The accuracy of fatty liver index for the screening of overweight and obese children for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in resource limited settings.

Background: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has become the most common liver disease among children with a higher prevalence among obese. Fatty liver index (FLI), an algorithm derived to screen NAFLD using the waist circumference, body mass index, triglyceride and gamma glutamyl-transferase concentration was rarely investigated in Asian paediatric population. Since each component is routinely measured in clinical practice, it is feasible to measure FLI even in resource limited settings.

Obturator internus and externus muscle abscess caused by methicillin-resistant in a 6-year-old boy: A case report.

Obturator abscess is a rare condition in children which usually occurs commonly in tropical countries. Because of its rarity, vague symptomatology and a lack of focus about this condition, the diagnosis of obturator abscess is commonly delayed or missed. Hence, physicians should be familiar with this condition and have a high index of suspicion when a patient presents with fever, pain in the thigh, hip or abdomen and a limp on the affected side which are considered as the classic clinical triad of obturator abscess.