A two year and four month old boy who was the second child of a non-consanguineous marriage was investigated for delayed motor mile stones and dysarthria. The patient had an uneventful antenatal history. He started walking at the age of two years. There was no progressive proximal muscle weakness. Examination showed long facies and a squint. Muscle tone in both upper and lower limbs was mildly ...

Earpits syndrome is a very rare kind of syndrome deafness and inherited as autosomal dominant. A study was taken up to understand the prevalence of this syndrome in children below the age of 14 years with hearing loss. Out of 743 children with hearing impairment, earpits syndrome was observed in 2(0.27%) cases. Both the children were the products of consanguineous marriage. Mixed hearing loss w...

kindler's syndrome is a rare entity of unknown cause characterized by acral blisters early in life followed by progressive diffuse poikiloderma and cutaneous atrophy. the inheritance pattern of this syndrome is not clear. we report four iranian siblings (three boys and one girl) with this syndrome, who were the result of a consanguineous marriage. in addition to the usual manifestations of the ...

We report a case of child who developed acute disseminated encephalomyelitis after trauma at home. This is 25-month-old child, born non-consanguineous marriage with no perinatal history or any recent viral infections, good psychomotor and intellectual development.
 Diagnosis encephalopathy can be difficult in children, nonspecific, subtle, transient symptoms, such as drowsiness irritabilit...