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Cellulite orbitaria: una diagnosi a colpo d’occhio

Pasquali E, Iacono A, Farneti C, Romeo C, Marchetti F.

2025/2 — pag. 117-118 — DOI

A one-year-old girl presents with left orbital swelling during a fever after having been treated with antibiotic therapy for rhinitis and cough. The examination shows left eyelid oedema, a nearly closed eyelid fissure and mild facial asymmetry. The d...

Ematoma, infezione e difetto della coagulazione

Iorio RF, Bruzzese E

2025/2 — pag. 53-53 — DOI

Febrile limp in paediatric patients is often associated with septic arthritis, but alternative diagnoses must be considered. The paper reports the case of a 10-year-old boy with intermittent fever and persistent coxalgia. Imaging revealed multiple ab...

Malformazione polmonare congenita di tipo I con macrocisti Un caso di intervento prenatale e successiva lobectomia toracoscopica

Alboreto E, Borgia P, Florio A, Gallizia A, Perri K, Salvati P, Torre M, Paladini D, Sacco O

2025/2 — pag. 34-36 — DOI

Congenital Pulmonary Airway Malformations (CPAM) are rare lung development anomalies characterised by varying-sized cysts. The majority of affected newborns are asymptomatic at birth, while a small percentage may experience respiratory difficulties. ...

La cellulite orbitaria in età pediatrica: una proposta di gestione diagnostico-terapeutica

Zama D, Altimari L, Ruscelli M, Pierantoni L, Gennari G, Toni F, Campoli C, Presutti L, Lanari M.

2024/1 — pag. 17-25 — DOI

The incidence of orbital cellulitis in the paediatric age is around 1.6/100,000 cases per year. Most cases are mild and limited to the preseptal space; however, severe and complicated cases are possible. Paediatricians should be able to recognize hig...

Una mastite neonatale bilaterale da Staphylococcus aureus meticillino-resistente

Barbato R, Troisi A, Biserna L, Fontijn S, Ratta A, Marchetti F

2023/2 — pag. 18-20 — DOI

Neonatal mastitis with possible abscess complication is relatively rare. The most common causal agent is Staphylococcus aureus. The paper describes the case of a newborn of 8 days of life, with fever and bilateral mastitis. The newborn was treated wi...

“Sembrava un lombrico”: la cisti del rafe mediano

Romano S, Conti R.

2023/1 — pag. 55-58 — DOI

The Authors describe the rare (and striking) case of a 4-year-old child with an infected median raphe cyst....

“Sembrava un lombrico”: la cisti del rafe mediano

Romano S, Conti R

2023/1 — pag. 17-17 — DOI

The Authors describe the rare (and striking) case of a 4-year-old child with an infected median raphe cyst....

Neonato pretermine con lesione epatica

Buffoni I, Mallamaci M, Buratti S

2021/3 — pag. 75-77 — DOI

Umbilical venous catheterization (UVC) is a common procedure performed in neonatal intensive care units. Inadvertent extravasation of parenteral nutrition (PN) into the liver parenchyma causing a fluid collection defined as TPN-oma is a well-known co...

Sembra un gozzo, ma non è: la cisti del dotto tireoglosso

S. Amoroso

2020/10 — pag. 259-259 — DOI

Thyreoglossal duct cyst (TDC) is the most frequent cervical malformation that usually presents as a painless, well-defined swelling during paediatric age. In this report, the Author describes a 9-year-old girl who was diagnosed with TDC that caused a...

Gli ascessi retrofaringei

L. Bernardini, L. Serra, E. Calamelli, P. Bottau, D. Silvestrini, A. Pession

2020/3 — pag. 161-166

The retropharyngeal abscess is a rare pathology nonetheless it has always to be considered in presence of fever (hyperpyrexia) and neck stiffness. In fact, it can be burdened by an important morbidity and mortality, however the advent of antibiotic...

Una mastite neonatale

I. Del Rizzo, M. Tubaro, M. Robazza, R. Dall’Amico

2020/2 — pag. 33-34

Ascesso appendicolare in lattante come causa di febbre di origine sconosciuta

A. Zavallone, F. Comaita, L. Azzoni, L. Cantalupi, D. Luotti, I. Santini, A. Ramon Gonzalez, V. Mondino, F. Rossi, V. Gabriele

2017/9

Evaluation of abdominal pain in children can be often difficult. Acute appendicitis is the most frequent disease in children population that often requires a surgical intervention. Only 2% of operated children belong to the group younger than 3 years...

