Previous studies have shown that the correct use of car safety seats can protect infants and children from vehicular injury. Although child passenger devices are increasingly used in the US, motor vehicle crashes continue to be the leading cause of death and acquired disability in infants and children younger than 14 years of age. These events are likely related, at least in part, to the high p...

Peroxisomal diseases are a heterogeneous group of genetic metabolic disorders which are caused by incorrect biogenesis of peroxisomes or a defect in activity of particular enzymes located in those organelles.D-bifunctional protein (D-BP) deficiency belongs to the second group of peroxisomal diseases characterised by dysfunction of a single peroxisomal enzyme. Bifunctional protein is a catalyst ...

Background. Retinal artery occlusion is an extremely rare diagnosis in the pediatric population and the etiology with risk factors of retinal artery occlusion are poorly understood in younger individuals. Methods and Results. This case report a rare case of transient branch retinal artery occlusion (BRAO) in a healthy young girl. A fifteen-year-old girl presented with painless decreased vision ...

A 3-year-old girl presented with vomiting for two days. Abdominal ultrasonogram revealed a mass at the lower pole of left kidney. Non-contrast enhanced abdominal computed tomography(CT) scan revealed high attenuation of the tumor and calcified lymphadenopathies in the retroperitoneum. On a contrast-enhanced CT scan, the mass was enhanced heterogenously. The patient underwent left radical nephre...

Working within the framework of socio-pragmatic turn in anglicism research, this paper adds a developmental sociolinguistic perspective investigating preadolescents’ use English lexical resources Belgian Dutch. The so far largely undocumented role linguistic transition from childhood to adolescence is analyzed through fieldwork corpus 15,465 utterances, collected during interviews with 26 (12 b...