Recognizing and Responding to Child Neglect
Child neglect is a toxic stress with harmful outcomes. It is the most prevalent form of child maltreatment with continued trends for underreporting due to a lack of a widely…
Medical Child Abuse
Medical child abuse (MCA) occurs when a caregiver falsifies signs and symptoms resulting in a child receiving unnecessary and harmful or potentially harmful medical care. Like other conditions, MCA can…
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
Youth who are at risk for or who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation (CSEC) have specialized health care needs. Their experiences are often unrecognized, even with regular contact with pediatric…
Pediatric Physical Abuse
This article will discuss an evidence-based approach when evaluating a young child presenting with concern for abusive visceral trauma. The types of pediatric visceral injuries along with salient features will…
Child Sexual Abuse
A comprehensive overview of child sexual abuse includes risk factors, presentation for medical evaluation, disclosure of sexual abuse, child sexual behaviors, medical evaluation, outcomes, and prevention. The authors give practical…
Prenatal diagnosis of familial 46,X,del(X)(q27.1) with an Xq27.1-q28 deletion and an Xp22.33 microduplication in an asymptomatic mother carrier
A 36-year-old, gravida 3, para 1, woman underwent amniocentesis at 20 weeks of gestation because of advanced maternal age. Amniocentesis revealed a karyotype of 46,X,del(X)(q27.1)[18]/45,X[2]/47,X,del(X) (q27.1),+del(X) (q27.1)[1] ( Fig. 1 )….
Rapid prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome in a fetus with bilateral pleural effusion and hydrops fetalis in the early second trimester by quantitative fluorescent polymerase chain reaction using the DNA extracted from uncultured amniocytes
A 37-year-old, primigravid woman underwent amniocentesis at 16 weeks of gestation because of bilateral pleural effusion in the fetus and a high risk (1:31) result of trisomy 21 determined by…
Successful management of a pregnancy women with sudden onset of acute pancreatitis: A case report and literature review
Abstract Objective Hypertriglyceridemia (HTG) is a rare cause of acute pancreatitis (AP) in pregnancies and has emerged as an aggravating factor of severe pancreatitis. To enhance the diagnosis and management…
Diagnosis and treatment of a serous cystadenofibroma-like tumor potentially arising from urinary tract endometriosis: A case report
Abstract Objective Urinary tract endometriosis affects 0.3–12 % of all cases of endometriosis. Medications have limited efficacy in treating advanced disease. Serous cystadenofibroma is a rare benign variant of ovarian epithelial…
Overcoming extensive abdominal adhesions: Utilizing mini-wound techniques for successful laparoscopic staging in cancer surgery
Abstract Objective Using an ultra-mini-wound technique to dissect the adhesion surrounding the umbilicus port site aiding laparoscopic staging surgery for treating a woman with an early-stage endometrioid endometrial cancer (E-EC)…
