Pediatrics

A 5-year-old boy with no significant history presented to the emergency department with a 3-day history of progressively worsening difficulty with urination, poor urinary stream, and urinary retention....

Two unrelated male neonates were born at term in the same hospital on the same day. Both mothers had prenatal care established in the first trimester, and both pregnancies were uncomplicated.

An 8-year-old boy presented to the emergency department (ED) with a 2-day history of acute worsening of oral cavity pain. His father noted a bright pink swelling over the boy’s hard palate at the midline,...

A 2-year-old boy, who was adopted from Haiti as an infant, presented with his parents to our pediatrics clinic with a 3-week history of intermittent constipation and a 1-day history of emesis.

A 2-day-old boy was brought to the well-baby nursery with edema of the right thigh. There was no abnormality noted at birth.

In this article, Scott T. Vergano, MD, writes about the role of the primary care provider in children and youth with cerebral palsy, the risk of cardiovascular diseases associated with medications used in...

A 10-year-old boy with no significant medical history presented for evaluation after an unwitnessed fall forward from rollerblades onto asphalt. The patient reported no loss of consciousness after the fall...

An 11-year-old girl presented to the emergency department with a 3-day history of left lower abdominal pain, blood-streaked emesis, and anorexia. She denied history of fever, weight loss, diarrhea, dysuria,...

Pediatrician Scott T. Vergano, MD, details three top pediatrics-related papers you may have missed in October 2022, including papers on screening for anxiety in children and adolescents, firearm-related...

A 12-month-old Black boy presented to his outpatient pediatrician after having had an episode of seizure activity the night before.