Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is used for preoperative diagnosis of paediatric renal tumours, especially in centres where preoperative chemotherapy is advocated in Wilms' tumour. This review focuses on salient cytological features in specific paediatric renal tumours, the approach to resolving a differential diagnosis and the role of ancillary methods in diagnosis of paediatric renal t...

OBJECTIVE Paediatric clinical trials are often conducted as multinational trials. Informed consent or assent is part of the ethics committee approval for clinical trials. The consent requirements vary between countries due to national laws and regulations, which are not harmonised in Europe. These discrepancies can present challenges for paediatric clinical trials. The aim of this study was to ...

Professor Maria Theodoridou, Emeritus Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Athens, is one of the few paediatricians in Greece, who have experienced almost all the infectious diseases of the second half of the 20th century and their severe consequences, prior to the widespread adoption of immunisations. A milestone during her career was the establishment of a specialised National Refere...

INTRODUCTION Although paediatric patients have an increased risk for adverse drug events, few detection methodologies target this population. To utilise computerised adverse event surveillance, specialised trigger rules are required to accommodate the unique needs of children. The aim was to develop new, tailored rules sustainable for review and robust enough to support aggregate event rate mon...

OBJECTIVE Several clinical guidelines exist for blood transfusion in adults but only one refers to children. There are no guidelines for blood transfusion in critically ill children and the paediatric intensive care specialist's approach is unknown. We wished to evaluate the approach toward blood transfusion among a group of paediatric intensive care specialists. METHODS All certified paediat...

Introduction: Fibrolipoma, a subtype of lipoma is painless, well-circumscribed, slow-growing, submucosal benign adipocyte tumour. It is uncommon in the oral cavity and oropharyngeal region, with rare incidence in the retropharynx even rarest in pediatric age group.   Case Report: A very unusual case of fibrolipoma is presented in a pediatric patient, who had a huge retropharyngeal fibrolipoma a...

There is a growing shortage of size-matched organs and tissues for children. Although examples of substandard care are reported in the literature, there is no overview of the paediatric donation process. The aim of the study is to gain insight into the chain of events, practices and procedures in paediatric donation. Method; a survey of the 1990-2010 literature on paediatric organ and tissue do...

According to Professor Anne Greenough, Professor of Neonatology and Clinical Respiratory Physiology at the King's College London (London, UK), Paediatric Virology is indeed a rapidly increasing educational challenge. Professor Greenough, who in 1992 wrote her book on congenital, perinatal and neonatal infections, believes that during the past 3 decades, paediatric health professionals are becom...

Background: There are different publications on the relationship between the infections and development of allergic diseases. Aims & Objective: To examine the relationship between Helicobacter pylori infection and allergic rhinitis during childhood. Materials and Methods: 50 dyspeptic patients, 30 patients suffering from allergic rhinitis (overall 48 paediatric and 32 adolescent age groups) add...

BACKGROUND To investigate the progress of transition from paediatric to adult health care for patients with cancer in Taiwan's medical system. METHODS The data were retrieved from the Longitudinal Health Insurance Database (LHID), which contains the original inpatient and outpatient medical claims data for 1,000,000 enrollees randomly sampled from the NHIRD between 1997 and 2010. RESULTS Am...