Because of its relative prominence in infancy, a normal thymus gland can give the impression of cardiomegaly, a mediastinal mass or even lung pathology. Recognition of certain radiographic ...

Correspondence to Professor Deborah Murdoch-Eaton, Academic Unit of Medical Education, The Medical School, University of Sheffield, Beech Hill Road, Sheffield S10 2RX, UK; d.murdoch-eaton{at}sheffield ...

1 Division of Child Health, University of Nottingham, University Hospital Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK 2 Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry University of Nottingham, Queen’s ...

Clinical medicine is a holistic attempt to provide the best care for patients. What is the relevance of evidence-based child health and guidelines in informing clinical practice? In this review, ...

Neonatal encephalopathy (NE) presents as reduced consciousness, often with seizures, abnormal tone, feeding and respiratory difficulties. The most common cause is secondary to a hypoxic-ischaemic ...

1 King's College London, MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma. Division of Asthma, Allergy and Lung Biology. Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK ...

Every paediatrician, generalist or specialist, at every level and in every setting will come across the child or young person with disordered development and has a duty of care to ensure that ...

2 Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Correspondence to Nicholas D Embleton, Newcastle University, Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4LP, ...

2 Department of Paediatric Oncology, Royal Marsden NHS Trust, Sutton, UK 3 Co-founder of Paediatric Oncology Reference Team and Parent of Child Treated for Leukaemia, London, UK 4 Public and Patient ...

1 Department of Medical and Social Care Education, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK 2 School of Applied Social Science, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK 3 General and Adolescent Paediatrics ...

Point of care ultrasound (POCUS) is well established in adult emergency medicine and critical care. It is used for immediate diagnosis and evaluation of the impact of bedside interventions in the ...

Dr H Williams, Departments of Radiology Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham B4 6NH, UK; helen.williams{at}bch.nhs.uk Back pain in children and adolescents is probably much less ...