni?

Grieco C, Alessio M.

2021/9 — pag. 595-596 — DOI

Scurvy is a condition due to chronic ascorbic acid deficiency, responsible for vascular fragility and impaired bone formation. The result is gingival bleeding, petechial lesions, articular and bone pain or limb swelling. Children may also present wit...

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Ecchimosi sospette

Brienza C, Imperatore A, Nunziata F.

2021/9 — pag. 593-594 — DOI

The paper reports the case of a 3-month girl presenting with “bruising of unknown origin”. Clinical findings sustained the diagnosis of “maltreatment”....

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Anemia severa, arresto di crescita... e dintorni

Tognato E, Fiorica L, Perona A, Loperfido B, Cimminelli L, Ceratto S, Enrico G, Felici E, Manzoni P

2021/9 — pag. 277-279 — DOI

Iron deficiency is the most commonly detected nutritional disorder in childhood and at the same time the most frequent cause of anaemia worldwide. In most cases it can go unnoticed, because it causes subtle symptoms and signs. Iron plays a key role i...

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Disturbo della condotta alimentare, ecchimosi e carenza di vitamina C

Attico A, Iacono A, Biserna L, Brandolini S, Marchetti F

2021/9 — pag. 273-276 — DOI

The paper presents the case of a 16-year-old girl with a 6-month history of eating disorder, restrictive subtype and diffuse ecchymosis. Anamnestic history and laboratory investigations allowed excluding coagulation disorders and making the diagnosis...

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Scorbuto: ancora un problema dei nostri giorni?

Grieco C, Alessio M

2021/9 — pag. 270-272 — DOI

Scurvy is a condition due to chronic ascorbic acid deficiency responsible for vascular fragility and impaired bone formation. The result is gingival bleeding, petechial lesions and articular and bone pain or limb swelling. Children may also present w...

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Una “crisi” celiaca

Lenhardt A, Salierno P, Calipa MT, Milocco C, Saletta S, Giglia D, Petaros P, Pascolo P, Dragovic D

2021/8 — pag. 529-532 — DOI

The authors present the case of a 3-year-old child with severe diarrhoea, hypoalbuminaemia, hypogammaglobulinaemia and anaemia eventually diagnosed as coeliac. The clinical features of the so-called coeliac crisis are discussed....

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Quando non trascurare la splenomegalia nel lattante

Zama D, Parladori R, Muratore E, Melchionda F, Baronio F, Pession A

2021/8 — pag. 501-507 — DOI

Splenomegaly in children is really common and its main cause is infectious disease. The aetiology in newborns and older children is well established, while it is less defined in suckling infants. The paper describes three cases of splenomegaly in inf...

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Una “crisi” celiaca

Lenhardt A, Salierno P, Calipa MT, Milocco C, Saletta S, Giglia D, Petaros P, Pascolo P, Dragovic D

2021/8 — pag. 254-255 — DOI

The authors present the case of a 3-year-old child with severe diarrhoea, hypoalbuminaemia, hypogammaglobulinaemia and anaemia eventually diagnosed as coeliac. The clinical features of the so-called coeliac crisis are discussed....

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La sindrome "Cefalea e deficit neurologici transitori con linfocitosi liquorale": un’altra encefalopatia autoimmune?

Morelli ME, Carrozzi M

2021/8 — pag. 241-245 — DOI

Headache and neurologic deficits with cerebrospinal fluid lymphocytosis syndrome (HaNDL) is a rare nosographic entity, which mainly affects adults but can also occur in the paediatric age. In the literature, 31 cases in this age group are described. ...

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Rapida evoluzione di una istiocitosi a cellule di Langerhans cutanea isolata

Brusadelli C, Dell’Acqua F, Vendemini F, Ferrari GM, Corti P

2021/7 — pag. 197-200 — DOI

The paper reports the case of a three-month-old girl presenting with maculopapular lesions all over her scalp, trunk, axilla region and groin. One month earlier she had been diagnosed with LCH through skin biopsy for persisting maculopapular rash. No...

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Un’anemia che toglie il fiato

Giannone V, Garrone E, Tardivo I, Versace A, Castagno E, Conrieri M

2021/7 — pag. 218-219 — DOI

Mycoplasma pneumoniae is commonly associated not only with atypical pneumonia, but also with different clinical features. The paper reports the case of a 10-year-old girl with pneumonia, fictitious anaemia, due to the presence of cryo-agglutinins, an...

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Reumatologia

Taddio A, De Benedetti F

2021/26 — pag. 15 — DOI

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Oncoematologia

Biondi A, Rabusin M, Ramenghi U

2021/26 — pag. 12 — DOI

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Nefrologia

Emma F, Pennesi M

2021/26 — pag. 8 — DOI

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Un vaccino falcemico

Sambugaro D

2021/6 — pag. 394-394 — DOI

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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Tutto quello che il pediatra dovrebbe sapere sul mepolizumab

Prisco A, Carlone G, Maschio M, Badina L, Barbi E

2021/6 — pag. 374-378 — DOI

Mepolizumab, a monoclonal antibody blocking IL-5, is efficacious in the treatment of severe lung diseases sharing eosinophilic inflammation pattern. The paper describes two cases in which the drug was used with excellent results. The first involved a...

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Il bambino prematuro va sempre supplementato con il ferro

Parpanesi M

2021/5 — pag. 154-154 — DOI

The Author describes a severe case of iron deficiency and sideropoenic anaemia in an infant born at 35 weeks of gestation. The importance of the iron supplementation in preterm newborns is discussed....

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Un bambino che non mangia… e non sta seduto

Trippella G, Iacopelli J

2021/5 — pag. 157-157 — DOI

The Authors describe the case of an 11-month-old infant with severe vitamin B12 deficiency consequent to a strict vegan diet followed by the mother during pregnancy and to a strictly vegan weaning. The child presented with food refusal, somatic growt...

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Le sindromi autoinfiammatorie: quando non è solo PFAPA

Tommasini A, Lepore L

2021/4 — pag. 221-225 — DOI

PFAPA (Periodic Fever, Aphthous Stomatitis, Pharyngitis and Adenitis) is the most common self-inflammatory disorder in children. The diagnosis of PFAPA is easy, based on Thomas criteria, and the prognosis is good. Differential diagnosis with heredita...

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La sindrome di Chediak-Higashi a esordio tardivo

Ciancia S, Dalla Porta MF, Cingolani GM, Cellini M, Soresina A, Badolato R, Mariotti I, Cano Garcinuno MdC, Iughetti L

2021/4 — pag. 118-123 — DOI

Chediak-Higashi syndrome (CHS) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations in the CHS1/LYST gene, encoding for LYST protein, involved in lysosomal trafficking. It is characterized by recurrent bacterial infections, oculocutaneous albin...

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Un’anemia emolitica da sferocitosi ereditaria

Ursi D, Valentino MS

2021/3 — pag. 193-195 — DOI

A case of haemolytic anaemia due to spherocytosis in a 3-month-old infant is reported. It is important to remember that post-transfusion blood tests are not reliable and must be repeated 3 months after the transfusion. The erythrocyte osmotic resista...

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Due fratelli con i globuli rossi stressati

Ceratto S, Tognato E, Fiorica L, Enrico G, Cimminelli L, Eshraghy MR, Loperfido B, Pagani A, Bertola A, Militello MA, Spola R, Perona A, Manzoni P

2021/3 — pag. 193-195 — DOI

The paper describes the case of two Caucasian brothers (11 and 12 years old resepctively) who for the first time presented with acute haemolysis due to glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency. The two brothers showed different severity of sympto...

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Alcune malattie trasmesse da alimenti da non dimenticare

Bonadies A, Corvino F, Rosa M, Ruggiero L, Apicella A, Tipo V, Ponticiello E

2021/3 — pag. 167-172 — DOI

Foodborne diseases (FBDs) are still a major public health problem. They are often caused by toxic sub-stances due to incorrect food storage. The paper describes three cases of FBD recently observed: the first concerns the so-called scombroid syndrome...

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Torcicollo e malattia di Kawasaki

Rubino C, Trapani S

2021/3 — pag. 86-86 — DOI

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Trauma toracico e... lacerazione epatica

Parpanesi M

2021/3 — pag. 84-84 — DOI

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Tromboembolismo e malattia infiammatoria cronica dell’intestino

Bramuzzo M

2021/2 — pag. 127-129

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Toxic shock syndrome

Conte M, Zanella G

2021/1 — pag. 27-27 — DOI

A toxic shock syndrome (TSS) was eventually diagnosed in a four-year-old girl who attended the Emergency Department with a clinical picture suggestive of scarlet fever. The present paper briefly discusses the therapeutic approach to TSS....

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Una FPIES in una neonata

Risso FM, Romano S

2021/1 — pag. 25-25 — DOI

Food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES) is a non-immunoglobulin E cell-mediated gastrointestinal food allergy that usually occurs in infancy. The paper presents and discusses a case of FPIES with neonatal onset....

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Sindrome di Morquio e sferocitosi ereditaria

S.M.C. Gramaglia, M. Lo Presti, C. Casà, G. Gramaglia

2020/10 — pag. 248-251 — DOI

Metabolic diseases are rare genetic conditions in the paediatric age. The diagnostic process is often complex and the diagnosis comes even years after the onset of symptoms. The article presents the only documented case of Morquio syndrome and heredi...

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Picacismo e anemia

R. Conti, E. Da Dalt, M. Miani

2020/9 — pag. 599 — DOI

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Una grave anemizzazione

M. Cognigni

2020/9 — pag. 599 — DOI

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Ostruzioni nasali e russamento: da tre casi insoliti una lezione per il pediatra

R. Masetti, D. Leardini, L. Ronchini, S. Riolo, F. Guida, F. Baccelli, S. Cerasi, T. Papaleo, L. Bertelli, A. Pession

2020/9 — pag. 585-589 — DOI

Nasal obstruction with or without snoring is a frequent condition and, as such, it is easily disregarded by paediatricians and by parents as well. The paper describes three “unforgettable” clinical cases that must be a warning to investigate and not ...

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La granulomatosi eosinofilica con poliangioite: dalla pelle al cuore

M. Pavan, A. Agrusti, A. Trombetta, S. Pastore, A. Tommasini, V. Moressa, F. Marchetti, A. Taddio, A. Ventura

2020/9 — pag. 569-574 — DOI

Background - Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis, formerly known as Churg-Strauss syndrome, is an extremely rare systemic vasculitis in the paediatric population. The hallmarks of eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis are a long his...

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CAMT: trombocitopenia amegacariocitica congenita

V. Carrato

2020/9 — pag. 239-239 — DOI

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Anemia normocitica e dosaggio degli ormoni tiroidei

E. Ferretti, C.M. Pini, L. Luti

2020/9 — pag. 228-230 — DOI

The paper describes the case of an 11-year-old girl presenting with normocytic hyporegenerative anaemia associated with increase of transaminases, CK and LDH. On physical exam skin pallor, mask-like facies and dry skin were observed; weight and heigh...

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Malattia di Kawasaki: quale dose di immunoglobuline nei bambini grandi?

L. Mambelli, A. Iacono, G. Rametta, F. Marchetti

2020/9 — pag. 231-233 — DOI

In a retrospective study conducted on a population of Japanese children with a weight ≥ 25 kg and with Kawasaki disease, no significant difference has been observed for the onset of coronary aneurysms, intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) resistan...

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Addome acuto: un caso di Schönlein-Henoch

G. D’Onofrio, M. Minute, S. Martelossi

2020/8 — pag. 215-215 — DOI

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Torcicollo resistente

A. Filpo

2020/7 — pag. 191-191 — DOI

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Diarrea ematica nel bambino… pensa alla sindrome emolitico-uremica!

R. Letizia, G. Maiorino, M.E. Di Cicco, G.I. Baroncelli, E. De Marco, D. Peroni

2020/7 — pag. 180-185 — DOI

A healthy 5-year-old boy was brought to the Emergency Department with a 24-hour-history of fever, abdominal pain, bloody diarrhoea and vomiting. Blood tests and ultrasound of the abdomen suggested an acute gastroenteritis. The boy was admitted and in...

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Micobatteriosi atipica con distribuzione simil-sporotricoide: descrizione di un caso clinico

A. Zavallone

2020/26 — pag. 153-155 — DOI

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Anemia falciforme e sindrome toracica acuta

G. Graziani, J. Gencarelli, C. Lama, S. Brocchi, L. Biserna, C. Radice, F. Marchetti

2020/6 — pag. 392-394

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Il deficit di IgA

C. Guiducci, F. Marchetti

2020/6 — pag. 365-369

IgA deficiency (D-IgA) in the paediatric population is often an occasional finding during tests performed for other reasons in children in whom an immunodeficiency disorder is not suspected. D-IgA is the most common primary immunodeficiency with a va...

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Malattia di Kawasaki nei bambini sotto un anno di età: una coorte italiana

G. Mastrangelo, S. Trapani, D. Lasagni, G. Calabri, R. Cimaz, M. Resti, M. de Martino

2020/6 — pag. 142-142 — DOI

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Anemia falciforme e sindrome toracica acuta

G. Graziani, J. Gencarelli, C. Lama, S. Brocchi, L. Biserna, C. Radice, F. Marchetti

2020/6 — pag. 126-129 — DOI

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Legionellosi in Pediatria

L. Impagnatiello, C. Bersanini, M. Spinelli, G.M. Ferrari, A. Biondi, C. Rizzari

2020/5 — pag. 328-330

The article describes the clinical course of a 2-year-old Rumanian girl affected by acute lymphoblastic leukaemia who presented with a severe pneumonia during the initial chemotherapy phase. The main features of the infection caused by the bacterium ...

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Non era una MICI

F. Graziano, R. Ganci, M. Di Pisa, et al.

2020/5 — pag. 319-320

The paper describes a case of colorectal adenocarcinoma (CRC) in a twelwe-year-old girl, at first diagnosed as IBD. CRC represents 1-2% of paediatric cancers. Generally, it occurs after the age of 10 years of life. Symptoms of presentation include ab...

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Indagare cum “granuloma” salis: malattia granulomatosa cronica vs malattia di Crohn

C. Pantuso, M. Citrano, M. Giuffrè, G. Corsello

2020/5 — pag. 315-316

Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is a rare inherited disorder of phagocyte oxidative metabolism that, in addition to infectious complications, is characterized by abnormal inflammatory response leading to the formation of granulomas in multiple ti...

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MALATTIA INFIAMMATORIA CRONICA INTESTINALE E DINTORNI

A. Ventura

2020/5 — pag. 314-314

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Malattia di Kawasaki e coronavirus: lo stato attuale delle cose

A. Taddio, A. Tommasini

2020/5 — pag. 279-282

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Legionellosi in Pediatria

L. Impagnatiello, C. Bersanini, M. Spinelli, G.M. Ferrari, A. Biondi, C. Rizzari

2020/5 — pag. 99-102 — DOI

The article describes the clinical course of a 2-year-old Rumanian girl affected by acute lymphoblastic leukaemia who presented with a severe pneumonia during the initial chemotherapy phase. The main features of the infection caused by the bacterium ...

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Covid-19 e risposta immune

S. Volpi, S. Naviglio, A. Tommasini

2020/4 — pag. 223-231

Covid-19 outbreak is about to reach the peak of infected people in Italy. Huge amount of data is being published on this epidemic in all medical journals, with especial concern on severe cases. Unfortunately, most reports are just descriptive and onl...

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Una polmonite troppo complicata

S. Benvenuto

2020/4 — pag. 255-257

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Mauro e la sua febbre che non se ne va mai

V. Del Volgo

2020/4 — pag. 92-92 — DOI

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Insolita associazione di malattia di Kawasaki e sclerosi tuberosa in un lattante

R. Oliveto

2020/4 — pag. 74-76 — DOI

Kawasaki disease is a vasculitis of multifactorial aetiology. The paper reports and discusses an unusual clinical condition of Kawasaki disease in a five-month-old infant with positive rotavirus co-culture and tuberous sclerosis....

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Covid-19 e bambini: il punto dalla letteratura al 18 marzo

C. Guiducci, F. Marchetti

2020/3 — pag. 151-153

EL Casi indimenticabili
Tubercolosi al ginocchio

A. Caserta

2020/3 — pag. 59-59

EL Casi indimenticabili
Sembrava una Kawasaki, era una panarterite nodosa

J. Trombatore, R. Gallizzi

2020/3 — pag. 58-58

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
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Epatite autoimmune e citopenia

A. Troisi, S. Bertelli, G. Maggiore, R. Burnelli

2020/3 — pag. 63-64

RI Domande e risposte
Naso sempre chiuso, disturbi somatoformi

2020/2 — pag. 131

RI Problemi speciali
Sindromi emorragiche e lupus anticoagulante positivo

L. Facchini, C. Radice, L. Biserna, G. Poletti, F. Marchetti

2020/2 — pag. 97-100

The paper reports the cases of two children who presented with a coagulation alteration with a clinically evident haemorrhagic diathesis. In one case the child presented with cutaneous purpura, in the other case with bleeding of the upper digestive...

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
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Radiografia con reazione periostale: la leucemia in diagnosi differenziale

C. Di Chiara, P. Moras, F. Maschio, M. Minute

2020/2 — pag. 38-38

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Una ipotonia un po’ lassa

E. Battistuz, G. Zanella

2020/2 — pag. 37-37

EL Casi indimenticabili
Una tumefazione testicolare con linfoma

I. Cattapan, I. Tosetto, A. Meneghel, M. Bellettato

2020/2 — pag. 31-32

RI Casi indimenticabili
Una “crisi celiaca” con severa ipogammaglobulinemia reversibile

M. Mainetti, G. Turlà, L. Mambelli, A. Tommasini, F. Marchetti

2020/1 — pag. 52-53

RI Casi indimenticabili
I linfonodi di Ajar

G. Caddeo

2020/1 — pag. 52

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
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Infiammazione cronica e arterite di Takayasu

M. Cernich, L. Baggio, M. Guarnieri

2020/1 — pag. 23-23

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Linfoistiocitosi emofagocitica, tubercolosi e immunodeficienza primitiva

L. Lodi, R. Cupone

2020/1 — pag. 20-20

RI Problemi speciali
La malattia drepanocitica in Pronto Soccorso

M. Casale, S. Perrotta, G. Russo, L. Sainati, R. Colombatti, G.L. Forni

2019/10 — pag. 639-644

Sickle cell disease is the most common genetic disorder observed at emergency units worldwide with more and more children being diagnosed with severe acute events. Emergency caregivers need to be aware of potentially life-threatening complications ...

