A case from the library
Ear pain and discharge, now with double vision in an 8-year-old girl
Infectious DiseaseMedium
Lily Anderson
8 years · Female
Vitals
- Heart rate
- 108 bpm
- Blood pressure
- 104/64 mmHg
- Resp. rate
- 20 /min
- SpO₂
- 99%
- Temperature
- 100.4 °F
How hard it is
A real-world presentation with one or two atypical features. You'll need targeted questions and the right test to narrow the differential.
The diagnosis is not shown here. Finding it is the case.
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Source
Adapted from a case report published in Case Reports in Otolaryngology, under the CC BY 4.0 license. The patient's name and some details are invented; the clinical picture follows the report. The report names the diagnosis.
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