INFANTILE TUBERCULOSIS.

Infantile osteoarticular tuberculosis misdiagnosed as Bacillus Calmette-Guerin related osteomyelitis

Tuberculosis, a re-emerging public health problem, is uncommon in infancy. Two healthy completely immunized infants presenting with manifestations compatible with osteoarticular infection required surgical debridement. The cultures of the specimens were positive for M. tuberculosis (MTB) complex comprised multiple subspecies. One case was misdiagnosed as a Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) related...

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...

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