Aims Time to diagnosis (TTD) in childhood cancer varies between tumour types. Most early diagnosis research in the United Kingdom has a predominant focus on brain tumours and tertiary centre ...

PURPOSE Comparison of bone age assessed using either the “atlas matching” method of Greulich and Pyle or the “point scoring system” of Tanner and Whitehouse (TW2). MATERIALS AND METHODS 362 ...

5 Institute of Health and Society, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle University, UK Correspondence to Professor Ann Le Couteur, Newcastle University, Sir James Spence Institute, Royal Victoria ...

AIMS To delineate common and variable features and outcome of children with congenital disorder of glycosylation type Ia (CDG-Ia) caused by the frequent R141H/F119LPMM2 genotype. METHODS Clinical data ...

Department of Pediatrics, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA Andreas Meyer-Heim, Mühlebergstr. 104, ...

During the 10-year period 1960-69, 137 patients in Ruchill Hospital were diagnosed by clinical and laboratory findings as mumps meningitis. Parotitis was detected in only 51 (37%). There was a male ...

Correspondence to Dr Frances Hutchings, Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Upper Maudlin Street, Bristol BS2 8BJ, UK; fhutchings{at}doctors.org.uk ...

Academic Division of Child Health, University of Nottingham, Derbyshire Children's Hospital, Derby, UK Correspondence to Zayed Alsulami, Academic Division of Child Health, University of Nottingham, ...

Correspondence to Andreea Chiorean, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada; andreea.chiorean{at}mail.utoronto.ca Objective To ...

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 ...

‘Cryonics’, describing the freezing of the freshly deceased in the hope that they may in the future be reanimated, is cryopreservation taken to its extreme. No public funding is available, although ...

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