Infantile hemangiomas are the most common infantile benign vascular tumor. While most infantile hemangiomas proliferate then involute, some may persist and require treatment for reasons including risk of disfigurement or functional impairment. Treatments currently include observation, pharmacological therapy, laser, cryosurgery, surgery and radiotherapy. Although pharmacological therapy is a we...

BACKGROUND A Danish population based matched case-control study of perinatal risk factors in children with infantile autism has provided some interesting and surprising observations regarding infantile autism and children born after assisted conception. METHODS AND RESULTS The cases (461) consisted of all children born between 1990 and 1999 and diagnosed with infantile autism in the Danish Ps...

BECAUSE one focus of Freud's work was his theory of infantile sexuality, there has been some interest in identifying other nineteenth-century writers who discussed this phenomenon.' Also, because of Freud's early papers on male hysteria, there has been interest in nineteenth-century beliefs about the occurrence of hysteria in males.2 Curiously enough, however, almost no one seems to have paid m...

A silver colloid technique to identify nucleolar organiser region associated protein (AgNOR) was applied to 16 fibrous proliferations of childhood and six low grade fibrosarcomas. The fibrous proliferations comprised five cases of infantile digital fibromatosis, seven of infantile desmoid type fibromatosis, and four of infantile myofibromatosis. The AgNORs were visualised as dots within the nuc...

Introduction: Neonatal jaundice is the most common cause of hospitalization.Animal study demonstrated a decrease in serum bililrubin level after zinc treatment in hyperbilirubinemic rats. The objective of this study was the investigation of serum zinc level in the neonates with idiopatic .   Materials and Methods: A case-control study was undertaken on 263 neonates in a neonatal intensive care ...

Background: Benign idiopathic infantile masturbation (infantile dyskinesia) or also known as gratification disorder is a rare abnormal paroxysmal movement that occurs in children between 3 months and years old. This characterized by self-stimulation of the genitalia associated with unusual posturing movements. Therefore, it could mimic seizure.2 The diagnosis this may be perplexing scarcely rep...

The aims of this study were to detect the frequency at which the different types of neonatal jaundice occur in Makkah and to estimate the malondialdehyde (MDA) levels. This study included 239 neonates with neonatal jaundice, 20 anemic neonates and 21 healthy neonates. ABO incompatibility was observed in 31.6% of neonates with indirect hyperbilirubinemia, in 14.3% of those with early onset jaund...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of Yinchen Shufu Decoction on hepatocyte apoptosis and the expression of its apoptosis-regulating gene Bcl-2 and Bax in Yin-jaundice rats. METHODS Forty-eight rats were divided randomly into 4 groups: the normal control group, Yin-jaundice model group, Yang-jaundice model group, Yinchen Shufu Decoction treatment group. The TUNEL assay and the immunohistoch...

Sir, Infantile haemangioma is a fairly common vascular tumour of the skin in infancy. In contrast, infantile subglottic haemangioma is rare, accounting for about 1.5% of all congenital laryngeal anomalies (1). However, it often causes stridor in infancy and sometimes leads to life-threatening respiratory distress (2). We report here a case of infantile haemangiomas on the face, neck and chest t...

A 62-year-old man having prostate cancer presenting with hemolytic jaundice is reported. The hemolytic jaundice was cured by diethylstilbestrol diphosphate (DES-P) treatment, but the patient died one year and two months later from relapse of prostate cancer. An autopsy confirmed the diagnosis of prostate cancer with multiple metastases. Sudden anemia caused by bone metastasis might have caused ...