Piomiosite 2016: ancora una sfida per il pediatra

V. Moressa, S. Naviglio, S. Pastore, A. Taddio, A. Ventura

2016/8 — pag. 495-499

Pyomyositis is a subacute, deep bacterial infection of skeletal muscles. Originally described in tropical areas, mainly in malnourished and immunocompromised subjects (“tropical pyomyositis”), it has been subsequently reported with an increasing fr...

Un ascesso mammario non necessario

S. Ghirardo

2016/8

Un problema fra capo e collo

C. Stocco, M. Bramuzzo, M. Gregori

2016/2 — pag. 123-126

Retropharyngeal abscess is a suppurative infection of deep neck spaces that rarely complicates upper respiratory infections. It most commonly occurs in children under five years of age. The clinical picture can be aspecific, especially in infants,...

Un problema fra capo e collo

C. Stocco, M. Bramuzzo, M. Gregori

2016/2

Troppe artriti per Erlis

I. Mula

2015/7

Complicanze addominali dello shunt ventricolo-peritoneale

E. Zanelli, R. Giorgi

2012/6

Ventriculo-peritoneal shunting remains the most widely used neurosurgical procedure for the management of hydrocephalus. Intraabdominal complications after its insertion are frequently located near the peritoneal end of the shunt catheter, causin...

Un lattante con torcicollo

F.M. Bosetti, M. Bianciotto, M. Conrieri, A.F. Urbino

2012/2

Empiema pleurico nei tempi del vaccino antipneumococcico eptavalentePorpora trombocitopenica idiopatica: la lezione (di rigore) ingleseFrenulo corto: tagliare o non tagliare?Dolore toracico nel bambino: raramente “mal di cuore”Diabete di tipo 1: meglio curarlotanto e subito (come si fa in italia, del resto)Reflusso gastroesofageo, PPI e anti-H2: liberiamo i lattanti dal nuovo flagelloAnche i neonati vanno liberati dal nuovo flagello (?)

2012/1 — pag. 11-12

Una sinusite complicata

G. Gorlato, S. Pastore, M. Chinello, D. Sanabor, F. Marchetti

2011/2

We report the case of a 13-year-old girl with a one-month-and-an-half story of fever, rhinorrhoea, headache and vomiting. Initially neurological assessment resulted normal and a diagnosis of acute sinus infection was made. Since the patient worsened,...

Empiema pleurico: descrizione di un caso di difficile risoluzione

F. Antonelli, M. Aschettino, C. Santoro, P. Siani

2008/4

È utile l’urokinasi intrapleurica nel trattamento dell’empiema? Una risposta da una esperienza concreta

L. Bogdanovits, E. Barbi, F. Marchetti, N. Giurici, L. Ronfani, A. Ventura

2007/2 — pag. 89-102

The use of intrapleural fibrynolisis in the treatment of empyema shortens hospital stay and is recommended by international guidelines in children with a B grade of evidence. Even though only few randomized studies have addressed this issue in limi...

Empiema pleurico in pediatrial’empiema pleurico nel bambino: un approccio a più voci

M. Canciani, M. Don, B. del Pin, L. Fasoli, T. Guerrera, A. de Candia, A. Morelli

2007/2 — pag. 89-102

Parapneumonic effusion and empyema (the presence of pus in the pleural space) have an incidence of 3.3 per 100,000. An empyema could be suspected if a child remains pyrexial or unwell 48 hours after adequate antibiotic treatment; examination should...

Dalla clinica all'esame strumentale: un ragazzo con sepsi e dolore alla gamba

Z. Cannioto, S. Storelli, F. Zennaro, J. Schleef, F. Marchetti

2006/2

Valutazione quantitativa dell’idrocefaloneonatale mediante tc volumetricacon ricostruzioni tridimensionali

F. Zennaro, R. Ammar, P. Guastalla, M. Quercini

2000/5 — pag. 325-328

In low-weight new-borns with hydrocephalus, neither the pressure of liquor nor the size of intraventricular diameters provides reliable information to proceed to a precise calculation the amount of liquor to be removed in case of emergency without...