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..To perform transcranial Doppler sonography in newborns and infants with bacterial meningitis to evaluate predictive value of neurologic sequelae...

..Healthy boys had lower 2D/4D ratio than healthy girls. It is concluded that 2D/4D ratio established by intrauterine androgen levels influences the sexually dimorphic digit pattern...

..To evaluate the epidemiological and clinical findings in children with Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP) admitted during a 10-year period, 1995 to 2004, and to compare them with series from other parts of the world...

..Additional studies are needed to evaluate the effect of atopy and allergic diseases in glycemic control and long-term complications in patients with type 1 DM and the effect of atopy on progression of chronic HBV infection...

..To evaluate the effects of three specific conditions related to critical care on adrenal function with special regard to the levels of serum cortisol, corticotropin (ACTH), dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate, and cytokines...

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..Dependency on blood products was decreased. Further controlled randomized studies with large series are needed in order to analyse the timing and duration of HDMP treatment and its effect on outcome...

..To our knowledge, this is the first case of adrenocortical adenoma presenting with rhabdomyolysis in a child...

..To determine thyrotropin (TSH) and thyroid hormones reference ranges in healthy term newborns during the neonatal period and to assess the ranges of thyroid volume in newborns using ultrasound scanning...

..Adrenal hemorrhage (AH) is a relatively uncommon condition in neonates. This study aimed to review the clinical, laboratory and ultrasonographic findings of AH in newborns...

..The combination of these congenital defects associated with developmental anomalies of lower extremities. We discuss the clinical, radiological findings and pathogenesis of this lower extremity malformation...

..Although several drugs have been used, we used tamoxifen for his arthralgia and his complaint disappeared. To the best of our knowledge, this is the second case treated by tamoxifen reported in the literature...

..Here, we report a case with stage IV neuroblastoma presents with the involvement of the sphenoid sinus. To our knowledge this is the fourth case of neuroblastoma involved sphenoid sinus in English literature...

..It is not clear whether the higher incidence of this gastrointestinal disease in premature infants contributes to the risk of osteopenia of prematurity...

..The patient also had active carditis related to acute rheumatic fever. He died despite intensive treatment. Regarding this case, we discuss the pathogenesis and clinical findings of pulmonary hemorrhage and active carditis in HSP...

..A newborn with TS with three quite rare congenital malformations (imperforate anus/anal atresia associated with rectovestibular fistula, interrupted aortic arch, and multicystic dysplastic kidney) is presented...

..After surgery, we treated the patient successfully with combined radiotherapy and eight courses of cisplatin-based chemotherapy. Our patient was followed-up for 34 months without any evidence of relapse...

..The purpose of this study was to assess the incidence of thyroid dysfunctions and autoimmune thyroiditis in children with vitiligo and to identify related factors...

..We report a case of CCD in a 3.5-year-old boy who referred to our clinic because of an unclosed anterior fontanelle and emphasize the importance of clinical findings in CCD...

..The case is interesting because she developed Wilms' tumor at 21 months of age. To our knowledge, this is the first case of this association reported in the literature...

..To investigate whether immune responses against chronic HBV infection in children have an effect on prevalence of allergic diseases and atopy...

..The disease recurred from infraclavicular region in addition to primary site, even though total excision was performed. Although the disease is mullticentric after recurrence, the patient has no systemic symptoms...

..The combination of malformations observed overlaps with the characteristic findings of hydrolethalus syndrome, Meckel syndrome, Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome and pseudotrisomy 13. We discussed the differential diagnosis of the case...

..They showed remarkable blue sclera, which to our knowledge has not been reported previously in cutis laxa...

..The hyperpigmentation was diffuse scattered, flagellate like and linear streaking which was thought to be mainly related to the skin toxicity of bleomycin...

..Dyslipidemia may be a risk factor for cardiovascular complications in marasmic children in the future...

..The purpose of this study was to investigate the presence of diabetes, thyroid, and celiac diseases (CD)-related autoantibodies in children with type 1 diabetes (DM1) and their siblings...

..He had poor prognostic factors such as extensive epidermal loss, neutropenia, acute respiratory distress syndrome and candida sepsis, but nonetheless made a complete recovery...

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..These complications of varicella are extremely rare in a healthy infant...

..Persistent otorrhoea that does not respond to conventional antibiotics or facial paralysis in a child with a discharging ear should alert the physician to a diagnosis of tuberculosis...