Convulsions with Gastroenteritis: Reflections on some Cases and Tentative Diagnostic Score.

Background: Since 1980 a form of benign convulsion during mild gastroenteritis, called Convulsion With Gastroenteritis (CWG) has been described. However diagnostic criteria have not been well defined yet given the similarity of CWG with other diseases of young age and therefore diagnosis is done by exclusion, creating anxiety in parents.

Objective And Methods: We here report a series of cases admitted at our hospital and, making a review analysis of data available, propose a diagnostic score (CWGDS) in order to rapidly individuate the disease from history.

Osteoid osteoma mimicking monoarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis in a girl.

Osteoid osteoma (OO) is a benign osteogenic neoplasm, usually affecting children and young adults, that is typically characterized by nocturnal pain and response to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. OO is frequently misdiagnosed because it mimics juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), bone infection or malignancy. Herein we report the case of a girl who presented with chronic monoarthritis of the knee mimicking JIA.