Ultrasound

Fratture patologiche: dal sospetto di rachitismo a una diagnosi oncologica

Lacovara A, Pepino C, Covini S, Mazza F, Incolingo C, Ferrecchi M, Franzone D.

2025/7 — pag. 462-464 — DOI

The clinical case described highlights an unusual presentation of metastatic-stage neuroblastoma, with a femoral fracture that initially led to a clinical suspicion of rickets....

Cisti mediana del collo: cisti del dotto tireoglosso o cisti dermoide? Tumefazione delle dita e verruche

2024/10 — pag. 665 — DOI

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...

Zoppia e stipsi

Cocomero F

2024/6 — pag. 118-118 — DOI

The diagnosis of adrenal tumour was eventually made in a two-year-old child who presented with limping and constipation for a few weeks....

Un dolore in sede parasternale: la sindrome di Tietze

Pecile P.

2024/5 — pag. 332-334 — DOI

The author describes two cases of costochondritis (Tietze syndrome) detected within a short period of time in two 13-year-old girls. ...

Una tumefazione sternale: un semplice ematoma, o c’è dell’altro?

Greco M, Varriale G, Tamborino A

2022/7 — pag. 150-151 — DOI

The case of a 6-year-old boy with sternal swelling finally diagnosed as sternal osteomyelitis is described....

La diagnosi di craniostenosi: alcune riflessioni per il pediatra

Genitori L, Massimetti M, Scagnet M.

2022/6 — pag. 365-370 — DOI

Microcephaly is a medical condition involving a smaller-than-normal head. Microcephaly may present at birth or it may develop in the first few years of life. Patients with this disorder often have an intellectual disability, poor motor function, poor...

Granuloma anulare profondo

Potka A

2021/9 — pag. 288-288 — DOI

The author describes the case of a three-year-old girl presenting with a firm, painless retroauricular swelling finally diagnosed as deep granuloma annulare....

Una storia che zoppica

Lambertini AG, Falcioni A, Mambell L, Farneti C, Chiaravalloti A, Foschi N, Marchetti F

2021/6 — pag. 379-382 — DOI

The paper reports the case of a 5-year-old boy who presented with Perthes’ Disease with a long and underhand history of persistent coxalgia, which later became bilateral. Therefore, the main clinical data were reviewed with a particular focus on the ...

Tinea faciei Edema scrotale acuto idiopatico

2020/6 — pag. 396

Screening ecografico della lussazione congenita dell’anca? Farsi bambino, in modo “consapevole e responsabile” Espirio forzato manualmente SE IL CORONAVIRUS ARRIVA IN AMERICA. Perché è importante ricordare il 1918?

2020/3 — pag. 148-150

L’Europa al tempo del coronavirus

2020/3 — pag. 147

Una mastite neonatale

I. Del Rizzo, M. Tubaro, M. Robazza, R. Dall’Amico

2020/2 — pag. 33-34

Salmonella e appendicite

A. Di Candia, E. Pasta, C. Vallongo

2018/2 — pag. 115-117

Radiografia toracica di controllo? Ecografia, grazie! A proposito della vaccinazione anti-pneumococco Anne Frank, la Shoah e la memoria senza memoria

2018/2 — pag. 82-83

Lipoma intramuscolare in età pediatrica

V. Genchi, C. Cafagno

2017/1

The paper reports a case of intramuscular lipoma - studied with echography, echo-colourDoppler, X-rays radiography and magnetic resonance - as well as its clinical features and discusses a short differential diagnosis with tumours in adipose matrix....

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...

Lo scroto acuto

S. Salis, I. Rabach, R. Giorgi, E. Cattaruzzi, L. Calligaris, E. Barbi

2015/7 — pag. 448-451

Acute scrotum is a common cause of medical evaluation for children and adolescents. Diagnostic delay in case of a testicular torsion can lead to an ischemic damage of the gonad. The medical history and the clinical findings are not always clearly i...

Un ragazzo con la pancia piena

A. Maietta, M. Minute

2015/1

Due bambini, due casi: macchie tonde e strani bozzi

G. Paloni, I. Berti

2014/6 — pag. 393-394

Una tumefazione sternale da osteomielite

M. Giovannini, F. Pugliese, L. Casadio, F. Marchetti

2014/4

Primary sternal osteomyelitis cases are rare. The etiological agents are those of osteomyelitis. In the case presented the hypothetical diagnosis was osteomyelitis caused by Kingella kingae, a pathogenic bacterium that is a frequent cause of osteomye...

Parotiditi ricorrenti

P. Assandro, P. Marzuillo

2014/1

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...

Una malattia...“da grandi”

I. Vannozzi, F. Dini, C. Tuoni, S. Ghione, G. Maggiore

2013/1

Le nuove linee guida dell’AAP sulle infezioni delle vie urinarie

2011/9 — pag. 592-594

Una diagnosi al telefono

M.G. Scala, M. Mayer

2009/8

Un lattante distrofico

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

2005/9

L’appendicite acuta oggi

B. Cigliano, N. Baltogiannis, A. Settimi

2003/2 — pag. 99-102

Acute appendicitis is caused by the obstruction of the lumen due to coprolytes, mucus, lymphoid hyperplasia. The earliest symptom is periumbilical pain accompanied by vomiting. Later the appendix gets infected, fever develops and the peritoneum get...

Per amor di polemica: esiste l’appendicite “cronica” nel bambino?

A. Pineschi, M. Guglielmi, A. Messineo

2001/6 — pag. 393-399

Lo sviluppo puberale: valutazione ecografica

V. Bruni, M. Dei, J. Nori, A. Verni

2001/5 — pag. 315-318

The use of ultrasound can improve the clinical assessment of puberal development. Breast development is assessed together with uterine, endometrial and ovarian development. This joint evaluation shows the existence of important differences across i...

Invaginazione intestinale nell’adolescente

F. Pittarello, S.B. Canto

1999/5 — pag. 283-284

Malattie infiammatorie dell’intestino: terapia nutrizionale

D.C. Belli

1998/8 — pag. 527-527