Infantile Hämangiome

Infantile autism or infantile psychoses.

Until recently the situation in relation to childhood psychoses was extremely confused. There was little agreement among authors about terminology and a general uncertainty about their nature and aetiology. Masterly reviews by Eisenberg' 2 in the United States and Rutter' in the United Kingdom have brought some order to this complex field. Perhaps the most important contribution was the introdu...

Idiopathic infantile asymmetry and infantile hemiplegia.

In their recent paper, Philippi et al. [1] proposed a welcome evaluation scale which may be used across the different approaches that have been applied to infants with idiopathic asymmetry. It provides a functional view based on posture, spontaneous and reactive movements, hopefully unifying the host of syndromes under which these children came in the past. All these disorder categories (briefl...

Pränatale Kortisontherapie eines Giant Fetal Hepatic Hemangiomas

Infantile hepatische Hämangiome sind benigne vaskuläre Tumoren und nach Hepatoblastomen die zweithäufigsten Lebertumoren [1–3]. Die Hepatomegalie bildet sich nach initial raschem Wachstum bis zum Alter von 12–18 Monaten vollständig zurück [4]. Eine Behandlung ist erforderlich, um ernsten Komplikationen, wie zum Beispiel die thrombozytopenische kongestive Herzinsuffizienz, die thrombozytopenisch...

Infantile myofibromatosis*

Infantile myofibromatosis is a mesenchymal disorder characterized by the fibrous proliferation of the skin, bone, muscle and viscera. It is the most common fibrous tumor in childhood. We present a newborn with skin and bone disease without visceral involvement, who showed good response to vinblastine and methotrexate. Clinical features, etiology, diagnosis, and treatment are reviewed.

Infantile Diarrhœa