RI Dermo mail
Dermatite artefatta Granuloma piogenico

2019/10 — pag. 666

RI L'angolo degli specializzandi
SEUna diarrea è ematica

A. Bosco, P. Mantovani

2019/10 — pag. 653-655

RI Rubrica iconografica
Un dolore alla gamba fuori dal comune

M. Staccioni, C. Guadagno, L. Biserna, M.T. Minguzzi, L. Mellini, F. Rambelli, F. Marchetti

2019/10 — pag. 645-647

RI L'esperienza che insegna
Prima la piastrinopenia poi l’embolia polmonare

F. Marchetti, C. Radice, L. Biserna, A.C. Nuzzo, L. Mambelli

2019/10 — pag. 631-633

The paper describes the case of a 17-year-old girl presenting with an initial diagnosis of severe idiopathic thrombocytopoenic purpura with negative ANA and positive Coombs test. After a first phase characterised by thrombocytopeonia with haemorrha...

RI L'esperienza che insegna
Emorragia e trombosi, le due facce del lupus eritematoso sistemico

M. Stinco, T. Giani, I. Maccora, G. Simonini, R. Cimaz

2019/10 — pag. 628-630

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an inflammatory disease with autoimmune pathogenesis and chronic-relapsing course characterised by a wide and heterogeneous spectrum of manifestations and sometimes opposed coexisting clinical features. The paper...

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LA COMPLESSITÀ DEL LUPUS ERITEMATOSO SISTEMICO

A. Taddio

2019/10 — pag. 627

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Anemia emolitica autoimmune in un lattante

C. Avventi, S. Tagliani, D. De Padova, M. Manfredi

2019/10 — pag. 251-251

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Zoppia, citopenia e VES: pensa anche al neuroblastoma

S. Andrade

2019/10 — pag. 250-250

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Un caso di zoppia: l’istiocitosi a cellule di Langerhans

C. Pizza, G. Trippella, I. Maccora, E. Sieni

2019/10 — pag. 249-249

EL Casi indimenticabili
Sindrome di Gardner-Diamond (ovvero la porpora psicogena)

C. Salvottini, M. Casella, G. La Fauci

2019/10 — pag. 242-243

RI Casi indimenticabili
Malati di esami: transferrina vs ferritina

G. Boschi

2019/8 — pag. 531-532

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
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Un peso sullo stomaco… un bel groviglio da sbrogliare!

A. Rizzo, S. Arrigo, P. Gandullia, I. Negro, E. Piccotti, A. Calvi, G. Mattioli, A. Barabino

2019/8 — pag. 210-210

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
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Ematemesi rivelatrice

R. Pillon

2019/8 — pag. 207-207

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
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Calprotectina fecale: a volte basta e avanza

S. Carbogno

2019/7 — pag. 155-155

RI Pagine elettroniche
Una celiachia con invaginazioni intestinali ricorrenti

M. Mainetti, V. Graziani, C. Radice, M. Serafini, G. Turlà, F. Marchetti

2019/6 — pag. 391-392

The paper presents the case of a 22-month-old child with an acute onset of coeliac disease and recurrent intussusception. A prevalence of around 1% of intestinal intussusception in children with a new diagnosis of coeliac disease is described in the ...

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Nevicata di giugno

E. Cacciatore

2019/6 — pag. 389-390

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Un’istiocitosi evanescente

A.M.C. Galimberti

2019/6 — pag. 130-130

EL Casi indimenticabili
Diarrea e sideropenia: in tutto il mondo escludi la... celiachia

I. Del Rizzo, F. Barbieri, M. Robazza, R. Dall’Amico

2019/6 — pag. 129-129

EL Caso contributivo
Una celiachia con invaginazioni intestinali ricorrenti

M. Mainetti, V. Graziani, C. Radice, M. Serafini, G. Turlà, F. Marchetti

2019/6 — pag. 119-122

The paper presents the case of a 22-month-old child with an acute onset of coeliac disease and recurrent intussusception. A prevalence of around 1% of intestinal intussusception in children with a new diagnosis of coeliac disease is described in the ...

RI Pagine elettroniche
Quale linfonodo sei? La malattia di Rosai-Dorfman in un adolescente

C. Radice, G. Marescotti, M. Serafini, G. Turlà, M.T. Minguzzi, F. Soprani, F. Marchetti

2019/5 — pag. 325-327

The paper reports the case of a 13-year-old adolescent presenting with a right-sided submandibular lymph node swelling in absence of any other systemic symptoms. The histological exam documented Rosai-Dorfman disease (RD). The MRI of the head reporte...

RI Casi indimenticabili
Le diverse facce dell'infezione da Bartonella henselae

E. Cacciatore, A. Bulian, R. Burnelli, S. Rinieri, M. Sprocati, G. Maggiore

2019/5 — pag. 322-324

RI Percorsi clinici
Un altro lattante distrofico in Pronto Soccorso

F. Baldo, E. Da Dalt, M.P. Miani

2019/5 — pag. 315-318

The paper discusses the case of a 25-day-old baby presenting with dystrophic appearance and lethargic behaviour. This clinical presentation immediately suggested the suspect of an initial systemic infection. The overall negative laboratory findings...

RI Aggiornamento
Il bambino con i linfonodi ingrossati: una messa a punto attraverso i casi

E. Benelli, C. Zanatta, G. Muffato, V. Biscaro, M. Cacciatore, P. Grotto

2019/5 — pag. 289-296

Lymphadenitis is a common finding in Paediatrics. However, it could be a sign of many different diseases, varying from banal viral infections to severe neoplastic disease or immunodeficiency. Some clinical aspects can be useful to differentiate the...

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Un caso di immunodeficienza comune variabile che mima una sarcoidosi in un bambino di 9 anni

I. Maccora, E. Marrani, T. Giani, R. Cimaz, G. Simonini, C. Azzari

2019/5 — pag. 117-117

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Accesso libero
Idrotorace e sindrome di Noonan

M. Napolitano, L. Balestriere, B. Orsini, V. Roseto, G. Montesano, F.M. Toro, A. Manna, A. Faiella, C. Barone, F. Corvino, A. Allegorico

2019/5 — pag. 115-116

EL Casi indimenticabili
Polipo e invaginazione intestinale

G. Lanzoni, P. Moras, D. Gobbi, P. Midrio

2019/5 — pag. 113-113

EL Caso contributivo
Quale linfonodo sei? La malattia di Rosai-Dorfman in un adolescente

C. Radice, G. Marescotti, M. Serafini, G. Turlà, M.T. Minguzzi, F. Soprani, F. Marchetti

2019/5 — pag. 97-101

The paper reports the case of a 13-year-old adolescent presenting with a right-sided submandibular lymph node swelling in absence of any other systemic symptoms. The histological exam documented Rosai-Dorfman disease (RD). The MRI of the head reporte...

RI Neonatologia
Il neonato a colori: bianco

G. Corsello, M. Schierz

2019/4 — pag. 253-254

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Troppo stanca troppo presto: la leucemia mielomonocitica giovanile

S. Contorno

2019/4 — pag. 95-95

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Una linfadenite da vaccino… la BCG-ite

G. Facchina

2019/4 — pag. 94-94

RI Problemi speciali
Manifestazioni dell’infezione da virus di Epstein-Barr nel paziente con immunodeficit

F. Zunica, F. Saettini, A. Biondi, R. Badolato

2019/3 — pag. 163-169

Recurrent respiratory infections are frequent in healthy children. The association with peculiar signs and symptoms such as splenomegaly, lymphopenia, and hypogammaglobulinemia should induce suspicion of primary immunodeficiency (PID). The describe...

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Le molte facce della istiocitosi a cellule di Langerhans

L. Picciano, R. Mancusi, M.C. Fedele, F. Palladino

2019/3 — pag. 52-52

RI Pagine elettroniche
La musica è un arcobaleno: effetti della musicoterapia nei bambini con emofilia

E. Zanon, S. Pasca, L. Salmaso, E. Macellari

2019/2 — pag. 127-128

Introduction - Music and colours are the universal languages that reach diverse peoples and can evoke different emotions. Music therapy was used in several hospital settings, but no studies were conducted on children with haemophilia. The aim of this...

RI L'angolo degli specializzandi
Puntura lombare: una questione di posizione

S. Della Paolera, A. Galimberti

2019/2 — pag. 117-118

EL Ricerca
La musica è un arcobaleno: effetti della musicoterapia nei bambini con emofilia

E. Zanon, S. Pasca, L. Salmaso, E. Macellari

2019/2 — pag. 18-23

Introduction - Music and colours are the universal languages that reach diverse peoples and can evoke different emotions. Music therapy was used in several hospital settings, but no studies were conducted on children with haemophilia. The aim of this...

RI Editoriali
Quanto fanno male i “raggi”?

M. Fontana

2019/1 — pag. 6-8

EL Casi indimenticabili
Bartonella sine Bartonella

A. Barachino

2019/1 — pag. 13-13

RI Dermo mail
Papule piezogeniche Granulomi anulari multipli

2018/9 — pag. 598

RI L'angolo degli specializzandi
Reazioni avverse al veleno di imenotteri a 360°

M. Giovannini

2018/9 — pag. 589-591

RI Il graffio
Accesso libero
Giuseppe

2018/9 — pag. 557

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Un linfonodo atipico

S. Andrade

2018/9

EL Caso contributivo
Febbre da 8 settimane e linfoadenopatia… poi un’escissione miracolosa

M. Messalli

2018/9

The article presents the case of a 12-year-old boy admitted to the Paediatric Infectious Diseases Unit for prolonged fever and cervical lymphadenopathy. The several laboratory and instrumental investigations performed to rule out infectious, oncologi...

RI L'esperienza che insegna
Orticaria emorragica: eppur si muove

S. Della Paolera, M.C. Pellegrin, I. Berti, E. Barbi

2018/7 — pag. 441-444

Acute urticaria is a frequent benign disease in children and is often secondary to infections. Usually it is a self-limited histamine-dependent cutaneous condition marked by transient, erythematous, and pruritic wheals and frequently by acral angio...

RI Problemi speciali
Leucociti: più alti che bassi

D.U. De Rose, R. Badolato

2018/7 — pag. 435-439

Leukocytosis is a common finding in children evaluation. In order to highlight the underlying cause, it is necessary to investigate which leukocyte subset is involved. Usually, leukocytosis is observed in children with infectious diseases. However,...

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Il binomio rivelatore: neutropenia e reticolo venoso marcato

G. Zanella

2018/7

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Storia di una malformazione artero-venosa che incontra un Leiden

S. Bertelli, A. Iacono

2018/7

RI Percorsi clinici
Due casi di favismo: dalla diagnosi alla gestione

C. Guiducci, A. Fumarola, S. Pusceddu, C. Radice, F. Marchetti

2018/6 — pag. 379-383

Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (G6PD) is the most common red blood cells enzymopathy that affects 400 million people worldwide and is especially prevalent in areas of high malaria infection. G6PD deficiency has an X-linked recessive m...

RI Problemi speciali
La sindrome di Pearson

P. Farruggia, F. Di Marco, C. Dufour

2018/6 — pag. 371-377

Pearson syndrome is a sporadic and very rare progressive generalised disorder with heterogeneity in clinical expression classically associated with single large-scale deletions of mitochondrial DNA: it is characterised by refractory sideroblastic a...

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Cerchi una celiachia, trovi... una leucemia

S. Molinari

2018/6

EL Casi indimenticabili
Sbarchi

A. Filpo

2018/6

EL Caso contributivo
Un’emolisi ben mascherata

G. Del Borrello

2018/6

Chronic haemolytic anaemia is a pathophysiological process that can be the expression of many possible etiologies (e.g. a congenital defect of a membrane protein, immune-mediated destruction, enzymopathies, altered erythrocyte development). The paper...

RI Pagine elettroniche
Morbo di Crohn: 3 casi per 3 sottolineature

P. Pascolo, M. Bramuzzo, A. Ventura

2018/5 — pag. 331-334

Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease diagnosed in paediatric age, especially during adolescence, in approximately one third of the cases. Pathogenesis is unknown but growing evidence suggests that immunological anomalies due to monoge...

EL Caso contributivo
Febbre persistente, dolore toracico e arterite di Takayasu

B. Filippini, B. Bigucci, F. Mascella, M. Gattorno, G. Vergine

2018/5

Takayasu’s arteritis (TA) is an extremely rare vasculitis that presents in paediatric age that typically affects adolescents. Clinical manifestations of TA are polymorph and in the fists stage of the disease systemic aspecific symptoms such as fever,...

EL Casi indimenticabili
Una reazione periostale... niente ben

C. Di Chiara, P. Moras, F. Maschio, M. Minute

2018/5

EL Caso contributivo
Morbo di Crohn: 3 casi per 3 sottolineature

P. Pascolo, M. Bramuzzo, A. Ventura

2018/5

Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease diagnosed in paediatric age, especially during adolescence, in approximately one third of the cases. Pathogenesis is unknown but growing evidence suggests that immunological anomalies due to monogenic ...

RI L'esperienza che insegna
Reumatologia attraverso i casi

A. Taddio

2018/4 — pag. 243-245

The paper presents some practical messages for paediatricians that may be taken from the five rheumatological cases herein. Kawasaki disease may recur in the same patient, so in this case re-treatment with intravenous gammaglobulin is mandatory. Di...

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Accesso libero
Due possibili varianti della malattia di Kawasaki: defervescente e indolente

E. Dei Rossi

2018/4

RI Editoriali
Trattare la malattia come un’opportunità

G. Masera

2018/3 — pag. 143-145

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Febbre e petecchie… anche il morbillo!

E. Dei Rossi

2018/3

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C’era una volta il morbillo...

C. Mucaria

2018/3

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Una anemia congenita macrocitica refrattaria: pensa all’anemia di Blackfan-Diamond

S. Andrade

2018/3

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Anemia megaloblastica e acidemia metilmalonica

V. Moressa, G. Zanella, G. Gortani

2018/3

RI Casi indimenticabili
Un'anemia macrocitica in una ragazza di 13 anni

M.C. Pellegrin, A. Delise

2018/2 — pag. 115-117

RI Percorsi clinici
Piastrinopenia immunomediata in età adolescenziale ed evoluzione in lupus eritematoso sistemico

G. Costagliola, R. Consolini

2018/2 — pag. 97-100

Thrombocytopenia, defined by a platelet count lower than 100,000 mm3, in children and adolescents is more frequently ascribable to an immune pathogenesis (Immune Thrombocytopenia, or ITP). ITP is defined “persistent” if it is still present after th...

RI Il graffio
Le larghe spalle della pediatria

2018/2 — pag. 81

EL Casi indimenticabili
Epatite autoimmune e anemia aplastica

M. Pavan

2018/2

EL Caso contributivo
Anticorpi anti-istone: è sempre lupus indotto da farmaci?

A. Azzali, T. Giani, G. Simonini, R. Cimaz

2018/2

The paper describes the case of a South-American 14-year-old girl who presented with arthralgia, weakness and alopecia. As she was under antiepileptic treatment since she was 5 years of age, on suspicion of drug-induced lupus erythematosus (DILE) ant...

RI Casi indimenticabili
Bartonelle di tutto il mondo, unitevi!

S. Dal Bo, L. Mambelli, A. Fumarola, P. Ricciardelli, A. Zucchini, F. Marchetti

2017/10 — pag. 663-664

RI Aggiornamento
La gestione condivisa ospedale-territorio del bambino con malattia drepanocitica

P. Samperi, R. Colombatti, E. Cannata, L. Sainati, G. Russo

2017/10 — pag. 629-635

Sickle cell disease is a hereditary autosomal disease of haemoglobin characterized by chronic haemolytic anaemia, vaso-occlusive painful crisis, organ damage and increased susceptibility to infections. In recent years, the number of patients with s...

EL Casi indimenticabili
Un blu che non ritorna: cosa c’entra l’emoglobina Cincinnati?

M. Magnani, V. Silecchia, L. Marchetto, C. Vallongo, C. Gentilomo

2017/10

RI Domande e risposte
Vaccinazioni e immunodeficitBruxismo notturno

2017/9 — pag. 597

RI Rubrica iconografica
Una ragazza con ascite e diarrea con sangue: quale diagnosi?

F. Marchetti, M. Mainetti, M. Giovannini, C. Morelli

2017/8 — pag. 519-522

EL Casi indimenticabili
Due storie di malaria: c’è sempre da imparare

M.T. Bartolini, C. Ghizzi

2017/8

RI Pagine elettroniche
Due zoppie per due diagnosi

F. Corrias

2017/7 — pag. 465-466

RI Pagine elettroniche
L’anemia che fa male

A. Bonadies, G. Rispoli

2017/7 — pag. 465-466

RI Aggiornamento
La leucemia ridotta all’osso: fatti e misfatti

A.G. Grasso, C. Radice, F. Corrias, F. Verzegnassi, F. Marchetti

2017/7 — pag. 428-434

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL) is the most common cancer disease in paediatric age. Even though in the last decade there has been a steady improve of the chances of survival from this disease, it is relatively uncommon in the life of a general...

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
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L’anemia che fa male

A. Bonadies, G. Rispoli

2017/7

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
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Due zoppie per due diagnosi

F. Corrias

2017/7

RI Aggiornamento
Il linfoma di Hodgkin: evoluzione del trattamento dall’osservazione dei guariti

R. Burnelli, M. Mascarin

2017/6 — pag. 355-364

Children and adolescents affected by Hodgkin’s lymphoma (HL) show a high survival rate. More than any other patient population treated for other types of cancer, the longterm survivors from HL were the subject of studies on medium- and long-term si...

RI Problemi speciali
Scorbuto 2017 attraverso i casi

E. Conversano, R. Bergamaschi, G. Ingrasciotta, A. Martoni, S. Monti, M. Cattalini

2017/6 — pag. 365-370

Scurvy is an uncommon presentation of vitamin deficiency that in our century is becoming more and more common, especially in patients with cognitive disorder. Being an uncommon disease, diagnosis is often delayed and can lead to unnecessary complex...

EL Casi indimenticabili
Linfoma di Hodgkin in sindrome nefrosica

M. Pennesi

2017/6

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
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Ipereosinofilia severa: un caso da non dimenticare

E. Santi

2017/6

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
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Un linfonodo “sospetto”

I. Rochira, P. Dal Canton

2017/6

RI Pagine elettroniche
Dimmi cosa mangi... e ti dirò cos’hai

T. Bonasia, V. Murri

2017/5 — pag. 323-324

RI Pediatria flash
Sindrome da delezione 22q11.2, ovvero la sindrome di DiGeorge con molte sfumature

A. Galimberti

2017/5 — pag. 326-327

RI Problemi speciali
Picacismo e carenza di ferro: una relazione problematica

S. Zanella, C. Borgna-Pignatti

2017/5 — pag. 291-294

Pica is the compulsive eating of non-nutritive substances and is often associated with iron deficiency but its pathophysiology is unknown. The paper is a review of the literature based on the search of online databases that was carried out using th...

