A 14-year-old female presented to the Pediatric Emergency Department (PED) with one week of intermittent right lower quadrant (RLQ) abdominal pain. The pain was sudden, sharp, and moderate to severe in intensity, but it spontaneously resolved and was not present at the time of evaluation. She reported no urinary symptoms, and the pain…
Read MoreAn 8-year-old healthy male presents with non-bloody vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, fatigue and subjective fevers for the last 4 days. ..
Read MoreA 9-year-old boy with a history of oppositional defiant disorder, as well as prior admissions to a psychiatric hospital for behavioral concerns, presents to the Emergency Department (ED) of an academic children’s hospital with acute agitation. The patient is brought to the ED via ambulance by emergency medical services and police...
Read MoreA previously healthy ten-year-old girl presented to the pediatric emergency department, accompanied by her mother, with two days of lower abdominal pain and urinary frequency and urgency...
Read MoreA 21-month-old male presented to the emergency department with right upper extremity pain after a fall from a chair. He was initially discharged after unrevealing x-rays of the right upper extremity. However, after being discharged, the patient and his mother were called back in to the emergency department after an attending pediatric radiologist overread the xrays and identified a posterior fat pad…
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