Muscle Weakness

Conoscere per riconoscere: una forma rara di emicrania

N. Di Dio, J. Lasagna, A. Gazzolo

2026/4 — pag. 259-260 — DOI

A 12-year-old competitive athlete was urgently hospitalised following an acute episode of severe headache, confusion, speech difficulties (dysarthria) and muscle weakness that began during physical activity. Despite the initial symptoms and some temp...

Saper riconoscere la dermatomiosite giovanile

Gennaro B, Marino S, Marino S, Tardino L, Sciuto C, Privitera G, Barone P, La Spina M

2026/4 — pag. 104-105 — DOI

The case reports the diagnostic process of an 8-year-old girl presenting with progressive proximal muscle weakness, fatigue and frequent falls. The clinical challenge required a careful differential diagnosis between metabolic myopathies, muscular dy...

Sapere riconoscere la discheratosi congenita

Ballaben A.

2026/1 — pag. 54-56 — DOI

Ginevra was examined at age 14 for neurological and inflammatory symptoms (paresthesia, muscle weakness and xerostomia). The clinical picture remained unclear until the discovery of severe onychodystrophy, which had been hidden for years by nail p...

Senza forze e senza riflessi: non puoi perdere tempo!

Amato M, Marino S, Scirè Calabrisotto S, Catalano D, Stancanelli G, La Spina M

2025/10 — pag. 272-273 — DOI

The paper describes the case of an 8-year-old girl presenting with gait disturbance, paresthesias, weakness, absent reflexes and hoarseness. MRI and CSF findings promptly supported a diagnosis of Guillain-Barré syndrome. The patient rapidly developed...

Una vecchietta di quattro anni: la dermatomiosite

Gozzi A, Benelli E, Minute M, Strafella MS, Martelossi S.

2023/1 — pag. 53-54 — DOI

The Authors describe the case of a 4-year-old girl with aging appearance of the skin of her hands and feet finally diagnosed as dermatomyositis. The capillaroscopy was a crucial step in the diagnostic process....

Approccio pratico al bambino “sempre stanco”

Gortani G.

2022/3 — pag. 168-172 — DOI

Fatigue is a common, nonspecific symptom with many different aetiologies. The term “fatigue” can be used to describe muscular weakness, difficulty or inability to initiate activity (subjective sense of weakness), reduced capacity to maintain activity...

Quando la sindrome di Guillain-Barré è più dolore che ipostenia

F. Marchetti, M. Roveran, F. Currò, M. Mainetti, C. Muratori, L. Casadio, P. Ricciardelli

2020/3 — pag. 179-182

The paper reports the case of a 4-year-old girl who had been suffering from progressive pain in her legs and back and impossibility of walking for 10 days. The presence of a slight hyposthenia but with absence of patellar reflexes was observed. The...

Myasthenia gravis giovanile generalizzata

L. Di Genova, A. Paglino

2019/2 — pag. 27-29

Porfiria acuta intermittente: un caso "eccezionale"

C. Rosafio, P. Bergonzini, S. Marchini, S. Leoni, C. Fusco, S. Colli, A. Pietrangelo, P. Paolucci, P. Ventura, L. Iughetti

2014/7

Una mielite di origine incerta

G. Barbato, G. Monti, L. Leoni, M. Marchesi, E. Pavlidis, G. Cantalupo, F. Pisani, N. Carano

2011/6 — pag. 397-398

Transverse myelitis is a neurologic syndrome caused by acute or subacute inflammation of the spinal cord. Since its incidence is about 0.5/100,000 children/year, transverse mielitis is included in the group of rare diseases. The pathogenesis of the d...

Distrofia muscolare di Duchenne: si può fare di più

2010/10 — pag. 663-664

La dermatomiosite giovanile

M. Lazzerini

2003/8

Una bambina di 9 anni con stanchezza progressiva e areflessiaParte prima

G. Bartolozzi

2003/2