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Dimmi cosa mangi… e ti dirò cos’hai

T. Bonasia, V. Murri

2017/5

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
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Mi fa male la schiena

S. Amoroso

2017/5

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Storia di nei che parlavano di intestino

I. Festa, R. Caiazzo, S. Napodano, C. Coppola, L. Sessa, E. De Nitto, P. Marzuillo, C. Strisciuglio, L. Perrone

2017/5

RI Dermo mail
Xantogranuloma giovanile Onicomadesi

2017/4 — pag. 262

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Dolore addominale, iperplasia nodulare linfoide e… EBV

G. Papucci, V. Ragnoni

2017/4

RI Casi indimenticabili
Qualcosa di più di un "asma"

A. Iacono, P. Gallo, L. Pecorari

2017/3 — pag. 191-193

RI Casi indimenticabili
Malattia di Kawasaki: sì, assolutamente tutto e subito

A. Taddio

2017/3 — pag. 191-193

RI Casi indimenticabili
Sembrava una Kawasaki “atipica”... invece era un morbillo

P. Gallo, C. Radice, L. Mambelli, F. Currò, C. Lama, F. Marchetti

2017/3 — pag. 191-193

RI Pediatria flash
Iperlassità legamentosa e bambini

V. Carrato, G. Ferrara

2017/3 — pag. 182-184

RI Aggiornamento
Kawasaki facile e difficile

E. Benelli, S. Carbogno, N.S. Carucci, M. Gori, E. Marrani, M. Melis, M.C. Pellegrin

2017/3 — pag. 155-162

Kawasaki disease (KD) is a systemic vasculitis that typically affects children of 2-5 years of age and whose diagnosis and treatment are usually easy, as described in the first case report. Anyway, in spite of adequate therapy, 10-15% of patients d...

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Febbre, cheilite, rash cutaneo, congiuntivite… non è sempre Kawasaki!

M. Diplomatico, R. Marotta
, O. Ametrano, R. Picciocchi

2017/3

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
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Epstein-Barr virus e malattia di Kawasaki: chi causa chi?

V. Di Ruscio, A. Arduini



2017/3

EL Casi indimenticabili
Meningite asettica e malattia di Kawasaki

N. Cresta, L. Boscardini, A. Guala

2017/3

EL Caso contributivo
Kawasaki disease shock syndrome: una rara modalità di presentazione della malattia

N. Sardi, C. Galletto, L. Besenzon

2017/3

Kawasaki disease shock syndrome is a rare and severe condition related to Kawasaki disease (KD), frequently difficult to diagnose, defined as the presence of any of the following conditions: systolic hypotension (< -2 SD blood pressure defined for ag...

RI Casi indimenticabili
Sarcoidosi pediatrica: esiste davvero?

M. Giovannini, M. Luzzati, G. Ferrara, T. Giani, G. Simonini, R. Cimaz

2017/2 — pag. 119-122

RI Aggiornamento
Le neutropenie del neonato

P. Farruggia

2017/2 — pag. 85-90

Neonatal neutropoenia is not infrequent. Its appearance can be linked to many serious or minor causes and it is necessary to provide an accurate overview in order to make the best decisions on its management. This paper takes into consideration som...

EL Casi indimenticabili
Leucemia per caso

P. Paganin

2017/2

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Test del sudore patologico: è sempre fibrosi cistica?

S. Viscovo, A. Casale, P. Stellato, F. De Gregorio, R. Auricchio, V. Raia

2017/2

RI Casi indimenticabili
Dolore organico o funzionale?

V. Carrato, B. Sacher

2017/1 — pag. 54-56

RI Percorsi clinici
La diagnosi differenziale delle malattie che si presentano con IgE alte

G. Patelli, S. Farimbella, M. Cortesi, R. Badolato

2017/1 — pag. 39-43

Elevated IgE levels (higher than 1500 UI) can be detected in multiple conditions observed in childhood, including atopic dermatitis, infectious diseases or primary immunodeficiencies. This article describes the case of a child who in the first year...

RI Pagine elettroniche
Emorragia splenica post-traumatica in un adolescente: il ruolo della angio-embolizzazione

P. Gallo, C. Radice, M. Mainetti, C. Renzelli, D. Palmarini, F. Marchetti

2016/10 — pag. 665-666

The paper describes the case of a 13-year-old boy who arrived to the emergency room for 2 syncopal episodes associated with abdominal pain. Blood tests showed Hb 10.5 g/dl with normal MCV. His general medical conditions were regular except for a ...

RI Casi indimenticabili
Due bambini senza ferro

C. Landini, A. Campanile, R. Francavilla, P. Alvisi

2016/10 — pag. 660

RI Percorsi clinici
L’EBV che non mi aspetto: MASe ci penso...!

A. Di Mascio, C. Redice, S. Pusceddu, V. Camelli, F. Marchetti

2016/10 — pag. 637-640

The paper reports the case of a 14-year-old boy who presented to our attention because for three days he had fever, laterocervical lymphadenopathy with limited movements of the neck and cytopoenia. The clinical diagnostic process led to the diagnos...

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Una porpora (per nulla) spaventosa

S. Carbogno

2016/10

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
MAS in WAS? (una Wiskott-Aldrich non convenzionale)

S. Amoroso

2016/10

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Un’anemia da perderci il fiato

E. Dei Rossi

2016/10

EL Caso contributivo
Emorragia splenica post-traumatica in un adolescente: il ruolo della angio-embolizzazione

P. Gallo, C. Radice, M. Mainetti, C. Renzelli, D. Palmarini, F. Marchetti

2016/10

RI Domande e risposte
Maltrattamento sospetto Esofagite eosinofila e dieta

2016/9 — pag. 605

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Un bimbo che cresce poco: pensa alla sindrome di Shwachman-Diamond

M. Luzzati

2016/9

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Accesso libero
Una Kawasaki troppo resistente!

N.S. Carucci

2016/9

RI Editoriali
Accesso libero
Profilassi del sanguinamento da deficit di vitamina K: finalmente la luce?

G. Maggiore, S. Demarini

2016/8 — pag. 483-485

RI Pagine elettroniche
Accesso libero
Nuove evidenze sulla profilassi neonatale con vitamina K

C. Lama, S. Pusceddu, P. Gallo, F. Marchetti

2016/8 — pag. 531-533

RI Casi indimenticabili
Il gene del G6PD, le varianti cliniche e... la minestrina della nonna

M.L. Tortorella, F. Colonna, L. Fanti

2016/8 — pag. 526-528

EL Casi indimenticabili
Malattia di Kawasaki: la grande simulatrice

C. Bibalo

2016/8

RI Percorsi clinici
La medicina “magica” che ti rimette in piedi

G.I. Baroncelli, G. Laccetta, A. Giannoni, F. Massei

2016/7 — pag. 445-448

Prolonged and exclusive breastfeeding without vitamin D supplements is a main determinant of vitamin D deficiency rickets in children of immigrants living in Italy. Dark skin may be an adjunctive factor for the development of rickets. Early signs a...

RI Pagine elettroniche
Può l'amoxicillina aumentare il rischio di rash nei casi di mononucleosi?

S. Pusceddu, V. Murgia, F. Marchetti

2016/6 — pag. 393-394

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Esordio di lupus eritematoso sistemico con sindrome da attivazione macrofagica, nefrite lupica e microangiopatia trombotica

G. Prunotto, V. Decimi, M.L. Melzi, M.A. Pelagatti, F. Ferrario, A. Biondi

2016/6

RI Pagine elettroniche
I love (doctor) shopping…

F. Belcari, S. Agostiniani, G. Rossi, M.C. Caparello, R. Consolini

2016/5 — pag. 323-324

A thirteen-year-old boy presented with recurrent fever for two years and was checked up in several hospitals with the only outcome of hypogammaglobulinemia. He could not go to school for 90 days. He underwent clinical examination and lab tests th...

RI L'angolo degli specializzandi
Piastrinopenia autoimmune

M. Saruggia, B. Longhi, M. Colombo

2016/5 — pag. 319-321

RI Casi indimenticabili
Quando le piastrine basse possono... attendere

E. Mazzoni, F. Lombardi, C. Fochi, A. Lambertini

2016/5 — pag. 316-318

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Malaria: un sospetto da non dimenticare anche in Italia

E. Altieri, R. Calzedda, M.E. Donadio, C. Tortone, S. Garazzino, P. Tovo

2016/5

EL Casi indimenticabili
Nascere con una severa piastrinopenia

L. Mambelli, C. Muratori, G. Piccinini, S. Dal Bo, F. Marchetti

2016/5

EL Caso contributivo
I love (doctor) shopping…

F. Belcari, S. Agostiniani, G. Rossi, M.C. Caparello, R. Consolini

2016/5

A thirteen-year-old boy presented with recurrent fever for two years and was checked up in several hospitals with the only outcome of hypogammaglobulinemia. He could not go to school for 90 days. He underwent clinical examination and lab tests that s...

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Fetal alcohol syndrome sì, fetal alcohol syndrome no, fetal alcohol syndrome un cavolo!

L. Longoni, S. Maitz, A. Cereda, M. Mariani, F. Crosti, A. Selicorni

2016/4

RI Casi indimenticabili
Uno più uno fa sempre due:una storia di bartonellosi viscerale

A. D’Adda, G. Ferrari, M.L. Melzi, G. Bovo, S. Foresti, A. Cavallero, R. Corso, A. Ciervo, F. Mancini, A. Biondi

2016/4 — pag. 255-258

RI Casi indimenticabili
Batti 5: ho lo shock settico

A. Pirrone

2016/4 — pag. 255-258

RI Percorsi clinici
Quando una vitamina fa la differenza...!

P. Gallo, A. Lambertini, C. Landini, E. Mazzoni, F. Marchetti

2016/4 — pag. 231-236

Vitamin B12 deficiency, a rare condition in the paediatric population, can lead to serious haematological consequences and alterations in the neurocognitive development if not promptly recognized and treated. The paper reports the cases of two infa...

EL Casi indimenticabili
Una tonsilla che ricresce

C. Retetangos

2016/4

RI Casi indimenticabili
Celiachia e amilasi: c'è o ci fa?

A. Filpo

2016/3 — pag. 188-190

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Accesso libero
Narici NARES

S. Lega

2016/3

RI Casi indimenticabili
Una frattura vertebrale che nasconde un quadro... multifocale

L. Mambelli, A. Magistà, P. Cenni, F. Marchetti

2016/2 — pag. 120-122

EL Casi indimenticabili
Davide o Golia?

R. Romani

2016/2

EL Casi indimenticabili
Una scarlattina con troppo prurito

M.L. Tortorella

2016/2

RI Pagine elettroniche
Malattia di Graves e iperplasia timica: quale relazione?

V. Graziani, A. Zucchini, F. Marchetti

2016/1 — pag. 55-57

The case of a 10-year-old girl with clinical hypothyroidism in substitution treatment is described. After the onset of symptoms suggestive of mediastinal mass associated with evolution in hyperthyroidism, she was diagnosed with thymic hyperplasia ...

RI Il graffio
Accesso libero
Shammo Khairy Sado

2016/1 — pag. 12

EL Caso contributivo
Malattia di Graves e iperplasia timica: quale relazione?

V. Graziani, A. Zucchini, F. Marchetti

2016/1

The case of a 10-year-old girl with clinical hypothyroid-ism in substitution treatment is described. After the on-set of symptoms suggestive of mediastinal mass associ-ated with evolution in hyperthyroidism, she was diag-nosed with thymic hyperplasia...

RI Problemi speciali
Il bambino con infezione da micobatteri non tubercolari

M. Caironi, R. Badolato

2015/10 — pag. 634-638

Localized mycobacterial infections of cervical lymph nodes are frequently observed in normal children. These types of infections are sustained by environmental mycobacteria and can be treated by surgical therapy. On the contrary, disseminated mycob...

EL Casi indimenticabili
Detective in corsia

M. Minute, L. De Marco

2015/10

RI L'angolo degli specializzandi
Anemia ferrocarenziale

2015/9 — pag. 589-590

RI ABC
L’epistassi nel bambino

S. Lega, G. Ferrara

2015/9 — pag. 585-588

Epistaxis is very common in children and usually originates from small anastomotic vessels in the anterior septum as a consequence of local trauma. In most cases bleeding is self-limiting and can be easily managed with direct compression of the nas...

EL Casi indimenticabili
Un caso di ipertransaminasemia più unico che raro

G. Maggiore, G. Rossi, S. Baldini

2015/9

RI L'esperienza che insegna
Anemia sideropenica nel III millennio“Nuovi” parametri di monitoraggio della risposta terapeutica

E. Parodi, M.L. Aurucci, B. Stella, G. Russo, U. Ramenghi

2015/8 — pag. 515-519

Iron deficiency and iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) secondary to inadequate dietary iron intake are still in the third millennium the most common nutritional disorder and the most common haematological diseases of infancy and childhood. The article d...

EL Caso contributivo
Sindrome da encefalopatia posteriore reversibile. Neurotossicità da ciclosporina

M.V. Abate, A. Proia, A. Locasciulli, A. Ventura

2015/8

Reversible posterior encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a clinic-radiologic syndrome characterized by headache, altered mental status, visual and motor symptoms and radiological lesions documented on brain MRI. PRES is characterized by a complete reve...

RI Pagine elettroniche
Infezioni respiratorie severe e immunodeficienze primitive: un raro caso clinico

F. De Maddi, F. Antonelli, R. Sottile, M. Iafusco

2015/7 — pag. 465-467

The hyper-immunoglobulin M syndrome is a rare genetic disorder characterized by elevated serum IgM levels and low to undetectable levels of serum IgG, IgA. These patients characteristically present with recurrent pulmonary infections and recurrent di...

RI Focus
Cosa deve sapere il pediatra della linfoistiocitosi emofagocitica attraverso i casi degli specializzandi

S. Lega, F. Dell’Acqua, M. Minute, F. Vendemini, C. Cattelani

2015/7 — pag. 431-441

Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a potentially life-threatening syndrome caused by severe hypercytokinemia due to a highly stimulated but ineffective immune response. HLH is not a disease by its own but is rather a common final consequen...

RI Focus
Una febbre alta e persistente con epatosplenomegalia e citopenia

L. de Seta, M.S. Sabatino, F. de Seta, P. Siani

2015/7 — pag. 431-441

The case described is that of an 11-year-old child presenting with high fever, pharyngotonsillar exudate, submandibular strangles and hepatosplenomegaly. The elevated number of VCA IgM antibodies led to a diagnosis of infectious mononucleosis. The ...

RI Focus
LA LINFOISTIOCITOSI EMOFAGOCITICA

2015/7 — pag. 431-441

EL Casi indimenticabili
Accesso libero
La sindrome di Evans: chi è costei?

F. Pugliese, A. Zucchini, R. Burnelli, F. Marchetti

2015/7

EL Casi indimenticabili
Un colpo d’occhio… siculo

M.C. Lia, I. Giuseppin, A. Tonetto, P.G. Flora

2015/7

EL Caso contributivo
Infezioni respiratorie severe e immunodeficienze primitive: un raro caso clinico

F. De Maddi, F. Antonelli, R. Sottile, M. Iafusco

2015/7

The hyper-immunoglobulin M syndrome is a rare genetic disorder characterized by elevated serum IgM levels and low to undetectable levels of serum IgG, IgA. These patients characteristically present with recurrent pulmonary infections and recurrent di...

RI Pagine elettroniche
Quando la sferocitosi incontra il chirurgo

C. Bibalo

2015/6 — pag. 391-392

Summary Hereditary spherocytosis is a common inherited disorder that is characterized by anaemia, jaundice and splenomegaly. It is reported worldwide and is the most common inherited anaemia in individuals of northern European ancestry. Clinical ...

RI L'esperienza che insegna
La linfadenite di Kikuchi-Fujimoto

V. Graziani, V. Armaroli, L. Cardinale, F. Ravaioli, F. Marchetti

2015/6 — pag. 382-385

Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KF), also known as histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis, is a rare benign condition characterized by cervical lymphadenopathy, prolonged fever and other systemic manifestations without specific laboratory findings. The et...

EL Caso contributivo
Quando la sferocitosi incontra il chirurgo

C. Bibalo

2015/6

Summary Hereditary spherocytosis is a common inherited disorder that is characterized by anaemia, jaundice and splenomegaly. It is reported worldwide and is the most common inherited anaemia in individuals of northern European ancestry. Clinical ...

RI Problemi correnti
La carenza di ferro nel neonato pretermine

V. Guastalla, M.C. Pellegrin, F. Rovere, R. Davanzo

2015/5 — pag. 298-305

Iron deficiency is the most common micronutrient deficiency worldwide. Preterm infants are a special risk group, because of lower total body iron at birth, rapid catch-up growth and uncompensated phlebotomy losses. Recent scientific literature sugg...

EL Casi indimenticabili
Dolore e colore

L. Casali, S. Di Caro

2015/5

RI Percorsi clinici
Anemia sideropenica: a ragionarci sopra è sempre facile

F. Marchetti, M. Mainetti, L. Mambelli, F. Italiano, V. Domenichelli, S. Federici

2015/4 — pag. 247-251

The paper describes the case of a 14-year-old girl who presented with relapsing chronic anaemia without initial evidence of gastrointestinal bleeding after performing EGDS, colonoscopy, scintigraphy with technetium and marked red blood cell, and en...

RI Problemi speciali
La linfopenia nel bambino

C. Dallavilla, R. Badolato

2015/4 — pag. 239-246

Isolated lymphopoenia is a common finding in children evaluation. Usually, lymphopoenia is observed in children with infectious or autoimmune diseases, with nutritional disorders or under treatment with immunosuppressive drugs. However, persistence...

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Complicanza tardiva di anastomosi ileocolica

S. Nider, G. Gortani

2015/4

EL Casi indimenticabili
L'emorragia cerebrale che non ti aspetti

M.C. Lia, P.G. Flora

2015/4

RI Domande e risposte
Angioedema ricorrenteDifetto interventricolare

2015/3 — pag. 198

RI Casi indimenticabili
Aisha: e se la PFAPA non si ferma alle tonsille?

