Wilms’ Tumor
Despite being able to ignore many odd occurrences in the house, there are several things that will classically attract acute attention from a parent: fever; a child “not eating;” not pooping for a day; lumps and bumps; and rashes. The…
Category Genitourinary
Ovarian Inguinal Hernia
Have you ever seen a condition or complaint so many times that you feel that there is no way it can surprise you? Yeah… me neither. I am positive every condition can humble us at one point or another. That…
Renal Papillary Necrosis and Sickle Cell Disease
Blood shooting out of the urethra will catch people’s attention! While it may be due to a relatively benign issue, there are a number of considerations that immediately come to our minds: Renal Trauma, Abdominal Trauma, Renal Stones, UTI. While…
Post-Streptococcal Glomerulonephritis
Often our clinical role is similar to that of a detective. We carefully search a patient’s history and physical exam to discover the obscure clues that help us to provide excellent care. Is that pyoderma gangrenosum? We need to consider…
Testicular Workup for Ischemia and Suspected Torsion (TWIST) Score
A New Year begins. With it, personal resolutions are being made throughout the lands. If you have yet to select a worthwhile New Year’s Resolution, join me in striving toward an improvement goal that can benefit ourselves as well as…
Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) Algorithm
It often seems that we are on the search for the omnipresent Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) in the Pediatric ED. “You have fever? Let’s check the urine.” “You have belly pain? Let’s check the urine.” “You think your urine smells funny?…
Pediatric Behcet’s Disease
There are numerous conditions that we all learned about in medical school, but then quickly allowed to fall to the deep recesses of our mind (some of us may find to difficult to find them in those chasms now). While…