BACKGROUND Infantile Fibrosarcoma is a rare soft tissue tumor in infants and children mostly located in extremities. An infantile and adult form has similar histopathological patterns but survival prognosis is much better in infantile form. Recurrence of infantile fibrosarcoma is common but the rates of metastasis are less than 10 percent in children younger than five Years and 50 percent in ch...

background: sandhoff disease is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by β-hexosaminidase deficiency and accumulation of gm2 ganglioside resulting in progressive motor neuron manifestations and death from respiratory failure and infections in infantiles. pathogenic mutations in hexb gene were observed which leads to enzyme activity reduction and interruption of normal metabolic cycle of gm2 ga...

Significant obstructive jaundice in chronic pancreatitis is generally considered to be rare. Eleven of 57 consecutive patients with proven chronic pancreatitis have developed significant obstructive jaundice of more than transient duration. Eight presented as jaundice complicating known pancreatitis and three as jaundice of unknown cause. Life table analysis showed a steady rise in the risk of ...

background: rooming-in, motivated by world health organization (who) strategies and baby-friendly hospital policies, is a practice followed in many maternity hospitals of iran. mother-infant dyad may easily be damaged by the separation caused by medical and surgical problems, which result in hospital stay. regarding this, the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of the rooming-in pr...

introductio dengue fever is the world’s most important hemorrhagic fever, especially in america, pacific islands, and asia. in countries like ours where viral hepatitis, malaria, enteric fever are common; it represents a challenge to identify the etiology of acute fever complicated by hepatitis. case presentation we report a case of acute hepatitis in a 7-year-old male with dengue hemorrhagic f...

This study aimed to determine the gaps of knowledge and practices of care of neonatal jaundice among Malaysian mothers. It was a cross sectional study of 400 mothers who attended the obstetric clinics or were admitted to the obstetric wards of a general hospital. They were surveyed with a structured set of questionnaire. The results showed that a majority (93.8%) of them knew about neonatal jau...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether an earlier observation, that infants fed a casein-hydrolysate formula (Nutramigen) have lower neonatal jaundice levels than those fed standard formulas, would be repeated in a larger independent group of infants with more frequent measurements and more rigorous statistical analysis. DESIGN Newborn infants were fed human milk, a standard whey-predominant formula ...

Background: Infantile hemangioma is a congenital vascularmalformation. Although almost all cases are self-limiting, treatmentis sometimes necessary. According to previous studies, topicalimiquimod induces resolution of lesions with an acceptable safetyprofile. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect ofthis topical treatment on Iranian infantile hemangioma patients.Method: Patien...

Multiple myeloma can occasionally present with jaundice. The underlying process may be pancreatic head myeloma infiltration causing obstructive jaundice or hepatic amyloid deposition resulting in cholestatic jaundice. A rare case of myeloma presenting as jaundice due to hepatic myeloma infiltration is reported.