The role of the primary care provider is to identify significant curves and decide which patients require imaging and when to refer.
An otherwise well girl aged 11 months presented to her general practitioner with an unusual lesion on her posterior neck.
Causes of paediatric nasal obstruction are diverse, and differentiating the benign from the worrisome can be challenging because of symptomatic overlap and non-specific clinical presentations.
Early use of these inexpensive and readily available tools can significantly affect important clinical outcomes for these young patients.
Recognising the signs of a hernia containing compromised contents is essential to prevent serious complications such as intestinal perforation, testicular atrophy and ovarian damage.
Undescended testis is a common condition; management in a timely fashion may reduce the risk of malignancy and infertility.
A boy aged one year and seven months was brought by his mother to the general practice clinic with a three-month history of recurrent wheezing, especially when active.
Breast symptoms are common in female and male adolescents and young adults, and most can be treated conservatively.
While paediatric cervical masses are most commonly benign and transient in nature, judicious consideration of red flag and congenital conditions is crucial.
Acute-onset walking difficulties in a six-year-old boy recovering from a viral upper respiratory tract infection.
In the absence of organic aetiology, childhood constipation is almost always functional and is often due to painful bowel movements that prompt the child to withhold stool.
The management of developmental dysplasia of the hip requires accurate diagnosis of the pathoanatomy and depends on the age of the child.
Within the first six years of life, 8.4% of girls and 1.7% of boys are diagnosed with a urinary tract infection.