1. The pionneers of pediatric medicine

   • H. -R Wiedemann

   Announcement Pages: 1 - 1

2. Schistosomiasis in childhood

   • E. Doehring

   Review Pages: 2 - 9

3. “Cerebral” lactic acidosis: defects in pyruvate metabolism with profound brain damage and minimal systemic acidosis

   • G. K. Brown
   • E. A. Haan
   • D. M. Danks

   Original Investigations Pages: 10 - 14

4. Tetrahydrobiopterin deficiency: assay for 6-pyruvoyl-tetrahydropterin synthase activity in erythrocytes, and detection of patients and heterozygous carriers

   • H. Shintaku
   • A. Niederwieser
   • H. -Ch. Curtius

   Original Investigations Pages: 15 - 19

5. Surfactant replacement therapy in neonatal respiratory distress syndrome

   • M. Konishi
   • T. Fujiwara
   • T. Hashimoto

   Original Investigations Pages: 20 - 25

6. Intrauterine development of posthaemorrhagic hydrocephalus

   • E. Leidig
   • G. Dannecker
   • J. Peiffer

   Original Investigations Pages: 26 - 29

7. Alterations of intracranial pressure and cerebral blood flow velocity in healthy neonates and their implication in the origin of perinatal brain damage

   • H. M. Strassburg
   • K. Bogner
   • H. J. Klemm

   Original Investigations Pages: 30 - 35

8. Clostridium difficile in neonates: serogrouping and epidemiology

   • M. Delmée
   • G. Verellen
   • G. Francois

   Original Investigations Pages: 36 - 40

9. Di-(2-ethylhexyl)-phthalate as plasticizer in PVC respiratory tubing systems: indications of hazardous effects on pulmonary function in mechanically ventilated, preterm infants

   • B. Roth
   • P. Herkenrath
   • A. Younossi-Hartenstein

   Original Investigations Pages: 41 - 46

10. Reflex sympathetic dystrophy: an underreported syndrome in children?

    • R. -A. Lemahieu
    • C. Van Laere
    • L. A. Verbruggen

    Original Investigations Pages: 47 - 50

11. Thrombocytopenia: a complication of Kawasaki disease

    • T. Hara
    • Y. Mizuno
    • T. Hosoyamada

    Original Investigations Pages: 51 - 53

12. Renal growth in patients nephrectomized for Wilms tumour as compared to renal agenesis

    • E. Dinkel
    • J. Britscho
    • M. Ertel

    Original Investigations Pages: 54 - 58

13. Oestrogen treatment of constitutionally tall girls with 0.1 mg/day ethinyl oestradiol

    • O. Bartsch
    • B. Weschke
    • B. Weber

    Original Investigations Pages: 59 - 63

14. The effect of L-asparaginase on lipid metabolism during induction chemotherapy of childhood lymphoblastic leukaemia

    • P. Cremer
    • M. Lakomek
    • G. Prindull

    Original Investigations Pages: 64 - 67

15. Plasma fibronectin concentrations in healthy newborns and in children

    • E. A. Valletta
    • L. Bonazzi
    • A. L. Boner

    Original Investigations Pages: 68 - 70

16. Blood lead and erythrocyte zinc protoporphyrin in mothers and newborn infants

    • N. Milman
    • J. M. Christensen
    • K. K. Ibsen

    Original Investigations Pages: 71 - 73

17. Sinus tachycardia in term infants preceding sudden infant death

    • D. P. Southall
    • V. Stevens
    • A. J. Wilson

    Original Investigations Pages: 74 - 78

18. Lead and sudden infant death

    • G. A. Drasch
    • E. Kretschmer
    • C. Lochner

    Original Investigations Pages: 79 - 84

19. The cot in cot deaths

    • A. M. Oudesluys-Murphy
    • W. J. van Yperen

    Short Communications Pages: 85 - 86

20. Methaemoglobinaemia in young infants with diarrhoea

    • R. Dagan
    • E. Zaltzstein
    • R. Gorodischer

    Short Communications Pages: 87 - 89

21. A study of adenovirus gastroenteritis in the Tokyo area

    • H. Ushijima
    • Y. Eshita
    • Y. Matsunaga

    Short Communications Pages: 90 - 92

22. Early diagnosis in X-linked agammaglobulinaemia

    • R. K. B. Schuurman
    • E. J. B. M. Mensink
    • H. van Velzen-Blad

    Case Reports Pages: 93 - 95

23. An asymmetric bulging of the chest as a leading sign of a cardiac fibroma in a child

    • R. A. Christiano
    • B. H. M. Wolf
    • L. J. Lubbers

    Case Reports Pages: 96 - 98

24. Facial paralysis at the age of 2 months as a first clinical sign of van Buchem disease (endosteal hyperostosis)

    • J. P. Fryns
    • H. Van den Berghe

    Case Reports Pages: 99 - 100

25. Osteopathia striata, cranial sclerosis with cleft palate and facial nerve palsy

    • L. Kornreich
    • M. Grunebaum
    • M. Mimouni

    Case Reports Pages: 101 - 103

26. Defective biopterin synthesis and birth weight

    • I. Smith

    Letter to the Editors Pages: 104 - 104

27. Editorial comment

    • J. Spranger

    Letter to the Editors Pages: 104 - 104