Real-time computed sonography was used to monitor ventricular size in kittens with experimentally induced hydrocephalus. Hydrocephalus was induced by cisternal kaolin injection in newborn kittens in order to study the effects of both hydrocephalus and subsequent ventriculoperitoneal shunting on the morphology of brain tissue. When severe hydrocephalus was achieved, marked physical and neurologi...

Between 1923 and 1927 the late Professor Alexander Low measured a series of newborn babies, and in the subsequent years he succeeded in measuring 65 of the boys and 59 of the girls at each birthday up to and including 5 years. Twenty-one physical measurements were made on each child (always by Professor Low himself) and a record was kept of the number of erupted teeth, the time of closure of th...

One of the well-known characteristic skeletal findings in athyreosis is retardation of bone maturation, the most common manifestations of which are delayed appearance of ossification centres of the carpal bones and the closure of the anterior fontanelle. Other evidences of this retardation of bone maturation have, however, been reported more recently and modern methods of research have shed new...

In fetus, while minor degree of hydrocephalus often goes undetected, severe cases of obstructive variety present with the following features: 1 .the head is felt larger, globular and softer than the normal head 2.the head is high up and difficult to push down into pelvis 3.fetal heart sound is situated high up above the umbilicus 4.internal examination during labor may reveal widening of suture...

Dermoid cysts are developmental tumours that develop from germ cells displaced between the 3rd and 5th week of embryogenesis. Although dermoid cysts are known to be the most common scalp swellings; cystic congenital inclusion dermoid of the anterior fontanelle is a very rare scalp swelling. It is a benign, slow-growing, non-tender, soft swelling which is covered with intact skin. Ruling out int...

We report the plain film and sonographic findings in six children (2 1/2 months to 5 years old) with a subgaleal dermoid cyst at the anterior fontanelle. Plain films of the skull made in all patients showed a soft-tissue mass superficial to the anterior fontanelle with a normal subcutaneous fat layer above it. In three children, the margins of the anterior fontanelle were beveled to match the c...

OBJECTIVE To assess household practices that can affect neonatal health, from the perspective of caregivers and health workers; to identify signs in neonates leading either to recognition of illness or health-care seeking; and to ascertain the proportion of caregivers who recognize the individual items of the integrated management of neonatal and childhood illnesses (IMNCI) programme. METHODS...

Skeletal dysplasia is an uncommon cause of short stature in children. An 11-year-old girl was evaluated for severe short stature in a tertiary care hospital. Clinical examination revealed severe disproportionate short stature and classical triad of multiple supernumerary teeth, and complete absence of clavicles and open sagittal sutures and fontanelles. Skeletal survey confirmed these findings,...

Cases of dystocia from this cause are so very rare that the following one is worthy of record. I was sent for to a patient in connexion with the Fountainbridge Dispensary, with a message that she was a multipara, and had been in labour for more than twelve hours without any progress. On examining the case, I found the following condition. Abdominal Palpation.?The head of the child was still at ...

A myelomeningocele associated with the ArnoldChiari malformation is now one of the commonest neonatal surgical emergencies. Hydrocephalus used to be the main cause of death in these infants during the first year of life, but since the advent of ventriculo-atrial shunting procedures the mortality and morbidity have improved. However, the management of the hydrocephalus still remains a serious pr...