Objectives Primary: To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in the diagnosis of appendicitis in paediatric patients presenting with suspected appendicitis. Secondary: ...

Maria Valentina Abate, Ingeborg Barisic, Michele Santoro, Alessio Coi, Joachim Tan, Ester Garne, Maria Loane, Ljubica Odak, Elisa Ballardini, Clara Cavero-Carbonell ...

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 ...

Correspondence to: Prof. H P van Bever Department of Paediatrics, National University Hospital, Singapore, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119074; paevbhpsnus.edu.sg If you wish to reuse any or all ...

Correspondence to Dr Richard Reading, Community Paediatrics, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich NR4 7UY, UK; richard.reading{at}nnuh.nhs.uk The British Paediatric Surveillance Unit (BPSU ...

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 ...

1 Epidemiology Branch, Division of Epidemiology, Statistics and Prevention Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA 2 ...

Background and aim Poisoning and deaths linked to methadone have risen since the beginning of methadone treatment.1 2 Methadone poisoning is common among children.3 The aim of this review was to ...

Objective To report mortality in babies enrolled on a community-based programme, Care of Next Infant Plus (CONI PLUS), which primarily supports parents anxious because of previous sudden unexpected ...

Background/aim Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) and Angelman syndrome (AS) are rare imprinting disorders caused by the aberrant expression of 15q11.2-q13 imprinted genes. Due to their rarity, data on ...

BACKGROUND Mortality rates in children with insulin dependent diabetes (IDDM) in the UK are unknown and the causes of death not well documented. AIM To determine the mortality rate and causes of death ...