E. Panontin

2015/3 — pag. 189-192

RI Casi indimenticabili
Ulcera genitale e... PFAPA?!? (ovvero attenzione all'anamnesi!)

A. Paglino, D. Laino

2015/3 — pag. 189-192

EL Casi indimenticabili
Accesso libero
Rene e porpora di Henoch–Schönlein: non tutte le nefriti sono benigne

F. Pugliese, F. Marchetti, A. Pasini, G. Montini

2015/3

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Sindrome da Iper-IgD (HIDS): descrizione di un caso clinico

C. Granato, M.F. Gicchino, G. Cantelmi, A. Mauro, A.N. Olivieri

2015/3

EL Casi indimenticabili
Una cosa può essere rara… ma esiste!

G. La Fauci, L. Marangio, E. Valletta

2015/2

EL Casi indimenticabili
Le macchie di Giorgia

D. Viggiano

2015/2

RI Pagine elettroniche
Ha ancora un ruolo l’uso dell’aspirina nella malattia di Kawasaki e, se sì, a quale dosaggio?

F. Marchetti, L. Mambelli, S. Pusceddu

2014/10 — pag. 667-668

RI Rubrica iconografica
Wandering spleen in età pediatrica

L. Radillo, M. Maschio, A. Taddio, S. Furlan, E. Barbi

2014/10 — pag. 659-662

RI L'esperienza che insegna
Pleurite tubercolare: una diagnosi non sempre immediata

S. Nider, G. Gortani, A. Ventura

2014/10 — pag. 642-646

Tuberculous pleuritis usually presents as an acute illness with fever, cough and pleuritic chest pain. The pleural fluid is an exudate that usually shows predominant lymphocytes. Pleural fluid cultures are positive for Mycobacterium tuberculosis in...

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Score predittivo di malattia di Kawasaki refrattaria: dati della Clinica Pediatrica di Palermo

M.C. Maggio, E. Prinzi, G. Corsello

2014/10

EL Caso contributivo
Blueberry Muffin Baby: da una strana sindrome alla diagnosi di Istiocitosi a cellule di Langerhans congenita autolimitante

J. Demurtas, C. Domenici, G. Gelato, L. Luti, C. Mazzatenta, M. Nardi, C. Favre

2014/10

LCH can show with skin involvement, usually with a papulo-vesicular or pseudo-nodular eruption. The paper reports the case of a newborn child who three minutes after birth deve-loped a blueberry muffin baby syndrome, with ecchymotic and blue violet n...

EL Caso contributivo
Linfoistiocitosi emofagocitica: una complicanza che non ti aspetti

A. Grigoli, P. Farruggia, G. Bruno, S. Cannella, D. Caselli, P. D’Angelo, D. Russo, A. Trizzino, S. Tropia, O Ziino, M. Aricò

2014/10

Haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a clinical syndrome caused by hypersecretion of cytokines secondary to temporary or persistent failure of the immune system. The sporadic form usually occurs in the first months of life as a result of an i...

EL Appunti di Terapia
Accesso libero
Ha ancora un ruolo l’uso dell’aspirina nella malattia di Kawasaki e, se sì, a quale dosaggio?

F. Marchetti, L. Mambelli, S. Pusceddu

2014/10

RI Problemi speciali
Il timo ectopico nella diagnosi differenziale delle masse del collo

M.C. Pellegrin, G. Patti, E. Faleschini, G. Tornese, P. Guastalla, A. Ventura

2014/9 — pag. 579-584

Ectopic thymus is a rare benign cause of paediatric neck masses. Because of embryologic migrational defects, ectopic thymic remnants can be found along the descent pathway from the mandible angle to the superior mediastinum. Clinically, between 2 ...

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Alloimmunizzazione post-trasfusionale: terapia immunosoppressiva con rituximab e steroidi in una bambina affetta da drepanocitosi

E. Brivio, A. Cattoni, M. Pasetti

2014/9

EL Casi indimenticabili
Una istiocitosi piuttosto rara

E. Coccolini, F. di Dio, G. Palazzi, M. Cellini, C. Garcinuno, P. Paolucci, L. Iughetti

2014/7

RI Linee guida
Aplasie midollari acquisite in età pediatrica: raccomandazioni diagnostico-terapeutiche

Gruppo di Lavoro “Insufficienze Midollari” dell’AIEOP

2014/6 — pag. 383-389

Acquired Aplastic Anaemia (AA) is a rare heterogeneous disease characterized by pancytopoenia and hypoplastic bone marrow. The incidence is 2-3 millions per year (all age groups) in Europe, but is higher in East Asia. The pathogenesis of AA is comp...

EL Casi indimenticabili
La mia Africa

M. Bellettato

2014/5

EL Pediatria per immagini
Una strana puntura d’insetto

E. Fabbri, G. Vergine, R. Pericoli, B. Filippini, M.E. Guerzoni, V. Vecchi, G. Ancora

2014/5

Ecthyma gangrenosum is a well known cutaneous manifestation associated with Pseudomonas infection. It rarely occurs in healthy children, so that, when present, may be the first sign of an underlying immunodeficiency or of a lympho-proliferative disea...

RI Pagine elettroniche
Un bambino assopito con sindrome nefrosica

M. Marsciani, A. Biasini

2014/4 — pag. 257-259

Idiopathic nephrotic syndrome is a disease characterized by proteinuria over 40 mg/m2/hr, hypoalbuminemia, edema and hyperlipemia. Its incidence is 2-3 cases per 100,000 children per year. The response to steroid therapy is expected in 90% of childre...

RI Casi indimenticabili
Tumefazioni ombelicali o quasi

C. Pierobon, A. Bon, R. Lualdi, L. Fasoli

2014/4 — pag. 255-256

EL Casi indimenticabili
Dalla Cina con furore

E. Mazzoni, A. Lambertini

2014/4

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Tanto volume per nulla…

E. Alberti, C. Domenici, F. Massei, M. Nardi, C. Favre, R. Domenici

2014/4

EL Caso contributivo
Un bambino assopito con sindrome nefrosica

M. Marsciani, A. Biasini

2014/4

Idiopathic nephrotic syndrome is a disease characterized by proteinuria over 40 mg/m2/hr, hypoalbuminemia, edema and hyperlipemia. Its incidence is 2-3 cases per 100,000 children per year. The response to steroid therapy is expected in 90% of childre...

RI Pagine elettroniche
Sindrome di Kawasaki: l’uso dei corticosteroidi alla luce delle evidenze

V. Murgia

2014/3 — pag. 187-188

EL Casi indimenticabili
Al di là dell’occhio!

G. Ferrara, E. Zanelli

2014/3

RI ABC
Trauma contusivo addominale

G. Ferrara, P. Assandro, L. Calligaris, F. Zennaro, M.G. Scarpa, E. Barbi

2014/2 — pag. 97-103

Blunt abdominal trauma is a common presentation in the emergency unit and still remains a leading cause of death in children older than one year of age. The spleen is the most commonly injured but other solid organs or bowel may be interested, so e...

RI Pagine elettroniche
Linfoadenite monolaterale con milza "impallinata": quale diagnosi?

A. Zucchini, P. Ricciardelli, F. Marchetti

2014/1 — pag. 54-56

EL Pediatria per immagini
Accesso libero
Linfoadenite monolaterale con milza “impallinata”: quale diagnosi?

A. Zucchini, P. Ricciardelli, F. Marchetti

2014/1

RI Aggiornamento
Piastrine che scendono, piastrine che salgono: quando preoccuparsi?

E. Parodi, G. Ansaldi, C. Botto, M. Davitto, A. Mondino, C. Olivieri, U. Ramenghi

2013/10 — pag. 629-634

Thrombocytopenia and thrombocytosis are defined by a decreased or an elevated platelet count, respectively. Changes in the platelet number are frequently observed during childhood. This article aims at quickly examining the main causes of thrombocy...

EL Caso contributivo
Trombocitopenia neonatale alloimmune HLA correlata

G. Melis, M.R. Gallina, P. Rosetta, I. Paolucci, V. Raffa, F. Ferrero, A. Guala

2013/10

Neonatal allo-immune thrombocytopoenia (NAIT) is a pathology caused by the passage of maternal antibodies against fetal platelet antigens through the placenta. The role of platelet-specific antigens of paternal origin (HPA - Human Platelet Antigen) a...

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Il difetto di IgA: da un’analisi clinico-epidemiologica alla proposta di un protocollo ospedaliero

I. Della Libera

2013/10

EL Casi indimenticabili
Una trasfusione “di troppo”

F. Sfriso, F. Visentin, G. Biddeci, T. Zangardi, S. Zanconato, S. Scanferla, S. Masiero

2013/10

RI Aggiornamento
La nuova diagnostica delle anemie microcitiche

A. Iolascon, A. Gambale, C. Tortora, M. Bruno, L. De Falco

2013/9 — pag. 563-569

Microcytic anaemia is the most common form of anaemia, characterized by reduced MCV, often associated with hypochromia of red blood cells. Among the causes of microcytic anaemia, iron deficiency anaemia is the most common. The latest scientific dis...

RI Aggiornamento
Difetto di mevalonato-chinasi: molte facce di una stessa malattia

C. De Pieri, A. Insalaco, A. Taddio, E. Barbi, L. Lepore, A. Tommasini, A. Ventura

2013/8 — pag. 501-506

Mevalonate kinase deficiency (MKD), also known as Hyper IgD syndrome, is an inborn error of metabolism characterized by inflammatory dysregulation and, in most severe cases, neurodevelopmental delay. The clinical phenotype of each patient depends o...

RI Rubrica iconografica
Un pestone all’occhio ma... senza un trauma

M. Grassi, A. Zucchini, F. Marchetti

2013/7 — pag. 463

RI Digest
Accesso libero
Frequenza al nido e rischio di malattia cronica e di problemi comportamentali

G. Tamburlini

2013/7 — pag. 456-458

RI Pediatria flash
Anemia di Fanconi

G. Patti

2013/7 — pag. 454-455

RI Editoriali
Nido, miracoloso nido

G. Tamburlini

2013/7 — pag. 415-417

EL Casi indimenticabili
Un’anemia da sfera di cristallo

V. Dal Cengio, M. Bellettato

2013/7

EL Caso contributivo
Cheilite granulomatosa: descrizione di un caso clinico

P. Serraino, L. Cattaneo, D. De Benedetti, R. Lera, A. Secco, F. Pesce

2013/7

Granulomatous cheilitis in the paediatric population may be an initial manifestation of Crohn’s disease. The article reports the case of a 13-year-old boy who presented with epigastralgia and fever for ten days. Nine months before he had been diagnos...

RI Il commento
La sindrome di Kawasaki: ancora una sfida?

A. Taddio

2013/6 — pag. 367

RI Aggiornamento
La sindrome di Kawasaki nel 2013: casi clinici e novità

T. Giani, G. Simonini, G. Vannucci, D. Moretti, I. Pagnini, E. Marrani, G.B. Calabri, R. Cimaz

2013/6 — pag. 359-366

Kawasaki disease is one of the most common vasculitis in childhood. The typical expression of Kawasaki disease is characterized by persistent fever for at least five days, polymorphous rash, bilateral non-exudative conjunctivitis, changes in the li...

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
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M. Del Pistoia, E. Alberti, M. Leoni, M. Gori, F. Vierucci, G. Saggese

2013/6

EL Casi indimenticabili
Cicli da indagare (anamnesi e ancora anamnesi)

A. Paladini, G. La Fauci, M. Fornaro, E. Valletta

2013/5

RI Casi indimenticabili
E se il gatto non ci mette lo “zampino”?

A. Pirrone, M. Copertino, C. Pierobon

2013/4 — pag. 251-253

EL Casi indimenticabili
Un Bambino con troppi eosinofili

R. Meneghetti, G. Policicchio

2013/4

RI Casi indimenticabili
Un esoftalmo apparentemente post-traumatico

G. Tonelli, L. Tonelli

2013/3 — pag. 187-189

RI Casi indimenticabili
Un linfonodo duro come l'osso

E. Carretto, S.F. Chiarenza

2013/3 — pag. 187-189

RI Percorsi clinici
Dalla pelle all’intestino: le diagnosi differenziali di una sindrome rara

E. Benelli, C. Pierobon, A. Taddio, M. Maschio, I. Berti, S. Martelossi, A. Ventura, M. Carbone

2013/3 — pag. 167-172

The paper describes a child with chronic sideropenic anemia, who from birth presented a venous lesion of the ankle, which relapsed after surgery removal, and multiple small blue skin lesions. Through the description of the case the differential diagn...

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
La solita cefalea?

E. Alberti, M. Del Pistoia, M. Leoni, F. Vierucci

2013/2

EL Caso contributivo
Tante visite, una diagnosi “by proxy”: ALPS, la sindrome linfoproliferativa autoimmune

L. Sirianni, M. Mancuso

2013/1

Autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome or ALPS is a genetic disease associated with anomalous apoptosis in lymphocytes, lymphoproliferation and autoimmune manifestations. Generally, it is possible to observe severe lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegal...

RI Pagina verde
Quando il dolore osseo viene… dal sangue

L. Mambelli, L. Marangio, L. Pini, I.A. Venturi, M. Poli, O. Donzelli, F. Marchetti

2012/10 — pag. 667-668

The paper describes the case of an 8-year-old Moroccan girl who presented with recurrent multi-focal bone pains associated with negative flogosis indexes and standard radiological exams. The magnetic resonance exam of her thighbones showed a multi-fo...

RI Problemi speciali
Reticolociti: un parametro poco conosciuto e troppo poco utilizzato

U. Ramenghi, G. Ansaldi, M. Davitto, A. Mondino, C. Olivieri, R. Mazzone

2012/10 — pag. 649-651

The paper describes the usefulness of reticulocyte count in the diagnosis and management of anaemia. Reticulocytes are immature red cells that do not have the nucleus, but hold residual extranuclear RNA. In traditional morphologic examination, reti...

RI Aggiornamento
L’emofilia nel bambino di oggi

D. Giglia, S. Pasca, G. Barillari

2012/10 — pag. 632-638

Haemophilia A and B are X-linked inherited bleeding disorders, characterized by a posttraumatic or spontaneous high tendency to bleeding and whose severity correlates with plasma levels of a specific coagulative factor. In therapeutic terms remarka...

EL Caso contributivo
Quando il dolore osseo viene… dal sangue

L. Mambelli, L. Marangio, L. Pini, I.A. Venturi, M. Poli, O. Donzelli, F. Marchetti

2012/10

The paper describes the case of an 8-year-old Moroccan girl who presented with recurrent multi-focal bone pains associated with negative flogosis indexes and standard radiological exams. The magnetic resonance exam of her thighbones showed a multi-fo...

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Un caso atipico di sindrome di Sweet

E. Gnoato, S. Zanconato, C. Moretti

2012/10

EL Casi indimenticabili
La storia di Martina

V. Rossomando

2012/10

RI Articolo speciale
L’anemia di Diamond-Blackfan, la mia compagna

C. Rota, F. Parizzi, N. Masera, D. Longoni, U. Ramenghi, M.E. Villa, G. Masera

2012/9 — pag. 578-582

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Edema e pallore cutaneo

I. Rabach

2012/9

RI Casi indimenticabili
Un fegato da colpo al cuore

F. Vierucci, M.E. Di Cicco, S. Ghione, F. Belcari, B. Marchi, E. Randazzo,

2012/8 — pag. 532

RI Ricerca
La sindrome mononucleosica: revisione di 107 casi

C. Geraci, M. Pocecco

2012/8 — pag. 521-523

Childhood infectious mononucleosis is a benign and self-limited disease. Complications are rare but not unremarkable: 3 out of 107 patients experienced haematological complications (1 autoimmune haemolytic anaemia and 2 autoimmune thrombocytopenia)...

RI Problemi speciali
Insufficienza epatica acuta, un’evenienza rara... ma non troppo

C. Ripoli, A.P. Pinna, M. Furno, D. Congiu, S. Pusceddu, M.L. Fenu

2012/8 — pag. 515-517

Acute liver failure is a rare and complex disease that may present with a worsening course and needs a rational diagnostic and therapeutic intervention, in order to avoid most dangerous complications such as encephalopathy and metabolic changes, wh...

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Un caso di febbre persistente

R. Puxeddu, A.P. Pinna, V. Pisano, A. Doneddu, S. Marras, A.M. Nurchi

2012/8

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Il grown up dei bambini operati per cardiopatia congenita

S. Orlandini, A. Benettoni

2012/8

RI Casi indimenticabili
Un caso di acrodermatite in un lattante

M. Barrani, F. Massei

2012/7 — pag. 465

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Troppa acqua non fa crescere

S. Naviglio, M.C. Pellegrin, G. Patti

2012/7

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Sembrava solo un trauma cranico...

L. Matarazzo

2012/7

EL Casi indimenticabili
Non sempre epistassi ed ecchimosi indicano una porpora

G. Sanna, D. Ticca, V. Manca, L. Buono

2012/7

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Trombocitopenia da acido valproico o da infezione virale?

E. Gnoato, S. Masiero, C. Moretti

2012/6

RI Pagine elettroniche
Stato di salute dei bambini adottati dalla Colombia

F. Cataldo, M. Zaffaroni, A. Ficcadenti, P. Valentini, S. Garazzino, G. Veneruso, F. Colonna, L. Panigati, M. Gatto, A. Bizzocchi, E. Montesi, D. Maravalle, L. Bianchi, L. Gargiullo, S. Aguzzi, I. Raffaldi

2012/5 — pag. 329-330

Background - In the last few years the number of internationally adopted children from Colombia has increased in Italy, but their health status is unknown. This multicenter and retrospective study assesses the health status of these children at th...

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Para-paresi: un raro esordio di linfoma di Hodgkin

L. Baroni, S. Fornaciari, E. Bigi, M. Codifava, P. Bergonzini, A. Guerra, L. Iughetti, P. Paolucci

2012/5

EL Ricerca
Stato di salute dei bambini adottati dalla Colombia

F. Cataldo, M. Zaffaroni, A. Ficcadenti, P. Valentini, S. Garazzino, G. Veneruso, F. Colonna, L. Panigati, M. Gatto, A. Bizzocchi, E. Montesi, D. Maravalle, L. Bianchi, L. Gargiullo, S. Aguzzi, I. Raffaldi

2012/5

Background - In the last few years the number of internationally adopted children from Colombia has increased in Italy, but their health status is unknown. This multicenter and retrospective study assesses the health status of these children at their...

