title: Recurrent sepsis and gastrointestinal ulceration due to child abuse.
abstract: An 11 year old girl developed progressive upper gastrointestinal ulceration and recurrent episodes of intravenous catheter associated polymicrobial septicaemia. Evaluation failed to establish a cause. After exclusion of the parents and careful surveillance of the patient she improved, supporting the diagnosis of suspected child abuse (a form of Meadow's syndrome).
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010437:Peptic Ulcer / Q000209:etiology*; D012008:Recurrence; D018805:Sepsis / Q000209:etiology*