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Patient Story Print Section Listen A 12-month-old girl presents to your office with 1-day history of fever and increasing swelling and redness behind her left ear. On examination, the left…
Patient Story Print Section Listen A 12-month-old girl presents to your office with 1-day history of fever and increasing swelling and redness behind her left ear. On examination, the left…
Patient Story Print Section Listen An 11-year-old girl with a history of psoriasis presented to her pediatrician with a 2-day history of ear pain and drainage from her right ear…
Patient Story Print Section Listen A 7-year-old boy is brought to the pediatrician’s office with a rough red rash on his trunk (Figures 28-1 and 28-2) along with fever and…
Patient Story Print Section Listen A 14-year-old boy complains of unilateral nasal obstruction for the past several months of gradual onset. On examination of the nose, a nasal polyp is…
Patient Story Print Section Listen A 3-year-old girl is brought by her parents to an urgent care facility after a day of crying, irritability, scant otorrhea, and frequent pulling of…
Patient Story Print Section Listen A 6-month-old child is brought to the pediatrician with a history of tearing, drainage, crusting of the eyelashes and lids, perhaps of both eyes and…
Patient Story Print Section Listen A 7-year-old boy comes into the office with his mother with complaint of a fleshy growth in front of his left ear (Figure 20-1). It…
HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS Print Section Listen HERPETIC GINGIVOSTOMATITIS Primary herpetic gingivostomatitis is caused by herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) infection in children and characterized by painful vesicular lesions of the…
Community Story Print Section Listen Common River is a US-based nongovernmental organization (NGO) implementing a community development program in Aleta Wondo, Ethiopia. This NGO is founded on the principle of…
Patient Story Print Section Listen A 5-month-old infant is brought to your office by her mother. The mother reports that the child has a “lazy eye.” On further inquiry, the…