(Copyright 1994, L. Yamamoto)
Case 1 - Toxic Infant With a Full Fontanelle
Case 2 - The Stomach Flu ? - The Target, Crescent, and Absent Liver Edge Signs
Case 3 - Abdominal Pain With a Negative Abdominal Examination
Case 4 - Persistent Abdominal Pain
Case 5 - Cervical Spine Malalignment - True or Pseudo Subluxation?
Case 6 - Diminished Breath Sounds and Air in the Chest
Case 7 - Hamman's Sign
Case 8 - Foreign Body Aspiration in a Child
Case 9 - Respiratory Distress: That's a Tension Pneumothorax, Isn't It?
Case 10 - Drooling, Stridor, and a Barking Cough: Croup??
Case 11 - Elbow Ossification Centers in a Child
Case 12 - Radiographic Examination of the Elbow - The Hourglass Sign
Case 13 - Child With a Sprained Wrist
Case 14 - A Hand Contusion
Case 15 - Monteggia's Injury
Case 16 - Galeazzi's Injury
Case 17 - Elbow Sprain in a Child
Case 18 - Salter-Harris
Case 19 - Swollen Elbow with a Normal X-Ray
Case 20 - Sever's Disease
(Copyright 1995, L. Yamamoto)
Case 1 - Hemoptysis Identifies an Esophageal Coin
Case 2 - Seizure and VSD in a 2-Month Old Infant
Case 3 - Wheezing and Cyanosis in a 16-Month Old
Case 4 - Ignoring an E.D. Nurse's Assessment
Case 5 - Tachypnea and Abdominal Pain
Case 6 - Wheezing and Respiratory Distress in a 7-Week Old
Case 7 - Recurrent Pneumonia
Case 8 - Recurrent Abdominal Pain and Vomiting in a 7-Year Old
Case 9 - A Second Look at a Coin in the Stomach
Case 10 - Thigh and Knee Pain in an Obese 10-Year Old
Case 11 - Occult Hip Injury - 18-Month Old Won't Bear Weight
Case 12 - Hip Pain in a Hefty 13-Year Old
Case 13 - Vomiting Following Reduction of Intussusception
Case 14 - Hematemesis in a 6-Day Old Infant
Case 15 - Hematochezia and Cold Symptoms in an Infant
Case 16 - Sweeping the Airway for a Foreign Body
Case 17 - Sudden Thigh Swelling in a 6-Week Old Infant
Case 18 - Test Your Skill in Reading Pediatric Elbows
Case 19 - Rule Out Epiglottitis
Case 20 - Test Your Skill in Reading Pediatric Lateral Necks
(Copyright 1995, L. Yamamoto)
Case 1 - Myocardial Failure in a 2-Month Old
Case 2 - Severe Chronic Lung Disease and Respiratory Distress
Case 3 - Ankle Injuries: A Sprained Ankle?
Case 4 - Foot Pain in Triage
Case 5 - Test Your Skill in Reading Pediatric Ankles
Case 6 - Aspirating the Ankle Joint
Case 7 - Hemoptysis and Anemia in a 12-Year Old
Case 8 - Dice Ingestion
Case 9 - Moyamoya Disease
Case 10 - Abdominal Pain with Faint Intra-Abdominal Calcifications
Case 11 - Respiratory Distress and Abdominal Distention
Case 12 - Severe Acute Chest Pain in an Adolescent
Case 13 - Acute Chest Pain in a Tall Slender Teenager
Case 14 - Severe Hypernatremia - Salt Poisoning
Case 15 - Severe Hyponatremia and Non-Reactive Pupils in a 3-Year Old
Case 16 - Failure to Thrive and Vomiting in a 1-Month Old
Case 17 - Bilious Vomiting in a 3-Month Old
Case 18 - Test Your Skill in Distinguishing Bowel Obstruction From Ileus
Case 19 - Abdominal Pain and the Peritoneal Fat Margins
Case 20 - Test Your Skill in Reading Pediatric Chest Radiographs
(Copyright 1996, L. Yamamoto)
Case 1 - Focal Seizure in a 5-Year Old
Case 2 - Bucket Handle and Corner Fractures
Case 3 - Tachypnea in a 2-Month Old
Case 4 - Pearl-Like Chest Calcifications
Case 5 - Test Your Skill In Reading More Pediatric Chest Radiographs
Case 6 - T.B. in the E.D.
