Mixed longitudinal data on the physical changes at puberty in 228 normal boys are presented together with normal standards for stages of genital and pubic hair development. The genitalia began to ...

Department of Pediatrics, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel Introduction: The aim of this study was to assess the clinical significance and prognosis of ...

Correspondence to Professor Russell M Viner, Population, policy and practice research programme, University College London Institute of Child Health, London, UK; r.viner{at}ucl.ac.uk Evidence to ...

Professor R Grahame, Department of Rheumatology, Arthur Stanley House, 40–50 Tottenham Street, London W1P 9PG, UK. If you wish to reuse any or all of this article ...

Correspondence to Dr Justin Penner, Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London W2 1NY, UK; justin.penner{at}nhs.net Background The epidemiology of congenital ...

Correspondence to: Prof. M Levin, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK; m.levin{at}ic.ac.uk Neisseria ...

Objective Describe the etiologies and clinical characteristics of febrile infants with a bulging fontanelle. Methods Medical charts of all infants aged 3-18 months who underwent a lumbar puncture ...

Fluid therapy restores circulation by expanding extracellular fluid. However, a dispute has arisen regarding the nature of intravenous therapy for acutely ill children following the development of ...

Correspondence to Dr Jenny M Kindblom, Pediatric Clinical Research Center, Queen Silvia Children’s Hospital, Vitaminvägen 21, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Goteborg 413 45, Sweden; ...

Objectives Deliberate overdose is a common cause for presentation to emergency departments in the UK, and paracetamol is by far the most common drug implicated in these presentations. 1 The national ...

Aims: To obtain age references for sitting height (SH), leg length (LL), and SH/H ratio in the Netherlands; to evaluate how SH standard deviation score (SDS), LL SDS, SH/H SDS, and SH/LL SDS are ...

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