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Children (Basel)
January 2025
Pediatric Research Center, New Children's Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki University Hospital, 00290 Helsinki, Finland.
Background: Recombinant growth hormone (rhGH) has been used since 1985 to treat growth hormone (GH)-induced short stature, typically associated with transient adverse events. However, lipoatrophy, characterized by irreversible damage to subcutaneous fat, was first reported in 1999 and linked to antibody formation. In 2021, localized lipoatrophy was observed in 14.
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January 2025
Neurosurgery Department, Al-Ahli Hospital, Hebron, 00970, Palestine.
Echinococcus larval stage or a hydatid cyst, a parasitic disease that passes from animals to humans. Echinococcus granulosus and, less commonly, Echinococcus multilocularis species cause the disease. Intracranial echinococcosis is rare, with an incidence of approximately 1%-2%.
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January 2025
Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Rheumatology, Institute of Pediatrics, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland.
Background: Loeys-Dietz syndrome (LDS) is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous, autosomal dominant aortic aneurysm syndrome with widespread systemic involvement. We present the case of a 16.5-year-old girl with LDS type 2 (LDS2) caused by a heterozygous pathogenic variant, c.
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January 2025
Department of Oncology, Xiang'an Hospital of Xiamen University, Xiamen, People's Republic of China.
This case report describes a 4.5-year-old girl diagnosed with a rare Undifferentiated Small Round Cell Sarcoma (USRCS) originating in the parapharyngeal space with multiple lung metastases. Diagnostic workups, including imaging, immunohistochemistry, and genetic sequencing, identified the tumor as an unclassified subtype of USRCS.
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September 2022
Department of Paediatric Neurosurgery and Craniofacial Surgery, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Kochi, Kerala, India.
We report the case of a 5-year-old girl with a rare P-null phenotype who presented for a neurosurgical procedure at our center. The case is unique as this patient was one of the two P-null phenotype cases reported in India and we report how we could successfully arrange a rare blood unit for her. As it was challenging to find a donor for her, autologous blood was collected.
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