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Caso di Kawasaki incompleta

M. Barrani, M. Di Cicco, F. Moscuzza, F. Massei

2012/5

EL Pediatria per immagini
Accesso libero
La pediatria per sigle: un neonato con il RICH

L. Mambelli, L. Pini, M. Baruzzi, F. Marchetti, F. Arcangeli

2012/5

EL Casi indimenticabili
Toccature

C. Zanella, E. Valerio, M. Cutrone

2012/4

RI Casi indimenticabili
Caverne

E. Ugolini, P. Fioretti

2012/4 — pag. 259-260

RI Casi indimenticabili
Due casi di torcicollo non proprio banale

L. Lepore

2012/2 — pag. 127

RI Pagine elettroniche
Una bambina con sanguinamento intestinale cronico occulto: utilità e limiti della videocapsula endoscopica

A. Montemaggi, J. Barp, C. Bonaccini, C. Fancelli, M. Milla, P. Lionetti

2012/2 — pag. 125-126

Meckel’s diverticulum is the most common congenital malformation of the gastrointestinal tract due to persistence of the congenital omphalomesenteric duct. Bleeding from Meckel’s diverticulum due to ectopic gastric mucosa is the most common clini...

RI Problemi speciali
Il diverticolo di Meckel nell’era della videocapsula: una diagnosi un po’ meno difficile

G. Patti, M. Bramuzzo, G. Di Leo, S. Martelossi, A. Ventura

2012/2 — pag. 107-110

The possibility of using video capsule endoscopy for diagnosing is known. Nevertheless only case reports or small case series have been published to date. Data of patients referred to our Pediatric department who were diagnosed with Meckel divertic...

RI Linee guida
Linee guida per la diagnosi e la terapia del reflusso gastroesofageo

Sintesi a cura di R. Cavallo

2012/2 — pag. 89-98

The documents contains 24 formal recommendations deriving from a joint assessment of all the literature that can be evaluated as well as from the experience of the members of the panel and unequivocally clarifies what is useful to do, namely what i...

EL Caso contributivo
Una bambina con sanguinamento intestinale cronico occulto: utilità e limiti della videocapsula endoscopica

A. Montemaggi, J. Barp, C. Bonaccini, C. Fancelli, M. Milla, P. Lionetti

2012/2

Meckel's diverticulum is the most common congenital malformation of the gastrointestinal tract due to persistence of the congenital vitello-intestinal duct. Bleeding from Meckel's diverticulum due to ectopic gastric mucosa is the most common clinical...

RI Aggiornamento
Linfoistiocitosi emofagocitica: una sfida diagnostica per il pediatra

E. Sieni, V. Cetica, M. Aricò

2012/1 — pag. 21-29

Haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a severe hyperinflammatory syndrome caused by uncontrolled but ineffective immune response. Inherited human disorders causing the defect of selected proteins involved in the cellular cytotoxicity machinery...

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Accesso libero
Un'asimmetria oculare degna di nota

E. Chiocca, C. Domenici, E. Bellocci, G. Casazza, L. Luti

2012/1

EL Caso contributivo
Incremento delle transaminasi in un bambino con ipofibrinogenemia congenita e ipobetalipoproteinemia famigliare

M. Fornaro, E. Valletta

2012/1

The article reports the case of a 32-month child, born at the 28th week of gestational age, with a slight persistent increase in AST and ALT since the 11th month of age, hypofibrinogenemia and initial growth delay. Investigations excluded common caus...

RI Problemi speciali
Il deficit di glucosio-6-fosfato deidrogenasi

M. Bramuzzo, S. Lega, I. Bruno

2011/10 — pag. 648-652

Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is an X-linked inherited disorder and it is the most common enzymatic defect in the world. G6PD is an enzyme involved in the genesis of NADPH which preserves the cells from oxidative stress. G6PD de...

RI Articolo speciale
Accesso libero
Cinquant’anni di talassemia, a Ferrara

F. Panizon

2011/10 — pag. 644-645

RI Pagine elettroniche
Linfadenite atipica con Mantoux e Quantiferon positivi: descrizione di un caso

S. Ciccone, D. Lacorte, M. Cappella, C. Farneti, C. Malaventura, D. Saggese, I. Pelligra, R. Burnelli

2011/9 — pag. 601-602

Atypical mycobacterial infections are a common cause of chronic cervicofacial lymphadenitis especially in 1-5 yearold children. Although tuberculous mycobacterial adenitis are less frequent among this age group, it is important to consider them i...

EL Casi indimenticabili
Uno screening traditore

I. Giuseppin

2011/9

RI Casi indimenticabili
… Tanto ti “frega” comunque!

G. Paloni, E. Rossetto

2011/8 — pag. 534

RI Aggiornamento
L’ipereosinofilia

A. De Cunto, C. Geraci, E. Rubinato, G. Longo, A. Lorenzati, R. Mazzone, U. Ramenghi

2011/8 — pag. 499-504

Blood eosinophilia, especially if found fortuitously, often remains poorly understood. This article provides a diagnostic approach to hypereosinophilia, focusing on the context in which these data are found. The diagnostic evaluation of hypereosino...

EL Caso contributivo
Una speciale anemia sideropenica

M. Davitto, G. Ansal, A. Monno, E. Giglione, C. Maria Maddalena Fiorito, A. Conconi, P. Delbini, V. Vaja, A. Franzil

2011/8

Iron-refractory iron deficiency anemia (IRIDA) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by: congenital hypochromic, microcytic anemia, very low mean corpuscular erythrocyte volume, low transferring saturation, poor response to oral iron suppl...

RI Pagine elettroniche
Edema emorragico acuto infantile: vaccinazione anti-morbillo, parotite e rosolia come possibile causa scatenante

C. Ghitti, H. Sangalli, L. Pozzi, V. D’Apolito, E. Rossi, L. Gnecchi, R. Lucchini

2011/7 — pag. 465-466

The Authors report a case of acute haemorrhagic oedema of infancy (AHEI) in a 15-month-old male child, which occurred 9 days after measles, mumps and rubella vaccination and improved in one month without therapy, reaching a complete clinical reso...

RI Focus
Il laboratorio africano essenziale

M. Fortini

2011/7 — pag. 427-441

EL Caso contributivo
Edema emorragico acuto infantile: vaccinazione anti-morbillo, parotite e rosolia come possibile causa scatenante

C. Ghitti, H. Sangalli, L. Pozzi, V. D’Apolito, E. Rossi, L. Gnecchi, R. Lucchini

2011/7

The Authors report a case of acute haemorrhagic oedema of infancy (AHEI) in a 15-month-old male child, which occurred 9 days after measles, mumps and rubella vaccination and improved in one month without therapy, reaching a complete clinical resoluti...

RI Pagine elettroniche ; Caso Contributivo
Un caso di emofilia acquisita

A. De Cunto, P. Pasquinelli, C. Biasioli, V. Agostini, M. Pocecco

2011/6 — pag. 397-398

The case of a boy who presented with an isolated gross haematuria is reported. In the previous days he referred a muscular haematoma after a minimal trauma. Coagulation studies showed a prolonged activated partial thromboplastin time (90 sec), not co...

RI Problemi speciali
Un PTT lungo “per caso”

U. Ramenghi, G. Ansaldi, M. Davitto

2011/6 — pag. 379-383

The aim of this short report is to discuss the abnormality that is more frequently found in coagulation assays, i.e. prolonged aPTT. This is most frequently due to presence of low levels of lupus anticoagulants. This alteration is transient and d...

EL Caso contributivo
Accesso libero
Un caso di emofilia acquisita

A. De Cunto, P. Pasquinelli, C. Biasioli, V. Agostini, M. Pocecco

2011/6

The case of a boy who presented with an isolated gross haematuria is reported. In the previous days he referred a muscular haematoma after a minimal trauma. Coagulation studies showed a prolonged activated partial thromboplastin time (90 sec), not co...

RI Editoriali
Leucemia in Nicaragua

G. Masera

2011/5 — pag. 279-280

EL Caso contributivo
Accesso libero
Un caso di Kawasaki “full optional”

G. Gortani, D. Dragovich, G. Di Leo, F. Marchetti

2011/4

We describe a case of severe Kawasaki disease characterized by multiorgan involvement and rapid progression of symptoms. Severe diarrhoea with hypoproteinemia, refractory hypokalaemia and incipient cardiac failure are the main features of the present...

RI Pagine elettroniche ; Caso Contributivo
Grave deficit di vitamina B12 in una lattante

F. Colonna, E. Moretto, P. Costa, F. Zennaro

2011/4 — pag. 259-261

An 11-month-old female was admitted to our hospital for anorexia, pallor and developmental regression. She had been exclusively breast-fed. Mother with thyroiditis, non vegetarian. Hemogram in the baby revealed macrocytic anaemia (8.4 g/dl Hb, MCV 99...

RI Pagine elettroniche ; Caso Contributivo
Interessamento cardiaco nella sindrome di Churg-Strauss

A. Amaddeo, F. Marchetti, M. Londero, M. Maschio, A. Benettoni, A. Ventura

2011/4 — pag. 259-261

We report the case of a 15-year-old boy with asthenia, hypereosinophilia, a macular-papular rash in his hands and weight loss in the previous two months. Spirometry showed severe bronchial obstruction and transthoracic echocardiography revealed a...

RI Casi indimenticabili
Neanche una macchia sulla pelle Due Kawasaki al prezzo di uno

2011/4 — pag. 257-258

RI Pediatria flash
Sindrome di Klippel-Trenaunay

2011/4 — pag. 250-251

RI Ricerca
La malattia di Kawasaki: ancora una sfida per il pediatra

M.C. Pellegrin, A. Taddio, A. Ventura, L. Lepore

2011/4 — pag. 236-241

Aims: Kawasaki disease (KD), a systemic vasculitis of the childhood, represents the leading cause of acquired heart disease in developed countries. This study sought to assess clinical presentation, course, treatment options and prognosis of KD patie...

RI Aggiornamento
Le vasculiti “maggiori” in età pediatrica

M. Pavan, F. Marchetti, L. Lepore

2011/4 — pag. 223-228

The most common vasculitides in children are Schönlein-Henoch purpura and Kawasaki disease, both of which are usually easy to diagnose and treat and have a good prognosis. Nevertheless, the typical adult vasculitides, such as Takayasu arteritis, We...

EL Caso contributivo
Grave deficit di vitamina B12 in una lattante

F. Colonna, E. Moretto, P. Costa, F. Zennaro

2011/4

An 11-month-old female was admitted to our hospital for anorexia, pallor and developmental regression. She had been exclusively breast-fed. Mother with thyroiditis, non vegetarian. Hemogram in the baby revealed macrocytic anaemia (8.4 g/dl Hb, MCV 99...

RI Pagine elettroniche ; Caso Contributivo
La picnocitosi infantile: una causa rara ma non infrequente di anemia emolitica neonatale severa

A.M. Aurino, R. Di Concilio, G. d’Urzo, M. Amendolara, C. Romano, G. Attianese, S. Mauriello, C. Di Filippo, G. Amendola

2011/3 — pag. 191-192

The diagnosis and treatment of six patients with infantile pyknocytosis are reported. The clinical course and the diagnostic work-up are shown. All the patients necessitated therapy: phototherapy in five patients and one red blood cell transfusion...

EL Caso contributivo
La picnocitosi infantile: una causa rara ma non infrequente di anemia emolitica neonatale severa

A.M. Aurino, R. Di Concilio, G. d’Urzo, M. Amendolara, C. Romano, G. Attianese, S. Mauriello, C. Di Filippo, G. Amendola

2011/3

The diagnosis and treatment of six patients with infantile pyknocytosis are reported. The clinical course and the diagnostic work-up are shown. All the patients necessitated therapy: phototherapy in five patients and one red blood cell transfusion in...

EL Casi indimenticabili
Attenzione alla schiena

M. Innocente

2011/3

RI Pillole: per capire
Dermatite e IgE alte

R. Badolato

2011/2 — pag. 107-109

A case of Job syndrome is presented. Job syndrome is linked to a dominant autosomal disorder of the gene that codifies an intracellular protein whose function is the transduction of receptorial signals from the membrane to the nucleus. This central...

RI Linee guida
Le vaccinazioni nei bambini oncoematologicidurante e dopo la chemioterapia

Gruppo di Lavoro Terapia di Supporto dell’Associazione Italiana di Emato-Oncologia Pediatrica (AIEOP)

2011/1 — pag. 33-38

Aim - Defining the guidelines on vaccinations in paediatric cancer patients. Method - We reviewed the literature published from 1980 to 2009 according to the methodology suggested by the American Society of Infectious Disease. The intention was to...

RI Aggiornamento
Immunodeficienze primitive: istruzioni per l’uso

A. Pirrone, A. Tommasini

2010/10 — pag. 629-635

Primary immunodeficiency diseases (PIDs) are a wide group of rare disorders. In spite of the set up of warning criteria, a practical approach for suspect and diagnosis is still difficult. Based on few exemplar clinical cases and on the review of ou...

EL Casi indimenticabili
Una banale gastroenterite?

A. Paladini, S. Ciccone, C. Farneti

2010/10

EL Casi indimenticabili
Una diagnosi… “per esclusione di colpi”

A. Pirrone

2010/10

EL Caso contributivo
Infezioni ricorrenti nel lattante: spia di un problema più complesso?

C. Calitri, F. Mignone, C. Bertaina, C. Gabiano, C. Scolfaro

2010/10

An 11-month-old girl was referred to our Paediatric Department for immunological evaluation. She has had history of recurrent infections since birth. During different hospital admissions, blood tests revealed persistent microcytic anemia, liver funct...

RI Casi indimenticabili
Ittero in un lattante: quando l’assassino è proprio il maggiordomo

M. Bensa, E. Gubellini, M. Bramuzzo

2010/8 — pag. 525-526

RI Casi indimenticabili
Difetto di IgA e celiachia: diamo una possibilità a TGA- ed EMA-IgA?

M. Fornaro, S. Pecori, G. Zanoni, C. Danchielli, E. Valletta

2010/6 — pag. 395-396

RI Editoriali
Accesso libero
Rino Vullo

M&B

2010/6 — pag. 347-349

EL Casi indimenticabili
Peggio di così... giovane, inesperta e... terrona!

B. Sacher

2010/4

RI Pagine elettroniche ; Ricerca
Screening per minori adottati o recentemente immigrati da Paesi a rischio?Un'esperienza su 100 casi

F. De Franco, F. Colonna, E. Miorin, I. Robieux, E. Moretto, P. Aragona, L. Lubrano

2010/3 — pag. 191-192

100 children were studied, 72 recently immigrated with their family from developing countries (40% from sub- Saharan Africa) and 28 adopted from foreign countries. By protocol a complete physical examination and the following tests were performed...

EL Casi indimenticabili
Una comunicazione difficile e una diagnosi scritta in cinese

C. Landini, E. Mazzoni, A. Lambertini

2010/3

RI Pagine elettroniche ; Il punto su
Dalla diagnosi prenatale al management post-natale delle malformazioni polmonari

F. Gobbo, G. Pelizzo, J. Schleef

2010/2 — pag. 125-126

Congenital pulmonary airway malformations (CPAM) include a wide spectrum of developmental anomalies. Almost 50% of the cases are diagnosed in utero. These appear as hyperechoic, cystic or mixed lesions. Prenatal clinical course varies from seriou...

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
Accesso libero
Un bambino con “tumefazioni” diffuse… cosa c’è dietro?

S. Esposito, P. Ercolini, T. Montini, G. Rasca

2010/2

EL Casi indimenticabili
Quando le vitamine servono davvero

F. Lombardi, A.L. Quitadamo, A. Pelizzoni, P. Accorsi, F. Olivetti

2010/2

EL Casi indimenticabili
Primo pomeriggio in PS

C. Zanchi, G. Cont, L. Rubert

2010/2

RI Digest
La malattia fa bene?

2010/1 — pag. 47-48

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
Accesso libero
Una gambina più grossa

M.G. Scala, M. Mayer

2010/1

RI Pagine elettroniche ; Caso Contributivo
La sindrome del bambino azzurro

M. Bramuzzo, M. Pasini, A. Belluzzi, M. Pocecco

2009/10 — pag. 665-666

Nitrate intoxication caused by vegetables consumption is an unusual cause of methemoglobinemia in infancy. The skin colour becomes blue and the Hb desaturation can be fatal. We report the case of a 7-month girl who was intoxicated by chards and two a...

RI Digest
Genetica e infezioni

2009/10 — pag. 663-664

RI Aggiornamento
L’esplorazione bioumorale del fegato: il bilancio epatico

G. Maggiore

2009/10 — pag. 649-653

Liver function tests are a simple way to explore liver function and are a helpful tool to the clinician to confirm the clinical suspect of liver disease. Practically, evaluation of liver function includes determination of total and conjugated bilir...

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
Accesso libero
Leucemia linfoblastica acuta all\'esordio: quando nel dubbio è meglio fare...

G. Fusilli, V. Cecinati, G. Merico, M. Anna Piccione, G. Sarli, A. Granieri, G. Labalestra, F. Sarli, G. Russo, N. Santoro, D. De Mattia

2009/9

EL Casi indimenticabili
La leucemia “italo-cinese”

C. Landini, E. Mazzoni

2009/9

RI Pagine elettroniche ; Caso Contributivo
Leucemia linfoblastica acuta all’esordio: quando nel dubbio è meglio fare…

G. Fusilli, V. Cecinati, G. Merico, M.A. Piccione, G. Sarli, A. Granieri, G. Labalestra, F. Sarli, G. Russo, N. Santoro, D. De Mattia

2009/9 — pag. 597-598

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is the most common malignancy diagnosed in children. We report the case of a female patient presenting with asthenia and limb pain when admitted to our Operative Unit of Pediatrics. Laboratory studies showed high leve...

RI Problemi speciali
Lo stroke in età pediatrica

E. Franzoni, G.G. Salerno, V. Valenti, C. Garone, I. Cecconi, D.M. Cordelli, V. Marchiani

2009/9 — pag. 566-571

According to the definition given by WHO, stroke is a clinical syndrome characterized by rapid appearance of a focal neurologic deficit lasting more than 24 hours and determined by arterial or venous occlusion or rupture. The incidence of stroke is...

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
Accesso libero
Edema acuto emorragico della prima infanzia (Porpora di Seidlmayer)

A. Tagliabue, A. Bettinelli, F. Cogliati

2009/6

RI Pagine elettroniche ; Caso Contributivo
Edema acuto emorragico della prima infanzia (porpora di Seidlmayer)

A. Tagliabue, A. Bettinelli, F. Cogliati

2009/6 — pag. 393-394

Acute hemorrhagic edema is an uncommon leukocytoclastic small-vessel vasculitis that may affect young children. In literature only few cases have been reported (294 cases). In many cases the disease developed after a simple acute infection. The e...

