Pediatric and inherited neurovascular syndromes have diverse presentations and treatments. Although many of these diseases are uncommon, they must be included in the differential diagnosis for children with strokes or hemorrhages. In neurosurgical practice, familial cavernous malformations, hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT), and moyamoya are the most frequently encountered of these di...

Timothy K. Ruttan, Eric Higginbotham, Nicole Higginbotham, Coburn H. Allen, and Sarmistha Hauger Department of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas, Austin, United States; Department of Neurosurgery, Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas, Austin, United States; Departments of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Dell ...

Jaundice begins in the infants from the very early days of birth; the symptoms usually appear with yellow skin and sometimes eyes, jaundice first involves only the face, but it also affects the chest, abdomen, legs, and the soles of the feet and the lower limbs.  In this ethnobotanical study, attempt was made to identify medicinal plants used in the herbal medicine of Shahrekord region to treat...

Background and objectives: The knowledge of traditional uses of plant species used in the management of pediatric diseases in Kano State is still intact with the traditional healers; thus, the present study was aimed to collect, identify and document plant species used traditionally for the management of pediatric diseases in the study area. Methods: The ethnob...

IT IS EASY TO ROMANTICIZE CHILDHOOD, ESPECIALLY IN THE middle of summer. Memories of lazy days at the beach, playing baseball or double Dutch with friends, catching lightning bugs in a jar and hopefully remembering to let them go, and having no concerns about bills to pay or time pressures or health problems. Perhaps childhood still is that way for some children, but for those with a chronic il...

BACKGROUND The field of pediatric dermatology has gained importance with the increment of pediatric patients and the discrepancy of their skin diseases with the adult versions. We aimed to describe frequency and distribution of pediatric skin diseases, and the diagnostic procedures and treatments prescribed. METHODS Cross-sectional epidemiological study. We collected data about diagnostic pat...