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Question of the Week

Q. How do we perform the BCG test? What is the dose and dilution, and at what site (biceps or ventral aspect of the forearm)? How do we interpret it in relation to the child's age?

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Teaching Files/ Grand Rounds

A 13 year old female patient brought by relatives to pediatric outpatient department with sudden, new-onset seizure. Her family reported witness twitching movements of her arms and legs that lasted for 5-10 min. She was brought to the hospital while ...

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Diagnostic Dilemma

A 4-year-old girl born of non-consanguineous marriage presented with complaints of not flexing her left leg for 3 days. She was diagnosed as a case of neurocysticercosis 1 week ago when she had a left focal convulsion and a CT brain had shown a right high frontal ring-enhancing lesion with scolex an ...

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