backgrounds: the purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of acceptance and commitment therapy for children with chronic pain (chact) on quality of life of 7 to 12 year-old children. thus, the basic problem of the current study is whether chact can increase the quality of life on 7 to 12 year-old children with chronic pain?   materials and methods: according to the criteria of chronic pa...

OBJECTIVE Retrospective analysis of all patients treated for retropharyngeal infection in a tertiary care pediatric hospital. METHODS Charts were reviewed for demographic data, duration of symptoms, radiologic workup, antibiotic choice, microbiologic findings, surgical approach, complications, and duration of medical therapy. Surgical findings were correlated with computed tomographic (CT) sc...

Cranial asymmetry of the type known as plagiocephaly occurs frequently in infants and in adults (Clark, 1934; Orley, 1949; Potter, 1952). Very little precise information is available concerning the cause, or more probably the multiple causes, of this kind of cranial malformation. The term plagiocephaly signifies the flattening of diagonally opposite areas of the frontal and occipital bones, res...

Between 1990 to 1995, 41 children received 44 intestinal transplants under tacrolimuslsteroid immunosuppression and included the isolated small bowel (S8) (n = 10), liver/small bowel (LS8) (n = 27) and multivisceral (MV) (n = 7) allografts. There were 19 males and 22 females with ages ranging between 0.5 to 18 years (mean of 4.2 years). Twenty grafts contained a segment of large bowel which was...

Meningiomas are central nervous system neoplasms derived from arachnoid cap cells. They are the second most common brain tumors after gliomas, but are rare in children. Furthermore, meningiomas exhibit different behavior in this age group. From 1997-2007, 7 children with brain meningiomas were treated at the Department of Neurosurgery, Brazilian National Cancer Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...

OBJECTIVES To identify the causative agents, presenting signs and symptoms, and course of disease in children diagnosed with anaphylaxis. Design. Five-year retrospective chart review. SETTING Urban children's hospital pediatric emergency department, operating suite, and inpatient units. PARTICIPANTS Fifty-five cases of anaphylaxis in 50 patients 1 to 19 years of age. INTERVENTIONS None. ...