Localized morphea is a disorder of unknown cause in which there is localized sclerosis of the skin. Disabling pansclerotic morphea of childhood is a rare severe mutilating form of morphea involving the dermis, fat, fascia, muscle and even bone, usually starting before the age of 14 years. Here, an eight-year-old boy with progressive sclerosis of palmar surface of wrist and hand and digits...

objective this study aims at determining the epidemiologic, presenting symptoms, clinical course and electrophysiologic features of childhood guillain-barre syndrome (gbs) in the east azarbaijan province over a period of five years. materials & methods  all the patients, aged< 15 years, referred/admitted to tabriz children hospital with gbs between january 2001 and december 2005 were investigat...

backgroundthe years of life lost (yll) due to cancer can be a more illustrative index. to promote preventive and therapeutic services, this study aimed to investigate the childhood cancer mortality and its trend over the past few years in yazd to provide planners with baseline data. material and method data obtained from death registration system of the healthcare center were used to calculate ...

myasthenia gravis (mg) is a disorder of the neuromuscular junction. in children, the disease may be congenital or due to an autoimmune process. clinical manifestations may be purely ocular or may include generalized weakness, fatigability, dysphagia, and disorders of speech. in this article, 27 children (14 female, 13 male) were prospectively studied from birth to age fifteen. disease presentat...

intervention in early childhood development as one of the social determinants of health, is important for reducing social gap and inequity. in spite of increasingly developing intensive neonatal care wards and decreasing neonatal mortality rate, there is no follow up program in iran. this study was carreid out to design high risk infants follow up care program with the practical aim of creating...

the fetal origins hypothesis (foh), put forward in the epidemiological literature and later flourished in the economics literature, suggests that the time in utero is a critical period for human development. however, much attention has been paid to the consequences of fetal exposures to more extreme natural shocks, while less is known about fetal exposures to milder but more commonly experience...

World Kidney Day 2016 focuses on kidney disease in childhood and the antecedents of adult kidney disease that can begin in earliest childhood. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) in childhood differs from that in adults, as the largest diagnostic group among children includes congenital anomalies and inherited disorders, with glomerulopathies and kidney disease in the setting of diabetes being rela...