abdominal ultrasound

Dolore addominale e stipsi funzionale: non sempre tutto coincide

Galli L, Bernardini R, Lo Piccolo R, Allegro M

2026/2 — pag. 38-38 — DOI

A 6-year-old girl presented with chronic abdominal pain and constipation, initially treated as functional disorders. Persistent symptoms eventually revealed a pelvic fluid-cystic mass via ultrasound. Emergency surgery addressed ovarian torsion caused...

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...

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...

Non passa mai di moda: il morbillo

Campodipietro G, de Palo B, Andreozzi L, Dondi A, Lanari M.

2025/5 — pag. 323-326 — DOI

The paper describes the case of a 10-year-old girl with persistent fever for approximately one week, poor general condition, skin rash, bilateral non-exudative conjunctivitis, cough, rhinitis, abdominal pain and vomiting. The patient was finally diag...

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...

Che sudori!

Benevenuta C, Caci AM, Calvo MM, Mussinatto I, Costagliola G, Tuscano A, Calosso G, Timeus FS

2024/10 — pag. 215-216 — DOI

The article presents the case of a one-year-old boy who was hospitalized for episodes of intense sweating, pallor, mild shortness of breath and hypertension. Tests revealed elevated LDH and catecholamines, and an ultrasound identified an 8 cm abdomin...

Macroematuria: pensare anche alle cause più rare

Fiorentino R, Ferrari ME, Pozzi Mucelli M, Lorenzon T, Pedrini B, Gimillaro A, Poskurica I, Toller I

2024/8 — pag. 163-163 — DOI

A 17-year-old boy presented with gross hematuria and pharyngodynia, without other significant symptoms or trauma. Urine tests showed eumorphic and monomorphic erythrocytes, with protein/creatinine ratio alterations. Doppler ultrasound revealed narrow...

Colestasi neonatale e fibrosi cistica

Maggiore G.

2024/6 — pag. 116-117 — DOI

The diagnosis of cystic fibrosis was eventually made in a one-month-old infant with cholestasis. The newborn screening for cystic fibrosis had been falsely negative....

La torsione dell'ovaio può essere subdola

Tonetto S

2024/5 — pag. 87-87 — DOI

The case of a 13-year-old girl presenting with abdominal pain and vomiting, ultimately diagnosed with ovarian torsion, is described...

Ematocolpo in un'adolescente

Cuozzo M, Milano A, Improta M, Ponte G, D’Aprea T, Ciccarelli GP, Tartaglione N

2023/4 — pag. 60-60 — DOI

The case of a 13-year-old girl presenting at ED with severe abdominal pain is described. The diagnosis of haematocolpos was finally made thanks to the classic ultrasound image....

Un calciatore con il mal di schiena

Lattuada M, Pagano M

2022/8 — pag. 176-176 — DOI

The authors describe the case of a teenager with low back pain, abdominal pain and low-grade fever finally diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. The intestinal and extraintestinal manifestations of the disease are discussed....

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 ...

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

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”....

L’invaginazione ileocolica

Servidio AG, Mazzolai M, Calligaris L, Murru FM, Codrich D, Barbi E, Cozzi G

2021/1 — pag. 44-50 — DOI

Ileo-colic intussusception is a major cause of intestinal obstruction in early childhood. Diagnosis of this condition might be hampered by variability in clinical presentation. Indeed, the so-called “classic” symptoms, namely abdominal pain, red curr...

Una infezione profonda: la cisti dell’uraco infetta

G. Cozzi, M. Conte

2020/6 — pag. 137-138 — DOI

Una torsione ovarica intermittente

A.G. Grasso

2020/2 — pag. 126

Vomito e alcalosi metabolica ipocloremica in un lattante: pensa alla stenosi ipertrofica del piloro

F. Nunziata, C. Alfano, R. Tedesco, A. Pugliese

2019/10 — pag. 245-246

Un ittero colestatico neonatale: la sindrome di Alagille

E. Rizzello, J. Bua, S. Nider

2019/9 — pag. 226-227

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 ...

