TEACHING FILES
Ira Shah
A 9 year old boy presented with multiple papular eruptions on the face, abdomen and limbs since 6 months. He has a thigh abscess at 8 years of age. Hemogram showed eosinophila. What is the diagnosis? Read the entire teaching clinical query in the section of “TEACHING FILES” and try the correct answer.

Last month’s teaching file:
Query:A 4 months old child presents with persistent bacteremia inspite of intravenous antibiotics. What is the cause of persistent bacteremia?
Answer: Infective endocarditis in a structurally normal heart. Read more...

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Inheritable Disorders of Interferon-Gamma-Interleukin-12 Pathway: Diagnosis and Management. Khalilzadeh Soheila, Adimi Parisa, Boloursaz Mohammad Reza, Nooshin Baghaie, Khodayari Amir Ali, Mansouri Davood. Out of sixteen patients with disseminated BCGosis, 398% were found to have defects in IL-12-INF-g axis of which three of them had IL-12Rß1 deficiency (mutation) and two had IL-12p40 deficiency and one had INF-g R2 deficiency. Read more…

CASE REPORTS

Cavernous Sinus Thrombosis. Vinayak Deshmukh, Bhavana Lakhkar, Jayant Wagha. Cavernous sinus thrombosis is a rare pediatric emergency. Early diagnosis and aggressive treatment are required to prevent morbidity and mortality. We present an 8 years old boy with cavernous sinus thrombosis. Read more…

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SPOT DIAGNOSIS

Last month’s answers:
Case 1: Kwashiorkar
Case 2: Lissencephaly

Try your clinical skills in the “SPOT DIAGNOSIS” for the fortnight and the lucky winner gets a child health CD – courtesy Pediatric Oncall 

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