Medulloblastoma

Sintomi atipici dei tumori del sistema nervoso centrale in età pediatrica

Pignataro F, Scisci E, Perillo T, Santoro N.

2025/2 — pag. 120-122 — DOI

Paediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumours are the second most common cancer in the 0 to 14 age group; additionally, they constitute the main cause of morbidity and death associated to cancer. Although intracranial hypertension-related and local...

Sintomi atipici dei tumori del sistema nervoso centrale in età pediatrica

Pignataro F, Scisci E, Perillo T, Santoro N

2025/2 — pag. 37-42 — DOI

Paediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumours are the second most common cancer in the 0 to 14 age group; additionally, they constitute the main cause of morbidity and death associated to cancer. Although intracranial hypertension-related and local...

Un torace che suona

Sutera M.

2024/8 — pag. 532-534 — DOI

A 5-year-old girl was evaluated for an intermittent thoracic sound present for two years, often associated with viral infections. The clinical examination was normal, except for mild mitral prolapse with minimal regurgitation noted in a prior echocar...

Nistagmo e diplopia: occhio alla diagnosi

Savino V, Bellini T, Siri L, De Grandis E, Tortora D, Piccotti E.

2024/8 — pag. 532-534 — DOI

Medulloblastoma is the most common malignant brain tumour in children, primarily located in the cerebellum. This clinical case highlights the importance of maintaining a high clinical suspicion and conducting timely evaluations, even when symptoms ar...

Le manifestazioni parossistiche non epilettiche

Tratta E, Piacentini F, Pelosi P, Cupone R, Mirri S, Bini R, Mirri G, Ferrara G.

2024/8 — pag. 532-534 — DOI

A 9-month-old infant, under follow-up for neonatal sepsis due to Streptococcus agalactiae, presented to the Emergency Department with episodes of head drooping, sometimes accompanied by blinking. During the clinical examination, the infant showed nor...

Nistagmo e diplopia: occhio alla diagnosi

Savino V, Bellini T, Siri L, De Grandis E, Tortora D, Piccotti E

2024/8 — pag. 164-165 — DOI

Medulloblastoma is the most common malignant brain tumour in children, primarily located in the cerebellum. This clinical case highlights the importance of maintaining a high clinical suspicion and conducting timely evaluations, even when symptoms ar...

Donne e coltelli

Tonin G, Ganis R, Colonna F

2021/7 — pag. 465-466 — DOI

The authors discuss the case of a 31-month-old girl coming from Burkina Faso who presented with a severe genital mutilation....

Tra reflussi e torcicolli

Brocchi S, Mambelli L, Mainetti M, Cenni P, Romeo C, Zucchelli M, Marchetti F

2021/7 — pag. 464-465 — DOI

The paper descibes the cases of a 10-year-old girl and a 3-year-old boy with CNS neoplasia. The girl presented with acute vomiting and cervicalgia while in the boy vomiting persisted for three months as the only symptom and was iniatially misinterpre...

La sindrome del carcinoma nevoide a cellule basali o sindrome di Gorlin-Goltz

A. Agrusti

2018/3 — pag. 184-185

Non tutti i mali vengono per nuocere

N. Gaias, D. Bettati

2012/7

Un reflusso gastroesofageo molto maligno

M. Grassi, V. Cecinati, F. De Leonardis, D. Amato, L.P. Brescia, D. De Mattia, N. Santoro

2010/8 — pag. 529-530

We report a case of a 13-year-old boy with recurrent episodes of vomiting. Initially a diagnosis of gastroesophageal reflux with esophagitis was made. The patient also showed bradycardia and deflections of mood. Neurological assessment and examin...

Un reflusso gastroesofageo molto maligno

M. Grassi, V. Cecinati, F. De Leonardis, D. Amato, L.P. Brescia, D. De Mattia, N. Santoro

2010/8

We report a case of a 13-year-old boy with recurrent episodes of vomiting. Initially a diagnosis of gastroesophageal reflux with reflux esophagitis was made. The patient also showed bradycardia and deflections of mood. Neurological assessment and...