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Painful swollen legs in a boy

PediatricsEasy

Yusuf Demir

5 years · Male

Vitals

Heart rate
112 bpm
Blood pressure
100/60 mmHg
Resp. rate
22 /min
SpO₂
99%
Temperature
99.5 °F

How hard it is

A textbook presentation with no red herrings. The standard history questions are enough to get you there.

The diagnosis is not shown here. Finding it is the case.

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Source

Adapted from a case report published in Journal of Medical Case Reports, 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.