Fifteen-minute consultation: an approach to a child presenting to the emergency department with acute psychotic symptoms.

Presentation of a child in the A&E with altered behaviour including psychotic features is not unusual. New-onset psychotic symptoms in children pose a significant diagnostic challenge due to several reasons. First, primary psychotic conditions are uncommon in pre-pubertal children.

Tubercular meningitis in children: Clinical, pathological, and radiological profile and factors associated with mortality.

Context: Childhood tuberculosis is a major public health problem in developing countries with tubercular meningitis being a serious complication with high mortality and morbidity.

Aim: To study the clinicopathological as well as radiological profile of childhood tuberculous meningitis (TBM) cases.

Settings And Design: Prospective, observational study including children <14 years of age with TBM admitted in a tertiary care hospital from Western India.