Case 7 - Avoid This Airway Complication
Case 8 - Right Lower Quadrant Pain in an 13-Year Old Female
Case 9 - Periumbilical Abdominal Pain
Case 10 - Post-Surgical Febrile Seizure and Vomiting
Case 11 - Acute Knee Pain Following Trauma
Case 12 - Closed Reduction of a Dislocated Shoulder
Case 13 - Blunt Shoulder Trauma: Fracture, Dislocation, or AC Separation
Case 14 - Fractured Radius From a Fall, Rule-Out Foot Fracture
Case 15 - Osteoid Osteoma
Case 16 - A Limping 6-Year Old
Case 17 - Fever and Refusal to Walk In a 4-Year Old
Case 18 - The Toddler's Fracture: Accident or Child Abuse?
Case 19 - Adolescent Female With Hip Pain
Case 20 - Acute Hip Pain in a Sprinting Teen
(Copyright 1996, L. Yamamoto)
Case 1 - Fever With Neck Stiffness . . . Rule Out Meningitis?
Case 2 - Cervical Spine Radiographs
Case 3 - The Hangman's Fracture
Case 4 - The Jefferson Fracture
Case 5 - Other Cervical Spine Fractures
Case 6 - Intracranial Hypertension and Brain Herniation Syndromes
Case 7 - Intracranial Hemorrhages
Case 8 - Lethargy and Fever
Case 9 - Infant Skull Fractures
Case 10 - Lethargy and Vomiting Following Child Abuse
Case 11 - Hip Pain in an 11-Year Old
Case 12 - Abdominal/Hip Pain With Fever in a 2-Year Old
Case 13 - Hemoptysis in an 11-Year Old: Scimitar Syndrome
Case 14 - Pulmonary Sequestration
Case 15 - Near Drowning
Case 16 - CAST Syndrome
Case 17 - Gastric Dilatation in a 3-Week Old
Case 18 - Right-Sided Abdominal Pain in a 10-Year Old
Case 19 - Bowel Obstruction With Intraintestinal Sand
Case 20 - Membranous Croup
(Copyright 1999, L. Yamamoto)
Case 1 - Shoulder Pain After Throwing a Football
Case 2 - Fussiness Following Minor Trauma in an Infant
Case 3 - Vomiting and Coughing in a 3-Month Old with Weak Bones
Case 4 - Wrist Swelling in a Neonate
Case 5 - Elbow Swelling in a 2-Year Old with Liver Disease
Case 6 - Knee Sprain in a Teenager
Case 7 - Acute Knee Deformity
Case 8 - Sunrise View of the Knee
Case 9 - Orbital Injury
Case 10 - Orbital Pseudotumor
Case 11 - Chronic Lower Extremity Pain
Case 12 - Chest Pain in a 6-Year Old
Case 13 - Backache in a 16-Year Old
Case 14 - Bloody Diarrhea and Dehydration in a 5-Month Old
Case 15 - Hip and Knee Pain in a 4-Year Old
Case 16 - Forearm Deformity in a 4-Year Old
Case 17 - Recurrent Wheezing in an Infant
Case 18 - Appendicoliths
Case 19 - Difficulty Breathing Throughout Infancy
Case 20 - Recurrent Coins and Recurrent Respiratory Infections
(Copyright 2000, L. Yamamoto)
Case 1 - Fever and Upper Back Tenderness
Case 2 - A Growing Skull Fracture
Case 3 - Prolonged Cough and Fever
Case 4 - Proteus Syndrome
Case 5 - Urolithiasis
Case 6 - A Large Calcified Kidney Stone
Case 7 - Forearm Swelling, Pain, and Numbness Following Trauma
Case 8 - Multiple Trauma in a 2-Year Old
Case 9 - Herpes Encephalitis
Case 10 - A Complication of a Retropharyngeal Abscess
Case 12 - Painless Scrotal Swelling
Case 18 - Find the Intussusception Target and Crescent Signs
The remainder of Volume 7 is in progress. If you have any interesting cases that you would like to submit for inclusion in future volumes, please contact me by E-mail.
Thank you very much for your interest.
Loren Yamamoto, MD, MPH
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine
Loreny@hawaii.edu