Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics

Case Report

Three cases of pulmonary and/or intestinal tuberculosis in adolescents

Jung Hye Byeon, Yoon Lee, Jin Chul Lee, Young Yoo, Kee Hyoung Lee, Kwang Chul Lee, Ji Tae Choung, Soo Youn Ham, Chul Whan Kim

Clin Exp Pediatr. 2007;50(11):1134-1138. Published online November 15, 2007

Since the tuberculosis (TB) in adolescents has unique clinical characteristics, special attention should be paid to this age group. Adolescents are more susceptible to developing TB disease and more likely to have cavitary pulmonary disease. Also, adolescent patients with TB more frequently present with extrapulmonary disease. We report three adolescents with active pulmonary and/or intestinal TB: one had pulmonary and...

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A Case of Renal Abscess in Healthy Child

Jin Yeong Jeong, Young Seo Park, Soo Youn Ham

Clin Exp Pediatr. 2000;43(7):1012-1015. Published online July 15, 2000

Renal abscess is rare in children and presents varying features which often lead to delay or error in diagnosis. Fever, lumbar pain, abdominal pain and occasional flank mass are the usual presenting complaints but a high degree of suspicion is important for the early detection of renal abscess. Hematogenous seeding of the kidney or ascending infection from the urinary collecting system are two proposed...

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Acute Alcohol Intoxication in a Child

Mee Jeong Lee, Hyunmi Kim, Sang Gyu Park, Soo Youn Ham

Clin Exp Pediatr. 2000;43(4):588-591. Published online April 15, 2000

Information on ethyl alcohol intoxication in children is scarce. It is generally believed that children are more vulnerable to ethyl alcohol intoxication than adults. However, little information has been published on the effects of ethanol in the pediatric age group. The incidence of hypoglycemia and convulsions following ethanol intoxication is not known. We report a fatal case of acute alcohol...

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