Introdução: As parasitoses sistémicas (PS) são ainda uma causa frequente de hospitalização em África e nalguns países mediterrânicos. O nosso Serviço reúne estas duas características, uma vez que recebe numerosas crianças oriundas dos Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa (PALOP) e se insere numa área onde residem comunidades imigrantes com necessidades de saúde especiais.Material e métodos: Estudo retr...
Spondylodiscitis in childhood is rare and has non-specific clinical features, requiring a high index of suspicion.The authors describe a nine month-old female infant, who presented at the emergency room (ER) with a torticollis for four days, without fever or trauma. Cervical X-rays were normal, and she received symptomatic treatment. Six days after, she returned to the ER with the same torticollis and also irri...
The term neutropenia concerns the reduction of the amount of circulating neutrophils in peripheric blood. The Chronic Benign Neutropenia of Childhood (CBNC) is characterized by the presence of a circulating neutrophils total number (absolute count) below 1,5 x 10(9)L, for over a six-month period. The diagnosis is established when the laboratorial changes occur during the first two years of life, without previou...
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