A 6-year-old boy presents to the emergency department after a motor vehicle collision at 90 km/h. The child was properly restrained, had no loss of consciousness, and experienced 1 episode of emesis ...

Doctors palpate the abdomen to check certain organs and feel for atypical masses or tenderness. Palpating the abdomen is often part of an abdominal physical examination. A doctor may perform a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Functional abdominal pain disorders cause significant stress in children, driving high care use. New guidelines ...

Several definitions of paediatric abdominal obesity have been proposed but it is unclear whether they lead to similar results. We assessed the prevalence of abdominal obesity using five different ...

An otherwise healthy four-year-old boy was brought to the emergency department by his mother several hours after he had an unwitnessed fall at home. He had been playing with his friends, when they ...