This content is machine translated Schizophrenic disorders in children and adolescents. Early detection improves prognosis Schizophrenic disorders in childhood and adolescence are rare but serious conditions. Diagnosis is a challenge because the symptoms often develop insidiously and – compared to those of adults – are…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated An 18 month old girl with redness in the diaper area Red bottom – and now? Case report: The family presents to the emergency department with their 18-month-old daughter because there has been redness in the diaper area for weeks that has not responded to treatment…
View Post 11 min This content is machine translated Alternative medicine and atopic eczema Scientific data on the individual methods Complementary medicine methods are used by many sufferers of atopic eczema, although scientific data often do not exist. This is especially true for homeopathy, treatment with Schuessler salts and bioresonance…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Infantile hemangiomas Development, course, complications and diagnostics Infantile hemangioma has a characteristic course with a growth, arrest, and regression phase. Regression potential exists until the onset of puberty. 70% of hemangiomas completely regress without therapy by the…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Twelve-year-old girl with skin abnormality on thigh Skin colored subcutaneous papules – what is it? Case report: A twelve-year-old girl presented with a skin-colored change on the medial right thigh that had been present since early childhood. This was basically asymptomatic, but seemed to have…
View Post 10 min This content is machine translated Application examples for therapeutic success Acute treatment of atopic eczema in childhood In clinical practice, besides mild forms, one is regularly confronted with three characteristic eczema situations: exacerbated (whole body) eczema, chronic (flexural/hand) eczema and nummular (superinfected) atopic eczema. All eczema situations…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Young cancer patients Intensive treatment until death A cross-sectional study from California shows: Young patients with cancer receive very intensive medical care (chemotherapy, hospitalizations, emergency room or intensive care unit admissions) in the last months and even…
View Post 11 min This content is machine translated Current therapy concepts Acute leukemias in children and adolescents Childhood leukemias are treated in a risk-adapted manner and are curable in the majority of cases. In acute lymphoblastic leukemia, one of the most important prognostic factors – in addition…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated Acute leukemia in elderly patients Ethical Aspects of Therapy Decisions and Advance Care Planning Ethical conflicts in determining treatment may arise when there are differing views about achievable and reasonable goals of therapy. The first step of an ethically well-founded treatment is to realistically…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Blisters and erosions in a newborn baby Alarm symptoms that require rapid assignment Case report: An eight-day-old boy presents with new onset of blisters since three days. The child is in good general condition and afebrile. There were no abnormal findings in the…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Girl at the age of four weeks with dynamic skin changes Red spots on the face – further action? History: The girl in Figures 1 and 2 first presented to our pediatric dermatology consultation at four weeks of age. At birth, he said, only very discrete whitish spots with…
