A Traumatic Quinceañera: Acute Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome in an Adolescent Girl.

A 15-year-old girl presented with 3 days of progressive abdominal distention, pain, and bilious hematemesis. Her symptoms began after her quinceañera, during which she wore a tight corset. On examination, she was thin and had significant abdominal distention and pain.

Ovarian lesion volumes as a screening tool for malignancy in adolescent ovarian tumors.

Background: Preoperative evaluation of ovarian tumors for malignancy is essential to determine appropriate treatment. Our study assessed the utility of ovarian lesion volumes to screen for malignancy in adolescent ovarian lesions.

Methods: A retrospective chart review of adolescent patients (8-18years) who underwent an ovarian operation from January 2008 to December 2012.

Extrarenal Wilms tumor: a case report and review of the literature.

Extrarenal Wilms tumors are extremely rare with only isolated case reports in the pediatric literature. We present the case of a 2-year old boy who presented with a large abdominal mass and constipation. Pathologic diagnosis of the tumor was extrarenal Wilms tumor (ERWT) with favorable histology.

Multimodality imaging of tracheobronchial disorders in children.

The trachea and bronchial airways in children are subject to compromise by a number of extrinsic and intrinsic conditions, including congenital, inflammatory, infectious, traumatic, and neoplastic processes. Stridor, wheezing, and respiratory distress are the most common indications for imaging of the airway in children. Frontal and lateral chest and/or neck radiography constitute the initial investigations of choice in most cases.

Basidiomycetous fungal Inonotus tropicalis sacral osteomyelitis in X-linked chronic granulomatous disease.

Osteomyelitis is a common clinical manifestation of chronic granulomatous disease, a disorder of phagocytic function. Fungal organisms account for a significant proportion of these infections. We describe the clinical presentation and subsequent destructive sacral osteomyelitis with a basidiomycetous mold, Inonotus tropicalis, in a patient with an X-linked chronic granulomatous disease.