Hospitalised children predate 19th-century specialist children’s hospitals. Before Lister and anaesthesia, surgery was generally of short duration. In the 18th century, paediatric surgery was ...

BACKGROUND In adults, erythema multiforme (EM) is thought to be mainly related to herpes infection and Stevens–Johnson syndrome (SJS) to drug reactions. AIMS To investigate this hypothesis in children ...

2 Department Community Child Health, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill, Glasgow G3 8SJ, UK 3 Fraser of Allander Neurosciences Unit, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill, Glasgow G3 8SJ, ...

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 ...

AIM To clarify the contribution of clinical and environmental factors and infection to the aetiology of vulvovaginitis in premenarchal girls, and to determine clinical indicators of an infectious ...

To discover that there is uncertainty about the sex of one’s newborn baby is devastating and often incomprehensible for most parents. It is paramount that clear explanations and investigations are ...

Bacterial tracheitis is the most common paediatric airway emergency requiring admission to the regional paediatric intensive care unit in northern Ireland. We reviewed 89 admissions to our unit with ...

Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology, Department of Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Correspondence to: Professor Michael J Goldacre Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, ...

Introduction and Objective Hip instability in children with cerebral palsy (CP) is a serious progressive problem. Materials and Methods 141 surgical procedures were performed on children 3 – 16 years ...

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Correspondence to Dr Simon Pini, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK; S.Pini{at}leeds.ac.uk Objective Assess the existing evidence base in order to ...

a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3JH, UK, b Portex Anaesthesia, Intensive Therapy and Respiratory Medicine Unit, Institute ...