RI Farmacoriflessioni
Utilizzo delle immunoglobuline endovenose nella pratica clinica in pediatria

G. Ventura, M. Rabusin, E. Spinelli, R. Badolato

2009/6 — pag. 371-381

Intravenous immunoglobuline is a blood product prepared from the serum of between 1,000 and 15,000 donors per batch. It is the treatment indicated for patients with antibody deficiencies and it is used in replacement doses of 200-400 mg/kg. In cont...

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
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Sanguinamento intestinale cronico occulto in una ragazza di 14 anni. Diagnosi di linfagioma cavernoso dell\'intestino tenue con videocapsula endoscopica

S. Bevilacqua, M. Mainetti, M. Vestri, A. Montemaggi, T. Slabadzianiuk, P. Lionetti

2009/5

RI Pagine elettroniche ; Caso Contributivo
Sanguinamento intestinale cronico occulto in una ragazza di 14 anni. Diagnosi di linfangioma cavernoso dell’intestino tenue con videocapsula endoscopica

S. Bevilacqua, M. Mainetti, M. Vestri, A. Montemaggi, T. Slabadzianiuk, P. Lionetti

2009/5 — pag. 327-328

Occult lower gastrointestinal bleeding may be due to numerous conditions: a rare cause is small intestinal lymphangioma. The Authors describe a case of a 14 year-old girl who presented with severe anaemia, no abdominal pain and no rectal bleeding...

EL Pediatria per l'ospedale
Accesso libero
L'epistassi

G. Bartolozzi

2009/4

EL Pediatria per immagini
Accesso libero
I labbroni di Roberto

C. Bersanini, G. Zuin, M. Fontana

2009/4

EL Casi indimenticabili
Accesso libero
I meriti degli altri

E. Barbi

2009/3

RI Aggiornamento monografico
Oncologia pediatrica: dalla diagnosi alla terapia, presente e futuro (parte seconda)

P. Paolucci, I. Mariotti, E. Bigi, S. Schiavo, C. Cano

2009/3 — pag. 156-161

The objective of treatment for more than 70% of children with cancer outlines the successful routes built up by paediatric oncologists over the latest 40 years. In addition to the evolution of diagnostic routes reported in our former article, the sec...

RI Aggiornamento monografico
Oncologia pediatrica: le tappe della diagnosi

P. Paolucci, I. Mariotti, E. Bigi, et al.

2009/2 — pag. 85-93

The objective of cure for more than 70% of children with cancer outlines the successful routes built up by paediatric oncologists over the latest 40 years. This successful story stands for the development and evolution of the diagnostic routes wher...

RI Percorsi clinici
Appendicite, anzi no yersiniosi, anzi no tubercolosi!

A. Consolaro e collaboratori

2009/1 — pag. 39-42

We describe the case of a 5-year boy, born from Moroccan parents, who underwent surgery for acute appendicitis and granulomatous peritonitis. Histopathological and serological findings were suggestive of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis infection. All i...

RI Pillole: per capire
Neutropenia da mielocatessi

R. Badolato

2009/1 — pag. 35-38

The works describes a case of WHIM (Warts, Hypogammaglobulinemia, Immunodeficit, Myelokathexis) characterized by neutropenia, hypogammaglobulinemia, reduced number of lymphocytes B (C19) in blood stream, and bone marrow rich in element of the myelo...

RI Pagine elettroniche ; Caso Contributivo
Un caso di bartonellosi viscerale in paziente immunocompetente

R. Grazioli, R. Milani Capialbi, F. Marchetti, A. Bettinelli

2008/6 — pag. 395-397

We report a case of a 5-year-old immunocompetent boy with persistent fever and a diffuse enlargement of laterocervical lymph nodes. We performed first an abdominal ultrasonography and then a CT showed multiple hepatosplenic abscesses. Later the f...

RI Problemi speciali
I gemelli: eterogeneità clinica e approccio multidisciplinare

E. Piro, G. Corsello

2008/6 — pag. 375-380

The incidence of multiple pregnancy has increased during the last 15 years, particularly in relation to the advances in assisted reproductive technologies. Twins are conceived in about 1 in 80 pregnancies. Multiple gestations are high risk pregnanc...

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
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Un caso di bartonellosi viscerale in paziente immunocompetente

R. Grazioli, R. Milani Capialbi, F. Marchetti, A. Bettinelli

2008/6

RI Percorsi clinici
Un percorso troppo breve

Antonio Pulella, Rocco Cavaliere, Angela Tisci, Marco Rabusin

2008/5 — pag. 319-321

A 10-year-old girl was admitted with a 3-month history of pain in her knee joints. The pain had been occasional, very short, particularly prominent at night, when she woke up and then fell asleep again. The knee joints were warm, but there was no li...

RI Pagine elettroniche ; Caso Contributivo
Malattia di Ménétrier in un bambino di 3 anni

M. Lorusso, S. Bevilacqua, E. Pozzi, F. Mangiantini, A. Gissi, P. Lionetti

2008/4 — pag. 260-261

We report a case of a 3-year-old boy, who presented vomiting and edema for one week. The latter was first localized in the periorbital region and then generalized. Laboratory studies revealed severe hypoproteinemia (total protein: 2.9 g/dl) and C...

EL Appunti di Terapia
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Reazioni cutanee ai farmaci (parte terza)

G. Bartolozzi

2008/2

RI Rubrica iconografica
Dermatologia neonatale

S. Nobile, P. Osimani, A. Zoppi, F.M. de Benedictis

2008/2 — pag. 117-118

RI Pagine elettroniche ; Caso Contributivo
Ipocalcemia: un sintomo dalle tante "facies"

G. Igli Baroncelli, F. Vierucci, G. Saggese

2008/1 — pag. 51-52

Clinical presentation of hypocalcemia ranges from asymptomatic biochemical abnormality to a severe condition characterized by seizures and varying degrees of tetany. Hypoparathyroidism may be a main cause of hypocalcemia. Di- George syndrome may ...

EL Il punto su
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Gli antiossidanti nello stress ossidativo della talassemia e dell'anemia falciforme. A che punto siamo?

A. Savelli, L. Pecorari, M. Marsella, C. Borgna-Pignatti

2008/1

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
Accesso libero
Linfoadenite laterocervicale tubercolare: terapia medica, chirurgica ed effetti paradossi

G. Tornese, A. Tedeschi, D. Codrich, C. Fabris, F. Marchetti

2008/1

RI Pagine elettroniche ; Caso Contributivo
Anemia emolitica autoimmune in un bambinodi 7 anni con colite ulcerosa

C. Brondello, M. Lorusso, E. Pozzi, F. Bronzini, F. Mangiantini, M. de Martino, P. Lionetti

2007/9 — pag. 597-598

We report a case of a 7 year-old patient with a 4-year history of severe steroid-refractory Ulcerative Colitis (UC) which had been controlled with cyclosporine and azathioprine, who was admitted to our Clinic because of jaundice. At time of admiss...

RI Pagine elettroniche ; Caso Contributivo
Yersinia enterocolitica: diagnosi differenzialecon appendicite, adenomesenterite e mici

E. Miorin, P. Aragona, F. Colonna

2007/9 — pag. 597-598

We report a case of a 11-year old boy with Yersinia enterocolitica (YE) enteritis mimicking initially acute appendicitis. The following clinical course was characterized by persistent periciecal adenitis associated with elevated levels of inflamma...

EL Casi indimenticabili
Accesso libero
Crostosità ricorrente Ostinata Herpes Negativa

M. Cutrone, M. Fontanin, F. Intini, G. Montesanto

2007/9

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
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Anemia emolitica autoimmune in un bambino di 7 anni con colite ulcerosa

C. Brondello, M. Lorusso, E. Pozzi, F. Bronzini, F. Mangiantini, M. de Martino, P. Lionetti

2007/9

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
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Yersinia enterocolitica: diagnosi differenziale con appendicite, adenomesenterite e MICI

E. Miorin, P. Aragona, F. Colonna

2007/9

RI Aggiornamento
La splenomegalia

M. Rabusin, F. Patarino

2007/8 — pag. 493-499

The spleen in infants and children is involved in a wide variety of pathological conditions. Splenic disorders may be isolated like splenic cysts or, more frequently, due to multiorgan or systemic disease including hepatic diseases, malignancy, hemo...

RI Problemi non correnti
L'esofagite eosinofila

J. Bua, F. Marchetti, I. Giuseppin, M. Marani, V. Villanacci, E. Barbi, S. Martelossi, A. Ventura

2007/8 — pag. 500-508

Eosinophilic esophagitis (EE) is the leading cause of dysphagia in children. Long underestimated in the past, it is nowadays reported with increasing frequency both in paediatric and adult gastroenterology. However, its natural history, its pathoge...

EL Pediatria per l'ospedale
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Il Neuroblastoma (parte prima)

G. Bartolozzi

2007/7

RI Digest
Effetto dell’esposizione al traffico autostradale sullo sviluppo del polmoneUtilità dei corticosteroidi nel trattamento inizialedella malattia di Kawasaki

2007/6 — pag. 387-388

Obesity has reached epidemic proportions, whereas steadily effective therapies are not available. Behavioural Therapy, even if recommended, is not always available or easily accepted by children and/or their families. We developed an intensive and...

RI Pagine elettroniche ; Caso Contributivo
Un caso di eritrofagocitosi secondaria a leishmaniosi nell’entroterra friulano

F. Minen, C. Oretti, F. Marchetti, G. Zanazzo, M. Maschio, D. Lizzi, A Ventura

2007/5 — pag. 325-327

The present report describes the case of a 2-year-old girl that lives in Northern Italy suffering from a one month lasting fever, pallor and hepatosplenomegaly. Serum testing showed pancytopenia, high levels of immunoglobulins, hypertriglyceridemia a...

RI Casi indimenticabili
Una strana epatite autoimmune

G. Maggiore

2007/5 — pag. 320

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
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Un caso di eritrofagocitosi secondaria a leishmaniosi nell'entroterra friulano

F. Minen, C. Oretti, F. Marchetti, G. Zanazzo, M. Maschio, D. Lizzi, A. Ventura

2007/5

RI Casi indimenticabili
Una milza enorme...

Mario Furbetta, Stefanie Rempp

2007/4 — pag. 255-256

EL Casi indimenticabili
Accesso libero
Russare: un disturbo banale?

C. Gussoni

2007/4

EL Casi indimenticabili
Accesso libero
Sarà un tumore!

B. Sacher

2007/4

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
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Un caso di zoppia

C. Galletto, N. Bertorello, E. Barisone, R. Mazzone, A. Andreacchio

2007/1

RI Pagine elettroniche ; Caso Contributivo
Un caso di zoppia

C. Galletto, N. Bertorello, E. Barisone, R. Mazzone, A. Andreacchio

2007/1 — pag. 51-53

In childhood and adolescence articular pains are frequent and in most of the cases they disappear rapidly and spontaneously. In a few patients the cause of the symptoms is an organic and/or a systemic pathology that require accurate examination a...

RI Problemi correnti
Anemie facili e difficili

U. Ramenghi

2007/1 — pag. 27-31

Most forms of anemias in childhood are easy to diagnose. A decreased mean corpuscolar volume (MCV) is due to reduced hemoglobin synthesis and suggests iron deficiency or thalassemia. Anemia with a normal MCV is mainly due to hemolysis or hemorrhage...

RI Pagine elettroniche ; Caso Contributivo
Un caso di polmonite con piastrinosi

F. De Maddi, C. Santoro, R. Crusco, P. Siani

2006/10 — pag. 667

The Authors describe a case of pneumonia in an 11 months old child, who presented with high inflammatory indexes. Antibiotic response was quick, with rapid improvement of symptoms, fever resolution in 72 hours and resolution of the radiological pneum...

RI Casi indimenticabili
Dolori addominali ricorrenti con anse ispessite in bambina celiaca. Quale diagnosi?

M. Lazzerini

2006/10 — pag. 665

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
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Un caso di polmonite con piastrinosi

F. De Maddi, C. Santoro, R. Crusco, P. Siani

2006/10

RI Pagine elettroniche ; Caso Contributivo
Diagnosi di malattia di Rendu-Osler-Weber in bambina con cianosi e teleangectasie cutanee

P. Quarello, E. Parodi, D. Renga, L. Farinasso, P. Saracco

2006/9 — pag. 601-602

We report the case of an 9 years old child with cyanosis and clubbing. Her mother was affected by Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) with muco-cutaneous telangiectasias and epistaxis. Decreased level of oxygen in arterial blood was detected ...

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
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Diagnosi di malattia di Rendu-Osler-Weber in bambina con cianosi e teleangiectasie cutanee

P. Quarello, E. Paro, D. Renga, L. Farinasso, P. Saracco

2006/9

RI Pagine elettroniche ; Caso Contributivo
Il linfedema primario precoce: descrizione di due casi e revisione della letteratura

C. Oretti, G. Cont, E. Barbi, B. Ziani, F. Marchetti

2006/8 — pag. 533-534

Lymphedema praecox is a type of primary lymphedema which causes progressive lower limbs oedema. It is more common in girls, especially around puberty, and is typically painless and unilateral. This article describes two patients presenting with unila...

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
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Il linfedema primario precoce: descrizione di due casi e revisione della letteratura

C. Oretti, G. Cont, E. Barbi, B. Ziani, F. Marchetti

2006/8

RI Pagine elettroniche
Presentazioni "Giovani" di Gastroenterologia

M. Bensa, Z. Cannioto, S. Norbedo

2006/6 — pag. 391-393

RI Pagine elettroniche
Un quadro clinico a cavallo fra sindrome dello shock tossico e malattia di Kawasaki: descrizione di un caso

C. Locatelli, M. Pocecco

2006/6 — pag. 391-393

Toxic shock syndrome (TSS) is a multiorgan failure disease with a sudden onset, fever, rash followed by desquamation, vomiting and diarrhea, hypotension, myalgia, mental confusion, conjunctivitis and strawberry tongue. It is caused by toxin-producin...

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
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Un quadro clinico a cavallo fra Sindrome dello Shock Tossico e Malattia di Kawasaki: descrizione di un caso

C. Locatelli, M. Pocecco

2006/6

EL Appunti di Terapia
Accesso libero
Trattamento delle lesioni polmonari in corso di malattia di Crohn

G. Bartolozzi

2006/5

RI Aggiornamento monografico
L'anemia falciforme

M. Lazzerini, M. Rabusin

2006/4 — pag. 223-234

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is one of the most prevalent haemoglobinopathies in the world, being related to areas where malaria is or was endemic. In Italy the majority of patients still live in Sicily, where the overall HbS gene frequency is 2%. Domes...

EL Pediatria per l'ospedale
Accesso libero
Trombosi delle vene e dei seni cerebrali (Parte prima)

G. Bartolozzi

2006/3

EL Appunti di Terapia
Accesso libero
Trattamento della leucemia linfoblastica acuta

G. Bartolozzi

2006/2

EL Caso Clinico Interattivo
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Dalla clinica all'esame strumentale: un ragazzo con sepsi e dolore alla gamba

Z. Cannioto, S. Storelli, F. Zennaro, J. Schleef, F. Marchetti

2006/2

EL Caso Clinico Interattivo
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Dalla clinica all'esame strumentale: un ragazzo con sepsi e dolore alla gamba

Z. Cannioto, S. Storelli, F. Zennaro, J. Schleef, F. Marchetti

2006/2

EL Caso Clinico Interattivo
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Dalla clinica all'esame strumentale: un ragazzo con sepsi e dolore alla gamba

Z. Cannioto, S. Storelli, F. Zennaro, J. Schleef, F. Marchetti

2006/2

EL Pediatria per l'ospedale
Accesso libero
ß-talassemia (Parte seconda)

G. Bartolozzi

2006/2

RI Casi indimenticabili
Bastava la MantouxDall'Angola il "solito" piopneumotorace recidivante

A. Pasinato, V. Zuffellato, T. Gerarduzzi

2006/1 — pag. 51-52

RI Percorsi clinici
Una bambina con febbre e schiena rigida

F. Marchetti, S. Bassanese, I. Bruno, et al.

2005/10 — pag. 669-671

EL Pediatria per immagini
Accesso libero
Un'ecografia intestinale 'che parla'

P. Salierno, G. Cont, F. Verzegnassi, E. Da Dalt, F. Zennaro

2005/9

RI Rubrica iconografica
Un confetto sul petto

M. Cutrone, P. Cavicchioli, M. Chirico, et al.

2005/9 — pag. 609-610

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
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Segni di infiltrazione renale come esordio di una leucemia linfoblastica acuta

F. Patarino, M. Rabusin, G. Zanazzo, P. Tamaro

2005/8

RI Pagine elettroniche
Segni di infiltrazione renale come esordio di una leucemia linfoblastica acuta

F. Patarino, M. Rabusin, G. Zanazzo, P. Tamaro

2005/8 — pag. 550-550

Kidney infiltration by blastic cells is a rare cause of renal failure and represents only 1% of renal failure during acute leukaemia. We report a case of a 10 years old girl, whose acute lymphoblastic leukaemiawas diagnosed because of abdominal p...

EL Caso Clinico Interattivo
Accesso libero
Una disfagia per i cibi solidi in un ragazzo di 12 anni

L. Travan, P. Salierno, S. Martelossi

2005/7

EL Caso Clinico Interattivo
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Una disfagia per i cibi solidi in un ragazzo di 12 anni

L. Travan, P. Salierno, S. Martelossi

2005/7

EL Caso Clinico Interattivo
Accesso libero
Una disfagia per i cibi solidi in un ragazzo di 12 anni

L. Travan, P. Salierno, S. Martelossi

2005/7

RI Digest
Le cause della leucemia nel bambino

2005/7 — pag. 470-471

RI Focus
La celiachia dal vero: dal bambino all’adulto filo conduttore è l’anemia

T. Gerarduzzi, M. Lazzerini, F. De Franco, A. Lenhardt, I. Berti

2005/7 — pag. 434-455

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
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Un caso di malaria da Plasmodium Falciparum

S. Vaccher, F. Patarino, M. Lazzerini, E. Barbi

2005/5

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
Accesso libero
Orticaria cronica e tiroidite autoimmune:un'associazione da ricercare in pediatria

G. Inrli

2005/3

EL Striscia... la notizia
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TUTTE LE NOTIZIE

I. Bruno

2005/2

RI Rubrica iconografica
Delle chiazze agli arti inferiori stranamente persistenti

M. Cutrone

2005/2 — pag. 117-118

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
Accesso libero
Manifestazioni ematologiche nelle malattie mitocondriali con mutazione del mt-DNA

R. Cerchio, F. Timeus, P. Saracco, L. Garbarini, P. Quarello, M. Forni, L. Montezemolo, U. Ramenghi, M. Zeviani

2005/1

RI Pagine elettroniche
Quando una sepsi neonatale nasconde una malattia metabolica

C. Forino, C. Rodriguez-Perez

2005/1 — pag. 58-58

A 50-day-old boy presented with failure to thrive, hypotonia, pustular lesions and facial erythema, neutropenia and multiple positive cultures to Staphylococcus aureus. He was treated with intravenous antibiotics without clinical benefit. He devel...

