Primary pulmonary abscess is a rare but serious localized bacterial infection of the lung parenchyma, occurring without prior lung conditions like bronchiectasis or necrotizing pneumonia. We report the case of an 11-month-old child with a 22-day history of productive cough and fever, unresponsive to initial antibiotics. Clinical examination showed a stable, eupneic child with mild fever and reduced oxygen saturation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Colorectal cancer in children and adolescents is an exceptional condition. Its clinical symptoms are non-specific, leading to delayed diagnosis and poor prognosis.
Case Presentation: The present article reports the case of a 15-year-old child followed for acute lymphoblastic leukemia with a history of a grandfather operated on and followed for colorectal cancer.
Cystic malformations of the bile ducts are rare congenital disorders, with an incidence of 1/2000000 live births. Complication including the angiocholitis, chronic pancreatitis, progressive biliary cirrhosis, portal hypertension or gallbladder lithiases can reveal severe disorder. Spontaneous perforation is one of the rare complications described for the first time in 1934 by Weber.
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