You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Epilogue
Think about the ‘C’ (in custard and crackers)
  1. Jane Metz1,
  2. Izidora Holjar-Erlic2,
  3. Alison Kelly3,
  4. Athimalaipet, V Ramanan3
  1. 1 Department of Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol, UK
  2. 2 Department of Radiology, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol, UK
  3. 3 Department of Rheumatology, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol & Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath, UK
  1. Correspondence to Prof Athimalaipet and V Ramanan, Department of Rheumatology, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children & Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath, UK; avramanan{at}hotmail.com

Abstract

Case history A 9-year-old girl with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) was admitted for a flare-up of chronic recurrent multi-osteomyelitis (CRMO). She complained of leg pain over 3 months, was unable to weight-bear and had a petechial rash for 10 days. She had bleeding gums and a long history of only eating custard and crackers.

CRMO was diagnosed at age 3. She’d had shoulder, knee, and ankle involvement, two courses of pamidronate (2011 and 2015) and was currently taking simple analgesia.

On examination, she was afebrile, with a widespread petechial rash, most pronounced over her ankles/shins. Her knees and ankles were tender; her ankles had small medial effusions.

Investigations Mild hypochromic anaemia, normal platelets, white cell countand coagulation. CRP 16. Figures 1 and 2 show her knee radiograph and MRI, respectively.

Figure 1
Figure 1
Figure 2
Figure 2

Question 1 Give four differential diagnoses of petechial rash, bleeding gums and leg pain in an afebrile child?

Question 2 Name three behaviours associated with ASD with health consequences.

Answers to the questions are on page 02

ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS ON PAGE 02

  • scurvy
  • autism
  • vitamin C

https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2017-312993

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.