DIAGNOSTIC DILEMMA

This month's Diagnostic Dilemma:
Venkatesh
An 11 year old boy complains of pain during walking for the past 5 to 6 years. Radiologically knees show absence of patella, mild degree of osteoporosis. There is marked ligamentous laxity and paternal history of imperfectly formed nails. Diagnosed as dentinogenesis imperfecta. Is this osteogenesis imperfecta or nail-patella syndrome?

TEACHING FILES

Ira Shah
This month's Teaching File: A 3½ year old boy presented with altered sensorium. He is a known asthmatic on inhaler therapy since 3 months and underwent right orchidopexy a month back. He had a generalized tonic clonic convulsion at 2½ years of age. He had delayed motor development He has hypotonia. He had hypoglycemia (RBS = 6 mg %). 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 5 years old girl presented with bilateral cervical adenopathy, hepatomegaly. FNAC was reactive lymphadenitis. Subsequently she developed pancytopenia. What is the cause of the cervical lymphadenopathy?...
Answer: Histiocytosis. Read and discuss this case in full details further....

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

CASE REPORTS

Harlequin Ichthyosis. Sriparna Basu, Amrita Ghosh Kar, Arti Mata, S. Gupta, Ashok Kumar, B.D. Bhatia. Harlequin ichthyosis is the most severe form of congenital ichthyosis. This is a case of harlequin ichthyosis that had a history of similar affection in two earlier siblings.

VIEWER'S CHOICE

Macrodystrophia Lipomatosa - A Case Report. Karuna Thapar, Gaurav Dhawan, Sandeep Aggarwal, Naresh Jindal. Read about a one & half year old male child with gradually increasing size of second & third toe of right foot since birth. ...

IMAGE GALLERY

ECG QUIZ OF THE MONTH S.S.Prabhu, Sumitra Venkatesh, Div. Of Pediatric Cardiology, B.J.Wadia Hospital for Children, Mumbai

SPOT DIAGNOSIS

Last month's answers:
Case 1: Complete heart block
Case 2: Necrotizing Fascitis with partial albinism to rule out Chediak Higashi

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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Pediatric Oncall

UPCOMING CONFERENCES

Pedipharmacon 2007
24th & 25th Nov. 2007 - Saharanpur.

4th National Conference of Childhood Disability Group. 2nd to 4th November 2007 - Bangalore

10th National Conference Of Pediatric Infectious Diseases 13th-14th October 2007 - Bangalore.

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