RI Pagine elettroniche
Manifestazioni ematologiche nelle malattie mitocondriali con mutazione dell’mt-DNA

R. Cerchio, F. Timeus, P. Saracco, et al.

2005/1 — pag. 57-58

We report a 10-month-old girl who, at the age of 4 months, was admitted for increasing pallor. Severe normocytic anaemia, neutropenia and thrombocytopenia and typical diffuse vacuolization of marrow haemopoietic precursors were present. She also ...

EL Contributi Originali - Ricerca
Accesso libero
Sedazioni Profonde e ripetute in emato-oncologia:vissuto dei bambini affetti da leucemia e delle loro famiglie

L. Bana, I. Bruno, T. Geraraduzzi, E. Biasotto, I. Giuseppin, I. Berti, G. Zanazzo, M. Rabusin, R. Vecchi, E. Barbi, A. Sarti, P. Tamaro, A. Ventura.

2004/11

EL Pediatria per l'ospedale
Accesso libero
Emofilia A e B1° parte

G. Bartolozzi

2004/11

EL Appunti di Terapia
Accesso libero
Vaccinazione contro l'influenza in bambini fra 6 e 59 mesi negli USA

G. Bartolozzi

2004/11

RI Pagine elettroniche
Sedazioni profonde ripetute in Emato-oncologia: vissuto dei bambini affetti da leucemia e delle loro famiglie

2004/11 — pag. 723-725

Painful procedures are a major source of distress for children with leukaemia and for their parents. Procedural sedation, and possibly deep sedation, is recommended for these patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the attitudes of patient...

RI Editoriali
La paura e il dolore inevitabili

E. Barbi

2004/11 — pag. 675-676

EL Caso Clinico Interattivo
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Una bambina con artrite reumatoide sistemica e febbre: è una ricaduta?

C. Oretti, M. Maschio, M. Lazzerini

2004/9

EL Caso Clinico Interattivo
Accesso libero
Una bambina con artrite reumatoide sistemica e febbre: è una ricaduta?

C. Oretti, M. Maschio, M. Lazzerini

2004/9

EL Caso Clinico Interattivo
Accesso libero
Una bambina con artrite reumatoide sistemica e febbre: è una ricaduta?

C. Oretti, M. Maschio, M. Lazzerini

2004/9

EL Caso Clinico Interattivo
Accesso libero
Una bambina con artrite reumatoide sistemica e febbre: è una ricaduta?

C. Oretti, M. Maschio, M. Lazzerini

2004/9

RI Pagine elettroniche
Grave stato disprotidemico da malnutrizione

2004/9 — pag. 585-585

We report a six-months-old girl presenting with signs and symptoms of protein malnutrition: generalised edema with a rotund sugar baby appearance, abdominal distension and poor muscle tone. She presented also skin lesions, extreme irritability, t...

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
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Piastrinopenia isolata x-linked da mutazione missense del gene WASP: descrizione di un caso

C Locatelli, C Malaventura, R Ciambra, M Pocecco, L. D Notarangelo, L. D Notarangelo

2004/7

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
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PIastrinopenia isolata x-linked da mutazione missense del gene Wasp: descrizione di un caso

C Locatelli, C Malaventura, R Ciambra, M Pocecco, L. D Notarangelo, L. D Notarangelo

2004/7

RI Pagine elettroniche
Piastrinopenia isolata X-linked da mutazione del gene WASP

2004/7 — pag. 450-450

Wiskott-Aldrich (WAS) and X-linked thrombocytopenia (XLT) are two disorders caused by different mutations of the gene WASP. WAS is characterized by recurrent infections, eczema, thrombocytopenia with low mean platet volume (MPV) and increased sus...

RI I casi del dottor Massei
L’esantema acrolocalizzato di Gianotti-Crosti

F. Massei, L. Gori

2004/5 — pag. 310-313

EL Caso Clinico Interattivo
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Una bambina con febbre e dolore alle ossa

S. Bassanese, T. Gerarduzzi, F. Marchetti

2004/4

EL Caso Clinico Interattivo
Accesso libero
Una bambina con febbre e dolore alle ossa

S. Bassanese, T. Gerarduzzi, F. Marchetti

2004/4

RI Editoriali
Talassemia, deferiprone (L1), Apotex e Nancy Olivieri

F. Marchetti

2004/3 — pag. 144

EL Caso Clinico Interattivo
Accesso libero
Una dattilite bilaterale simmetrica

M. Lazzerini

2004/2

EL Caso Clinico Interattivo
Accesso libero
Una dattilite bilaterale simmetrica

M. Lazzerini

2004/2

EL Caso Clinico Interattivo
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Una dattilite bilaterale simmetrica

M. Lazzerini

2004/2

EL Caso Clinico Interattivo
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Una dattilite bilaterale simmetrica

M. Lazzerini

2004/2

EL Caso Clinico Interattivo
Accesso libero
Una dattilite bilaterale simmetrica

M. Lazzerini

2004/2

RI ABC
Leggere l’emocromo

I. Bruno

2004/2 — pag. 113-115

EL Caso Clinico Interattivo
Accesso libero
Febbre e rash con segno della mano gialla: è scarlattina?

M. Lazzerini

2004/1

EL Caso Clinico Interattivo
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Febbre e rash con segno della mano gialla: è scarlattina?

M. Lazzerini

2004/1

EL Caso Clinico Interattivo
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Febbre e rash con segno della mano gialla: è scarlattina?

M. Lazzerini

2004/1

EL Caso Clinico Interattivo
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Febbre e rash con segno della mano gialla: è scarlattina?

M. Lazzerini

2004/1

EL Caso Clinico Interattivo
Accesso libero
Febbre e rash con segno della mano gialla: è scarlattina?

M. Lazzerini

2004/1

EL Caso Clinico Interattivo
Accesso libero
Febbre e rash con segno della mano gialla: è scarlattina?

M. Lazzerini

2004/1

EL Pediatria per l'ospedale
Accesso libero
Il linfoma di Hodgkin2° parte

G. Bartolozzi

2003/10

EL Caso Clinico Interattivo
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Un lattante con pianto, anemia e bassi valori di immunoglobuline

M. Lazzerini

2003/10

EL Caso Clinico Interattivo
Accesso libero
Un lattante con pianto, anemia e bassi valori di immunoglobuline

M. Lazzerini

2003/10

EL Caso Clinico Interattivo
Accesso libero
Un lattante con pianto, anemia e bassi valori di immunoglobuline

M. Lazzerini

2003/10

EL Caso Clinico Interattivo
Accesso libero
Un lattante con pianto, anemia e bassi valori di immunoglobuline

M. Lazzerini

2003/10

EL Caso Clinico Interattivo
Accesso libero
Un lattante con pianto, anemia e bassi valori di immunoglobuline

M. Lazzerini

2003/10

EL Caso Clinico Interattivo
Accesso libero
Un lattante con pianto, anemia e bassi valori di immunoglobuline

M. Lazzerini

2003/10

RI Problemi correnti
Il deficit di vitamina K nel neonato

S. De Marini

2003/9 — pag. 586-587

Classical haemorragic disease of the newborn (first week of life) can be effectively prevented by oral or parenteral vitamin K supplementation. Late haemorragic disease of the newborn (2-12 weeks of life) is a rare but severe disease, presenting as...

RI Editoriali
La talidomide tra passato e futuro

F. Marchetti

2003/8 — pag. 489

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
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Un caso di istiocitosi con interessamento cutaneo e edema

A.Franzil, R. Meneghetti, M. Lazzerini, C. Trevisiol, L. Calligaris

2003/8

EL Avanzi
Accesso libero
Desametazone ad alte dosi nella porpora trombocitopenica immune

G. Bartolozzi

2003/8

EL Pediatria per l'ospedale
Accesso libero
Il linfoma di Hodgkin1° parte

G. Bartolozzi

2003/8

RI I casi del dottor Massei
Due bambini con linfoadenite persistente al collo

F. Massei, L. Gori

2003/8 — pag. 526-528

RI Farmacoriflessioni
La talidomide

F. Marchetti, A. Lenhardt, M. Lazzerini, Et Al.

2003/8 — pag. 517-523

The Authors provide an overview of thalidomide: mechanism of action, pharmacokinetics, efficacy and safety profile, with particular reference to experiences reported with pediatric patients. The review was carried out using the MEDLINE database for...

RI Problemi non correnti
Sette lattanti rossi: dalla dermatite atopica ai difetti congeniti dell’immunità

E. Zamuner, A. Tommasini

2003/8 — pag. 512-516

Seven infants with severe dermatitis, diarrhoea and/or infections are described. A primary immunodeficiency (PID) was considered among the diagnostic hypotheses in all cases. Thrombocytopenia, hypereosinophilia, lymphopenia and Ig deficiencies were...

RI Pagine elettroniche
Un caso di istiocitosi con interessamento cutaneo ed edema

2003/8 — pag. 535

A case of histiocytosis with skin involvement, multifocal disease including visceral involvement....

RI Pagine elettroniche
Varicella emorragica con polmonite in corso di terapia con steroidi inalanti

2003/7 — pag. 467

Description of a case of complicated varicella, with pneumonia and coagulation disorders....

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
Accesso libero
Un caso di emosiderosi polmonare idiopatica

R. Cerchio

2003/6

RI Pagine elettroniche
Un caso di emosiderosi polmonare idiopatica

2003/6 — pag. 400

A case of idiopathic pulmonary emosiderosis with irondeficiency anemia as the only presenting sign is described...

RI ABC
Nuove malattie: la SARS

M. Lazzerini

2003/5 — pag. 319-322

RI Focus
Che cosa deve sapere il pediatra delle malattie rare

A. Ventura, A. Gagliardo, I. Berti, F. Marchetti

2003/5 — pag. 292

Rare diseases constitute a highly eterogeneous category of (mainly genetic) disorders. Even if the individual diseases are rare, due to their global incidence, rare diseases represent both an important cause of morbidity and mortality and a challen...

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
Accesso libero
Trombocitosi grave e anemia sideropenica: un caso clinico

E. Miorin, F. Colonna

2003/4

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
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Una strana pancitopenia: un caso di anemia di Fanconi

E. Neri, M. Rabusin, M. Spaccini, G. Zanazzo e P. Tamaro

2003/4

RI Pagine elettroniche
Trombocitosi e anemia sideropenica: un caso clinico

2003/4 — pag. 258

We report a case of a 11-year-old boy with a silent thrombocytosis associated to iron deficiency anemia. Iron deficiency anemia is a known cause of increased platelet counts but the mechanisms causing this reactive thrombocytosis are unclear, perh...

RI Pagine elettroniche
Anemia di Fanconi con fenotipo normale

2003/4 — pag. 258

Fanconi anemia is a rare disease, with normal phenotype in a third of the cases. It is characterized by aplastic anemia/pancytopenia, macrocytosis and chromosomal abnormality, which is responsible of the high risk of cancer...

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
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Un caso di afibrinogenemia congenita

C. Alfano, G. Falso, F. Nunziata

2003/2

RI Pagine elettroniche
Un caso di afibrinogenemia congenita

2003/2 — pag. 128-128

ase report of congenital afibrinogenemia with neonatal onset....

EL Pediatria per l'ospedale
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Le malattie del viaggiatore (parte terza)

G. Bartolozzi

2003/1

EL Casi clinici della letteratura
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Un caso di Kawasaki in un lattante

G. Bartolozzi

2003/1

RI Ricerca
Analisi retrospettiva della malattia di Kawasaki nel Nord-Est d’Italia: è il momento di una revisione dei criteri diagnostici?

P. Pecile, L. Lepore, C. Pittini, et al.

2003/1 — pag. 43-46

The incidence of Kawasaki disease (KD) varies across countries, and open issues are mainly related to etiology and diagnosis of atypical cases. A multicentric collaborative study was carried out of all cases of KD admitted in paediatric wards of th...

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
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Diagnosi precoce di malaria da Plasmodium falciparum

A. Comite, A. Perrone, R. Chakrokh, P. Salvago, A. Corsini, P. Minelli, M. Malni

2002/9

RI Pagine elettroniche
Accesso libero
Malaria: diagnosi tempestiva

2002/9 — pag. 606-606

Report of a malaria case (temperature, convulsions, anaemia, splenomegaly) back from a trip to Africa....

RI Digest e superdigest
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Malattie maestre: una storia di grandi malattie dei piccoli

UTET Periodici, Milano 2002

2002/8 — pag. 527

RI Editoriali
Accesso libero
Malattie maligne e Pediatria di Famiglia

M&B

2002/8 — pag. 483

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
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Meningoencefalite da Listeria Monocytogenes: due casi pediatrici

E.Barth, I.Bruno, B.Longo, P.Petaros, M.Busetti, G.A.Zanazzo, M.Rabusin, P.Tamaro

2002/7

RI Pagine elettroniche
Accesso libero
Meningoencefalite da Listeria in oncologia pediatrica

2002/7 — pag. 460-460

Report on two cases of Listeria-induced meningoencephalitis in a child aged 19 months with pre-B lymphatic leukemia, slightly neutropenic, and a child aged 15 years with T lymphatic leukemia, not neutropenic but lymphopenic. The disease rapidly ev...

RI Casi indimenticabili
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Due fratelli e un’anemia

C. Rossetti, V. Mattei, L. Sebastiani

2002/6 — pag. 389-390

RI Domande e risposte
Accesso libero
Domande e risposte

G. Longo

2002/5 — pag. 327-328

RI Focus
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Colestasi nella mononucleosi infettiva da virus di Epstein-Barr

F. Massei, G. Palla, C. Ughi, et al.

2002/5 — pag. 308-310

Although biochemical evidence of liver damage is frequent in children with EBV infectious mononucleosis, signs or symptoms related to an impaired bile flow as jaundice or pruritus are rare. The Authors report three cases observed in a two-year peri...

RI Focus
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FEGATO: AUTOIMMUNITÅ, TRAPIANTO, INFEZIONEEpatite autoimmune: cinquant’anni e non li dimostra!

G. Maggiore, M. Sciveres

2002/5 — pag. 291-310

Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is an uncommon disease occurring mainly in women and characterised by the morphological changes of interface hepatitis on liver biopsy, hypergammaglobulinemia, elevated serum aminotransferases, and circulating autoantibod...

RI Aggiornamento monografico
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La gestione del bambino con malattia di Kawasaki: un approccio basato sull’evidenza

G. Orso, R. Vitiello, G. Nocerino, L. De Seta

2002/4 — pag. 222-229

The aetiology of Kawasaki disease is unknown. The highest incidence is in children aged less than 5 years. Its typical forms are diagnosed on the basis of criteria which include, in addition to fever lasting more than 5 days, the presence of 4 addi...

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
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Edema emorragico acuto del lattante, descrizione di un caso clinico e revisione della letteratura

E. Miorin, A. Meneghini, B. Don, C. Romanello, A. Tenore

2002/3

RI Pagine elettroniche
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Edema emorragico acuto del lattante (AHEI): descrizione di un caso e revisione della letteratura

2002/3 — pag. 191

A case of a 9-month old girl suffering from Acute Hemorrhagic Edema of Infancy (AHEI), with severe acute onset and short benign course, followed by spontaneous remission, is described. Review of literature....

EL Pediatria per l'ospedale
Accesso libero
Febbre periodica ereditaria (Parte seconda)

G. Bartolozzi

2002/2

RI Aggiornamento monografico
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Sindrome di Shwachman-Diamond: uno studio collaborativo

L. Giglio, P. Petaros, E. Neri, et al.

2002/2 — pag. 85-89

Shwachman-Diamond (SD) syndrome is a genetic disease inherited as an autosomal-recessive character, with quite variable clinical expression, course and prognosis. The mechanisms of the disease are still not well understood, but effective symptomati...

EL Pediatria per l'ospedale
Accesso libero
Febbre periodica ereditaria (Parte prima)

G. Bartolozzi

2002/1

EL Editoriali sui contributi originali
Accesso libero
EDITORIALE

I. Berti

2002/1

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
Accesso libero
Una caso di mielodisplasia... da parvovirus!

E. Barth, G.A. Zanazzo, M. Rabusin, P. Tamaro

2002/1

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
Accesso libero
Malattia da graffio di gatto - Cat scratch disease (CSD)

E. Mazzoleni, B. Loru, E. Pran, E. Pelizzari

2001/10

RI Pagine elettroniche
Accesso libero
Vasculite da immunocomplessi in sindrome mononucleosica trattata con amoxicillina

M. Zoppo, A. Perino, R. Balboni, P. Capalbo, P. Pistamiglio, A. Urbino, E. Rossi

2001/10 — pag. 698

Report of a case of necrotising vasculitis with circulating immunocomplexes and alterations in hemocoagulation during a mononucleosis syndrome treated with amoxicillin....

RI Pagine elettroniche
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Malattia da graffio di gatto: una piccola epidemia

E. Mazzoleni, B. Loru, E. Prandi, E. Pelizzari

2001/10 — pag. 697-697

Report of a small epidemic (4 cases of typical, but clinically severe lymphadenopathy, one case associated with hepatic granuloma; all of them appeared in a 2-month period). It might suggest a feline epidemic caused by a particularly virulent stra...

RI Pagine elettroniche
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Prevalenza di malattia celiaca in bambini con deficit totale di IgA non identificati dagli IgG e riconosciuta dal test ELISA per anti-htTG

A. Lenhardt, A. Plebani, A Insalaco, A. Rovelli, A. Tommasini, V. Villanacci, A. Ventura

2001/9 — pag. 623-625

The serum of 134 subjects with IgA deficiency was studied by carrying out an ELISA IgG test for anti-htTG antibodies and an AGA IgG test. The ELISA test was positive in 16 cases out of 134: AGA IgG test was positive in 22 cases out of 134. Out of ...

