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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...

Bronchiolite obliterante post-infettiva (PIBO), chi è costei?

Traunero A, Basilicata S, Badina L, Maschio M, Ghirardo S, Amaddeo A.

2024/5 — pag. 317-320 — DOI

The paper presents the case of a 14-month-old child with a persistent respiratory distress with wheezing and diffuse crackles on chest auscultation. Symptoms appeared after a viral pneumonia caused by Adenovirus. The recent history, the clinical mani...

Paralisi periferica monolaterale del VII nervo cranico da riattivazione di virus varicella zoster: la sindrome di Ramsay Hunt

Pasquali E, Addeo AM, Masi A, Romeo C, Marchetti F

2024/4 — pag. 64-67 — DOI

Ramsay Hunt syndrome is the second leading cause of peripheral facial palsy in children, and it is due to reactivation of Varicella Zoster Virus. A characteristic feature of this syndrome is the triad of ipsilateral facial palsy, otalgia and vesicula...

Paralisi periferica bilaterale del VII nervo cranico da infezione da virus di Epstein-Barr

Evasi V, Mariani E, Roncareggi S, Paredi M, Valsecchi N.

2023/10 — pag. 664-666 — DOI

Following a primary Epstein-Barr virus infection, a 4-year-old boy develops bilateral peripheral 7th cranial nerve palsy. Ruled out the other causes of bilateral facial palsy (first of all borreliosis), the cause of the paralysis is recognized in the...

Paralisi periferica bilaterale del VII nervo cranico da infezione da virus di Epstein-Barr

Evasi V, Mariani E, Roncareggi S, Paredi M, Valsecchi N

2023/10 — pag. 209-212 — DOI

Following a primary Epstein-Barr virus infection, a 4-year-old boy develops bilateral peripheral 7th cranial nerve palsy. Ruled out the other causes of bilateral facial palsy (first of all borreliosis), the cause of the paralysis is recognized in the...

Lesioni perineali benigne nel neonato

D’Agostin M.

2022/6 — pag. 393-395 — DOI

The authors present the case of a term newborn with a perineal groove and the case of a newborn with a so-called Infantile Perianal Pyramidal Protrusion (IPPP). The differential diagnosis of perineal lesions in newborns is also discussed....

A caval donato... guarda anche in bocca!

Gustuti V

2022/5 — pag. 114-114 — DOI

A 15-year-old girl with vulvar ulcers previously attributed to recurrent herpetic infection is presented. Aphthous oral ulcers were also present and the diagnosis of Behçet disease was eventually made....

Quando il fegato parla, ascolta (anche) l’intestino

Calia M, Lattuada M, Lebiu M

2022/4 — pag. 95-95 — DOI

The case of a 16-year-old adolescent with abdominal pain finally diagnosed with sclerosing cholangitis and inflammatory bowel disease is described. The possible involvement of the liver in IBD is discussed....

Interessamento genitale della porpora di Schönlein-Henoch

Tovaglieri N, Amariti R, Loiacono F, De Giacomo C

2021/3 — pag. 196-199 — DOI

Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP) is a paediatric vasculitis, affecting several organs. Purpura is typically found on posterior surface of lower limbs and is more often associated with joint, abdominal and kidney involvement. The paper reports a case of...

Una tumefazione testicolare con linfoma

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

2020/2 — pag. 31-32

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

S. Andrade

2018/3

Uno strano ballo… da corea reumatica

V. Di Ruscio

2017/10

Alopecia areataCollo storto in lattante;Possibile immunodeficit comune variabile

2015/6 — pag. 396

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...

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)...

Quasi cieco all'improvviso

Z. Pietrangiolillo, C. Venturelli, A. De Fanti, L. Cimino, I. D'Aquino, A. Crisafi, F. Monti, C. Ruberto, A. Graffagnino, L. Iughetti, S. Amarri

2012/1

Mycoplasma pneumoniae e sindrome di Stevens-Johnson / necrolisi epidermica tossica: descrizione di un caso clinico

G. Fusilli, M. Vitacco, M.A. Piccione, G. Sarli, A. Granieri, G. Labalestra, G. Russo, G. Merico

2011/7 — pag. 465-466

Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) are 2 rare (1-2 cases per million population per year) but life-threatening mucocutaneous reactions characterized by detachment of epidermis, acute skin blisters, and mucous memb...

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...

Una pisellite

M. Pennesi, E. Biasotto, A. Saccari

2005/3 — pag. 181-182

Una bambina con artrite reumatoide sistemica e febbre: è una ricaduta?

C. Oretti, M. Maschio, M. Lazzerini

2004/9

Le malattie demielinizzanti nell'infanzia: descrizione di un caso di ADEM

A. D’Apuzzo, R. De Nicola, F. De Rosa, M.R. D’Aniello, C. Morgera, A. Panariello, M.A. Cascone

2001/5

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

G. Palla e coll.

1998/8 — pag. 523-527