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Infant’s seizures and skull fracture could point to child abuse
A 5-month-old Hispanic male presented to the emergency department (ED) at a children’s hospital in the Northeast United States directly from his daycare after caretakers witnessed 2 shaking, seizure-like episodes. The episodes lasted 1 to 2 minutes in the setting of a fever as palpated by the parents.
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Effects of body modification are more than just skin deep
AAP’s first ever clinical report on body modification guides pediatricians on medical precautions and counseling practices.
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Learn to identify noncutaneous vascular anomalies
Education for pediatricians about vascular anomalies primarily focuses on cutaneous malformations and vascular tumors, but vascular anomalies also affect deeper tissues and organs.
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Latest on infant mortality in the United States
image description here For Contemporary Pediatrics, Dr Bobby Lazzara looks at an observational study published in PLoS Medicine that examined full term infant mortality and what the findings suggest pediatricians need to be doing.
 
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