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Causes of Unprovoked Pediatric Seizures -  Epilepsy Syndromes - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm 
Infantile:
 • Benign
of Unprovoked Pediatric ... - Differential ... Focal Epilepsies ... Unprovoked #Seizures #Differential ... #Causes #Peds #Pediatrics
What is a Boxer’s fracture?? Fracture of the 4th or 5th metacarpal neck
 - Common in
Fracture of the ... Symptoms/exam findings ... part of hand - Focal ... – compartment syndrome ... Certain radiologic findings
Reflex Testing - Causes of Hyporeflexia and Hyperreflexia
Focal Hyporeflexia: 
 • Radiculopathy, Mononeuropathy, Polyneuropathy, Acute stroke,
Guillain-Barré syndrome ... : • Delayed finding ... stroke, Delayed finding ... Testing #Causes #differential ... diagnosis #table #neurology
Causes of Pediatric Constipation - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Dietary / Functional:
 • Insufficient Volume / Bulk
Neurologic:
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Causes of Pediatric ... Constipation - Differential ... Volume / Bulk Neurologic ... Guillain-Barré Syndrome ... #Causes #Peds #Pediatrics
Liver Abscess - Differential Diagnosis
Pyogenic:
 • Hepatobiliary
 • Colonic
 • Bacteremia
Entamoeba histolytica:
 • Fecal/oral
 • Colitis
Liver Abscess - Differential ... histolytica: • Fecal ... if rupture • MRI ... , US, serology ... Liver #Abscess #Differential
Causes of Pediatric Seizures - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Infantile:
 • Benign Focal Epilepsy of Infancy
 • West
Causes of Pediatric ... Seizures - Differential ... Focal Epilepsies ... Seizures #Epilepsy #Differential ... #Causes #Peds #Pediatrics
Algorithm for the Evaluation of Chronic Diarrhea (< 7 days)
Exclude:
1. Causes of acute diarrhea
2. Lactose intolerance
3.
Irritable bowel syndrome ... Systemic disease - Fecal ... barium, CT, or MR ... fat Increased fecal ... workup #diagnosis #differential
Vertebral Body Abnormalities

A sheet of common (and uncommon) vertebral body findings, because a completely “normal” spine
vertebral body findings ... Vertebra Hurler Syndrome ... Morquio Syndrome ... Plana Compression Fracture ... Vertebrae #diseases #differential
Management Algorithm for Confusion
- Substrate verification, glucose, oxygen checks
- Toxidrome present
- Focal findings on neurologic examination
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Toxidrome present - Focal ... findings on neurologic ... CSF, thyroid, MRI
Prader-Willi Syndrome: Pathogenesis and clinical findings
 • Maternal uniparental disomy: inheriting 2 copies of maternal chromosome
Prader-Willi Syndrome ... Pathogenesis and clinical findings ... =>Prader-Willi Syndrome ... Incr Skeletal fractures ... pathophysiology #peds #pediatrics