Bartonella sine Bartonella

A. Barachino

2019/1 — pag. 13-13

Una diagnosi di invaginazione intestinale in tre turni

M. Colombo

2018/2

Malattia di Kawasaki: sì, assolutamente tutto e subito

A. Taddio

2017/3 — pag. 191-193

Più esami che dolori

A. Pirrone

2015/9 — pag. 598-600

Quando mi girano le tube...

D. Monacelli, A. Carelli, M. Castagnino

2015/2 — pag. 115-116

Wandering spleen in età pediatrica

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

2014/10 — pag. 659-662

La diagnosi insidiosa di un dolore addominale

M. Bellettato

2014/7 — pag. 463-464

Una strana allergia “ai latticini”

S. Nastasio, G. Marsalli, E. Alberti, C. Domenici, E. De Marco, G. Maggiore

2014/7

Le 10 raccomandazioni per scegliere saggiamente (“choosing wisely”) in pediatria

2014/6 — pag. 359-360

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...

Linfoadenite monolaterale con milza "impallinata": quale diagnosi?

A. Zucchini, P. Ricciardelli, F. Marchetti

2014/1 — pag. 54-56

Un’appendicite di troppo

E. Zanelli, S. Crocco

2013/6

Stump appendicitis is the re-inflammation of the residual appendiceal tissue after an appendectomy. It is a rare and unknown complication of appendectomy. Clinical features of stump appendicitis do not differ from acute appendicitis, even though th...

L’imaging del morbo di Crohn

F. Zennaro

2013/3 — pag. 180-181

Febbre e febbricola di origine indeterminata PPI nell’asma “difficile”: inutili e probabilmente dannosi Bambini che tornano dai viaggi con la febbre Dieta senza glutine alla deriva Adenosina nella tachicardia parossistica: dose doppia da subito Talidomitica!

2012/2 — pag. 79-80

Milza contorsionista

G. Cozzi, M. Maschio, E. Barbi

2010/6

L’importanza dell’ecografia addominale nella diagnosi di invaginazione intestinale

M. Bonelli

2009/8 — pag. 531-532

The present work describes the case of a 4-year-old girl who presented with a final ecographic diagnosis of intussusception. The insidious clinical onset of this pathology and the sonographic signs of reducibility are underlined....

L’importanza dell’ecografia addominale nella diagnosi di invaginazione intestinale

M. Bonelli

2009/8

Una diagnosi al telefono

M.G. Scala, M. Mayer

2009/8

Lo strano vomito di Matteo

R. Cavallo

2007/10

Dolori addominali ricorrenti con anse ispessite in bambina celiaca. Quale diagnosi?

M. Lazzerini

2006/10 — pag. 665

Dolore addominale ricorrente e vomito, con riscontro di formazione anecogena addominale

D. Codrich, A. Taddio, P. Salierno, C. Furlan, F. Marchetti

2006/10 — pag. 663-664

Un lattante distrofico

L. Calligaris, G. Cont, D. Codrich, F. Zennaro, F. Marchetti

2005/9

Segni di infiltrazione renale come esordio di una leucemia linfoblastica acuta

F. Patarino, M. Rabusin, G. Zanazzo, P. Tamaro

2005/8

Un prurito implacabile

I. Crupi

2001/3 — pag. 186-189

Immagini nella malattia di Crohn: un’analisi ragionata

A. Ventura et al.

2000/9 — pag. 588-589

La malttia infiammatoria cronica intestinale: una esperienza “tutta d’un fiato”

G. Palla e coll.

1998/8 — pag. 523-527

Una nefrosi a esordio inusuale

M. Massimetti, E. Bani

1997/6 — pag. 365-368

A case of steroid-responsive nephrotic syndrome in a six-year-old boy is described. Loss of consciousness due to hypovolemic shock was the presenting clinical picture. The epidemiological features and the main diagnostic and therapeutic problems...