title: Arm pain and fever as an unusual presentation of lobar pneumonia in a 3-year-old girl: case report.
abstract: Children with pneumonia presenting with extrathoracic pain, such as abdominal pain, have been previously described. In this report, we describe a 3-year-old girl with fever and right arm pain who was found to have an apical lobar pneumonia.
authors.affiliation: Section of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06504, USA. Kirsten.bechtel@yale.edu
authors.forename: Kirsten
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bechtel
authors.forename: Lawrence
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Siew
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001132:Arm; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010146:Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents