Wednesday, December 30, 2009

When is it a Dermatological Emergency?

A 9 year old girl has had a rash for a year. She has been seen by her pediatrician and a dermatologist with no sucess in treating the rash. The rash had acutley worsened over the last four days. The rash, a diffuse pustular rash, covers her whole body, it is itchy and painful, the skin sloughs off and she has a fever.

Picture of the month--quiz case. Pustular psoriasis, annular type

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Pustular Psoriasis 12.30.2009

Failure to Thrive by 'Spitting Up' ?

Morning Report Topic for December 28, 2009

A 2 and 1/2 month old girl presents with failure to thrive but other than starting to "spit up" three weeks prior to being seen she is normal in her history and check up...

Infantile Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis

A suspicious pulmonary nodule shows up on a chest film...

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(Topic for December 23, 2009)