A Hindu male child, three years old, was admitted to hospital with difficulty in passing urine, and distension of the bladder. The symptoms were of two months' duration. The passage of a sound failed to detect the vesical stone. X-ray examination revealed no stone. Symptomatic treatment gave no relief. Suprapubic cystotomy was performed, and a soft growth about one inch long was found arising f...

The National Childhood Encephalopathy Study identified 37 cases of Reye's syndrome in children aged between 2 and 36 months in a 3-year period, giving an estimated incidence in Great Britain of 0.7/100 000 children a year. The diagnostic features were neither consistently positive in these cases, nor negative in 11 others later considered not to have Reye's syndrome. The prognosis was poor; the...

Despite of recent progresses in occupant safety, the protection of children are not still optimal. To offer a better understanding of child injury mechanisms, the present study proposes a humanlike finite element model of a three years old child’s neck. The subject was scanned with a medical scanner. The images were first semiautomatically segmented in order to extract the soft tissues and the ...

acute infectious gastroenteritis is one of the most common infectious diseases of humans in the world. diarrhea is a significant cause of death in infants. it has been estimated that up to 15% of children in developing nations die of diarrhea before 3 years of age. this study has been carried out to investigate entheropathogenic bacteria from 558 specimens of children less than 5 years of age. ...

background: the purpose of this study was to assess the dental arch dimensions in primary dentition of 3-5 years old filipino children and determining the existence of sexual dimorphism. m aterials and methods: in this descriptive study, 60 filipino preschool children aged 3-5 years old were selected from manila city. study casts were used for measurements of 3 arch dimensions: bicanine width, ...

Abstract: Renal abscesses are rare in childhood. They have vague manifestations and  any delay in proper diagnosis and treatment could lead to morbidity and mortality. We present a 5 year old girl with multiple renal abscesses after pyelonephritis that lead to total nephrectomy due to multiple drug resistance.  The renal abscess may have subtle symptoms. Early diagnosis and treatment strongly...

Fig. 4 : Photomicrograph of general blood picture showing inclusion bodies in lymphocyte (Gasser cell). A 5-year-old boy was brought to our medical OPD with severe chest deformity and growth retardation. He had six siblings of which two more had similar illness in a 21-year-old sister and 1-year-old brother (Fig. 1). His parents and grand parents had no such illnesses. Clinical examination reve...