EL Contributi Originali - Ricerca
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Variabilità clinica nella sindrome di Schwachman: esperienza dl registro italiano

L. Giglio, P. Petaros, A. Amici, M. Stefanelli; C. Barbera, L. Bruschi, C. Catassi, G. Cavaleri, N. Cimadamore, M. Cipolli, C. D'Orazio, E. Di Bona, P. Failla, L. Filippi, P. Fusco, T. Gentile, R. Ghilar, G. Guariso, S. Varotto, V. Luci, A. Marchi, M. Masi, A. Miano, LD. Notarangelo, R. Padoan, V. Poggi, G. Menna, V. Raia, P. Roggero, P. Sacchini, A. Spataro, D. Stramare, G. Taccetti, C. Ughi, S. Valerioti, G. Mastella

2001/8

EL Pediatria per immagini
Accesso libero
Istiocitosi cefalica benigna

F. Longo

2001/8

RI I casi del dottor Massei
Accesso libero
Una malattia con decorso “sotto-sopra”

F. Massei

2001/8 — pag. 543-544

RI L'angolo dell'immunologo
Accesso libero
Quando sospettare un’immunodeficienza

A. Tommasini, A. Insalaco, C. Perez, A.R. Soresina, A. Plebani

2001/8 — pag. 524-528

RI Pagine elettroniche
Accesso libero
Piastrinopenia cronica multiresistente in bambina con sindrome linfoproliferativa autoimmune (ALPS): efficacia della ciclofosfamide

E. Barth, M. Rabusin, GA. Zanazzo, P. Tamaro

2001/8 — pag. 548-548

Report of a very severe case of thrombocytopenia with lymphoproliferative autoimmune syndrome (hereditary ALPS) resistant to classical treatments, both in high doses or bolus, with prompt and durable response to cyclophosfamide....

RI Pagine elettroniche
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Variabilità clinica nella sindrome di Schwachman: esperienza del Registro Italiano

Gruppo di Pediatri e AISS (Italian Association for Schwachman Syndrome)

2001/8 — pag. 546-548

56 cases of Schwachman syndrome have been enrolled in the Italian register in order to better define the clinical spectrum. Almost all presented the hallmark of pancreatic insufficiency and hematologic cytopenia. 78% tipical and 41% atypical osseo...

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
Accesso libero
Una strana linfoadenopatia laterocervicale

F. Quarantiello, F. Sellitto, M.E. Falato, E. Varricchio, A. Inserra, R. Boldrini

2001/6

RI Pagine elettroniche
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Una linfoadenopatia laterocervicale: malattia di Rosai-Dorfman

F. Quarantiello, F. Sellitto, M.E. Falato, E. Varricchio, A. Inserra, R. Boldrini

2001/6 — pag. 401-402

Case report of cervical lymphaadenopathy appeared 15 days after auricular piercing followed by local inflammation; hystological finding of sinus histiocytosis with lymphocyte-emophagocytosis....

RI Casi indimenticabili
Accesso libero
Celiachia, celiachia: il testing non basta

D. Sambugaro

2001/5 — pag. 323-324

RI Pagine elettroniche
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Malattia emolitica neonatale (MEN) da basso peso per l’età gestazionale (SGA) con anemia diseritropoietica congenita (CDA) tipo I

L. Lupi, C. Visone

2001/5 — pag. 331-331

Report of a case of Congenital Dyserythropoietic Anaemia (CDA) of type I, clinically expressed since the first day of life, with colostatic jaundice, macrocitic anaemia, splenomegaly. Retrospective analysis of 17 cases of CDA....

RI Editoriali
Accesso libero
Elettrosmog o ecosmog?

F. Panizon

2001/4 — pag. 216

RI Casi indimenticabili
Accesso libero
Senza la voce per piangere (il caso di francesca)

E. Barbi, I. Bruno, A. Ventura

2001/4 — pag. 255-256

RI Casi indimenticabili
Accesso libero
Quando l’epatite e l’anemia si alternano

C. Benucci, C. Trapani, F. Mannelli, I. Sforzi, M. Resti

2001/4 — pag. 255-256

RI Problemi non correnti
Accesso libero
Anemia sideropenica associata a infezione da Helicobacter pylori

A. Barabino

2001/4 — pag. 241-243

Iron deficiency anaemia may be associated to Helicobacter pylori (Hp) infection, as well as other extra-intestinal manifestations such as growth faltering, migraine, auto-immune disease and MALT lymphoma. The relationship between iron deficiency an...

RI Focus
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FEBBRI PERIODICHESindromi febbrili periodiche in Pediatria

A. Tommasini, E. Neri

2001/4 — pag. 225-238

A literature review is presented covering the recent advances regarding molecular bases and clinical features of recurrent febrile syndromes in childhood. These include hypoimmune (cyclic neutropenia, benign neutropenia) and hyperimmune (mediterran...

RI Pagine elettroniche
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Un caso di febbre periodica... un anno dopo; ovvero: PFAPA + Adenovirus + MICI

F. Sellitto, R. Rabuano, A.M. Basilicata

2001/4 — pag. 260-260

Description of a case of periodic Adenovirus-induced pharyngotonsillitis with a clinical picture similar to that of PFAPA (Periodic Fever with Aphtous Pharyngitis and Adenopathy), recovered after tonsillectomy, but apparently superposed to IBD, pr...

RI Editoriali
Accesso libero
Ricerca in Pediatria di base

M&B

2001/4 — pag. 215-216

RI Casi indimenticabili
Accesso libero
Infezione cronica da HCV: qualche volta il cerchio si chiude anche in età pediatrica

L. Zancan, M. Buffo

2001/3 — pag. 187

RI Rubrica iconografica
Accesso libero
Un angioma traditore (malattia di Hashimoto-Pritzker)

M. Ranieri, U. Corsi, G. Belluzzi, A. Tonetto, G. Dianese, G. Sacchi

2001/3 — pag. 181-182

RI Aggiornamento monografico
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Le microcitosi nel bambino: classificazione e approccio diagnostico

A. Sciotto, V. Furia, S.E. Munda

2001/2 — pag. 87-93

The Authors provide an overview of microcytic anemias. Causes of microcytic anemia include a wide variety of diseases, the most common being iron-deficiency, impaired haemoglobin synthesis, sideroblastic anemias and anemias due to chronic disease. ...

RI Focus
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Vivere con la malttia genetica: aspetti psicosociali della beta-talassemia

C. Vullo, A. Di Palma

2001/1 — pag. 26-29

The impact of genetic diseases on the quality of life is not always devastating. In the case of thalassemia, despite of monthly dependence on transfusion and daily dependence on deferoxamine and other medical treatments, which are often indispensab...

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
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Ittero neonatale e malattia di Nieman-Pick tipo C

C. Martini

2000/10

RI Pagina verde
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Esantema Kawasaki-like da anite streptococcica

F. Panizon

2000/10 — pag. 679-680

An atypical polymorphous exanthem was observed in a 2-year old female child. The exanthem was urticarial in the face, scarlatiniform in the abdomen and inner thighs, desquamating in the perianal region; endurated erythematous oedema in the palms a...

RI Pagina verde
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Ittero neonatale e malattia di Nieman-Pick tipo C

C. Martini

2000/10 — pag. 679-680

A case of early onset Nieman-Pick type C disease, with neonatal onset of mixed hyperbilirubinemia and increased aminotransferases, and later development of hypotonia and psychomotor delay, is reported. The congenital, functional and metabolic caus...

RI Pagina verde
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Agenesia polmonare e sindrome di goldenhar

P. Costantini

2000/8 — pag. 531-532

Description of a monolateral pulmonary agenesis case, which was identified at birth thanks to a pre-surgical radiological chest examination. A discrete dyspnea and a significant polyglobulia ensured a compensation of agenesis without desaturation....

RI Problemi correnti
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Le manifestazioni cutanee nelle malattie reumatiche infantili

L. Lepore

2000/8 — pag. 505-511

Cutaneous involvement is frequently present in rheumatic disorders. Usually the cutaneous lesions are typical and are useful for the diagnosis. In some cases the cutaneous involvement is present since the beginning (Schoenlein-Henoch purpura, Kawas...

EL Appunti di Terapia
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Gli anticonvulsivanti riducono l'efficacia della chemioterapia nella leucemia

G. Bartolozzi

2000/7

RI Casi indimenticabili
Accesso libero
L’anamnesi è sempre un buon investimento

F. Bouquet

2000/7 — pag. 460-462

RI Problemi non correnti
Accesso libero
Indicazioni alla splenectomia

P. Tamaro, E. Barth

2000/6 — pag. 373-375

Progress in surgical techniques and in management and understanding of haematologic diseases stimulate a critical reappraisal of splenectomy. Spleen plays an important role in removing normal and abnormal cells from the blood and in providing immun...

RI Problemi correnti
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Trattare la mononucleosi?

M. Fontana

2000/6 — pag. 365-366

Symptoms are usually mild in young children, but in older children and adolescents systemic and pharingeal complains can be more severe, sometimes with significant airway obstruction. Only supportive care is usually recommended. This paper reports ...

EL Il punto su
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Le anemie acquisite

G. Bartolozzi

2000/5

RI Casi indimenticabili
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Una lunga orticaria sfociata in una malattia sistemica

L. Lepore

2000/5 — pag. 316-318

RI Rubrica iconografica
Accesso libero
Eritema nodoso e linfadenite laterocervicale

M. Porrello

2000/5 — pag. 311-311

RI Rubrica iconografica
Accesso libero
Un linfonodo suppurato

D. Cimino, N.R. Lucini, S. Gangarossa

2000/5 — pag. 310-311

EL Protocolli in pediatria ambulatoriale
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Le linfoadenopatie

M. Rabusin

2000/4

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
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Broncopolmonite con complicanze suppurative come esordio di CGD

R. Rabuano, M. Falato, F. Sellitto

2000/3

RI Pagina verde
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Broncopolmonite con complicanze suppurative come esordio di CGD

R.G. Rabuano, M.E. Falato, F. Sellitto

2000/3 — pag. 191-192

EL Contributi Originali - Casi contributivi
Accesso libero
Febbre periodica (PFAPA)

E. Rabuano, A. Basilicata, F. Sellitto

2000/2

RI Pagina verde
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La febbre periodica (PFAPA)

E. Rabuano, A.M. Basilicata, F. Sellitto

2000/2 — pag. 123-124

Description of a case of recurrent temperature (every month), with follicular tonsillitis, satellite adenopathy, aphthas, absence of response to antibiotics, increase in inflammation indicators in the presence of temperature, negative results from...

RI Perché si sbaglia
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Una massa mediastinica… di troppo

L. De Seta, G. Aurelio, M. Grimaldi

2000/2 — pag. 113-115

RI ABC
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Epistassi ricorrenti nell’infanzia

G. Pelos

2000/2 — pag. 116

EL Pediatria per l'ospedale
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La malattia di Kawasaki, rivista da Kawasaki

2000/1

RI Focus
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Lo screening della celiachia: le ragioni del medico dell’adulto

B. Ciacci

2000/1 — pag. 26-30

The clinical features of coeliac disease diagnosed in a series of 517 adult patients are described. The most frequent signs and symptoms are iron deficiency anemia, which is particularly prevalent among women, bone demineralization, diarrohea and m...

RI Focus
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CELIACHIA: DAL BAMBINO ALL’ADULTOCeliachia, autoimmunità e altro: sei famiglie e una lettera

A. Ventura, P. Petaros, T. Gerarduzzi, G. Torre, S. Martelossi, M. Persic

2000/1 — pag. 19-30

Six families are described where more than one component was diagnosed as coeliac. The reported cases provide strong evidence of both the genetic background and the broad clinical spectrum of gluten intolerance. Most cases did not show any gastroin...

EL Protocolli in pediatria ambulatoriale
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L'anemia ipocromica

G. Leo

1999/10

EL Pediatria per l'ospedale
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Le β-talassemie

1999/8

EL Appunti di Terapia
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Il trattamento delle infezioni da Mycobacterium avium complex

1999/8

RI Casi indimenticabili
Accesso libero
Una "mici" da micio

G. Maggiore

1999/8 — pag. 516

RI Aggiornamento monografico
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L’infezione da Bartonella henselae nel bambino: una malattia frequente e proteiforme

F. Massei e coll.

1999/7 — pag. 410-416

The spectrum of clinical manifestations of Bartonella henselae infection in children is changed in recent years. The clinical features of 20 children with serologically proved B. henselae infection observed in the last 12 months in the Paediatric D...

RI Pagina verde
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Rash cutaneo e artrite in un bambino di 4 anni

R. Cimaz, F. Falcini

1999/6 — pag. 351-352

RI Focus
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Lupus neonatale: una patologia autoimmune trasferita per via placentare

R. Cimaz, B. Speroni, P. Careddu

1999/6 — pag. 365-370

RI Pagina verde
Accesso libero
Un caso di polmonite tipica da mycoplasma

L. Gnemmi, M. Pocecco

1999/4 — pag. 217-218

RI Ricerca
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Cercare la celiachia “dentro e fuori” l’intestino

F. Andreotti, A. Baggiani, F. Fusco, D. Sambugaro, A. Ventura

1999/4 — pag. 253-255

Since highly sensitive and specific serologic tests were made available (AGAs and more recently EMAs) a high prevalence of coeliac disease has been found both in asymptomatic patients and in children affected by various clinical signs and diseases,...

RI Casi indimenticabili
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L'eczema di Piero

F. Fusco

1999/3 — pag. 191-192

RI Pagina verde
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La sindrome cfc: un caso con piastrinopenia

A. Borrelli, G. Pinto

1999/3 — pag. 149

RI Aggiornamento monografico
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La diagnosi di ittero colestatico nel neonato

G. Maggiore, S. Caprai

1999/3 — pag. 157-161

The incidence of cholestatic jaundice in newborn babies is 1/2500 live births. Biliary atresia is the most frequent single cause of neonatal cholestasis, its frequency is 1/10.000 live births. The prognosis is strictly related to early surgical tre...

RI Casi indimenticabili
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Un osso... di gatto

A.G. Lodi

1999/2 — pag. 118

RI Problemi correnti
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Linfoadeniti da micobatteri non tubercolari

F. Massei e coll.

1999/2 — pag. 95-101

Non-tubercolous mycobacteria (NTMB) are responsible for 6,2% of all diseases due to mycobacteria in Italy. Lymphadenitis is the most common infection due to NTBs. Differential diagnosis must be made with tubercolous lymphadenitis, cat-scatch diseas...

RI Aggiornamento monografico
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Le istiocitosi dell’infanzia

M. Rabusin, P. Tamaro, G. Zanasso

1999/2 — pag. 87-94

Histiocyte disorders in childhood are caracterized by tissue infiltration with cells of the monocyte/ macrophage lineage. Two disorders, Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH), and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), account for the majority of ...

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La quinta malattia

F. Panizon

1999/1 — pag. 50-52

EL Pediatria per immagini
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Xantogranuloma giovanile

F. Longo

1998/10

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Anafilassi per alimenti. epidemiologia, storia naturale, challenge.risultati preliminari

G. Longo, S. Saletta

1998/9 — pag. 581

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Una splenomegalia febbrile con neutropenia

P. Tamaro, C. Malorgio

1998/9 — pag. 581

RI Focus
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Le molte facce della malattia infiammatoria cronica intestinale

A. Ventura e coll.

1998/8 — pag. 509-527

RI Focus
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IL PEDIATRA E LA MALATTIA INFIAMMATORIA CRONICA INTESTINALE (MICI)Malattia di Crohn: fra epidemiologia e patogenesi

P. Lionetti, M. Veltroni, A. Pazzaglia, M. Moriondo, A. Vierucci

1998/8 — pag. 503-527

RI Aggiornamento monografico
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La carenza di ferro Parte II: Clinica, prevenzione e terapia

C. Vullo

1998/6 — pag. 359-374

Part II of the review on iron deficiency (ID) is devoted to clinical manifestations, prevention and treatment. Pallor and fatigue are increasingly rare as presenting signs and symptoms of ID in industrialized countries. More subtle conditions su...

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C’è ancora!

M. Porrello, D. Corso

1998/5 — pag. 326

RI Aggiornamento monografico
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La carenza di ferro Parte I: Epidemiologia e fisiopatologia

C. Vullo

1998/5 — pag. 293-298

A comprehensive review of iron deficiency is presented. Current knowledge on physiology of iron metabolism is reviewed and on this basis the particular features of iron control in the neonatal period and of iron absorption are described. Pathoph...

RI Problemi non correnti
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Eritroblastopenia transitoria del bambino

F. Massei, M. Nardi, C. Favre e coll.

1998/4 — pag. 247-250

The Authors describe the diagnostic, therapeutical and prognostic features of transient erythroblastopenia of childhood (TEC) and report 5 cases. This disorder usually occurs in children aged between 6 mounts and 5 years. The clinical picture is...

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Malattia granulomatosa cronica: una diagnosi che può sfuggire

C. Pignata, L. Balducci, M. Bardare e coll.

1998/3 — pag. 155-160

This is a comprehensive review article aimed at providing to paediatricians the basic knowledge on CGD and at improving the quality of care of patients affected by this rare disorder of cellular immune response. Since early diagnosis is very imp...

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Il caso di Mirko

C. Favre, F. Massei, M. Massimetti

1998/2 — pag. 123-124

RI Editoriali
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Preoccupazioni di fine anno. Ovvero, la deprivazione per eccesso

F. Panizon

1997/10 — pag. 619-620

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La figlia del professore

C. Apicella

1997/9 — pag. 589-590

RI ABC
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Mononucleosi infettiva: immunologia, diagnosi e storia naturale dell’infezione da EBV

A. Mendoza, F. Panizon

1997/8 — pag. 502-504

RI Problemi non correnti
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Anemia sideropenica e GER nel cerebroleso

1997/8 — pag. 516-519

Gastrointestinal motor disorder occur frequently in children with brain damage. In particular, gastro-oesophageal reflux may be present in 75% of cases. Paediatricians should be alerted that sideropenic anemia may be the only sign of gastro-oes...

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Un asma che non risponde al cortisone

M.T. Calipa, M. Pocecco

1997/7 — pag. 455-459

RI Problemi non correnti
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APEC: esantema periflessurale asimmetrico

M. Cutrone

1997/7 — pag. 441-443

The paper describes a new entity, the Asymmetric Periflexural Exanthem of Childhood (APEC), first described in 1962 and recently recognized as a separate clinical entity by many Authors. It is characterized by scarlatiniform or papular rash whic...

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Morbo di Crohn

F. Massei, M. Massimetti

1997/5 — pag. 321-323