Correspondence to Dr Heather E Elphick, Respiratory Medicine, Sheffield Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield S10 2TH, UK; h.elphick{at}nhs.net Objectives To provide up-to-date ...

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 ...

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

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: ...

Identifying a genetic cause for growth disorders is crucial for detecting multi-system conditions, determining eligibility or contraindications for growth therapies and ending the diagnostic odyssey.

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 ...

Introduction We aimed to establish the clinical characteristics of children and young people (CAYP) currently receiving deep brain stimulation (DBS) therapy for the management of movement disorders in ...

aDepartment of Paediatric Neurology, Guy’s Hospital, London, bRadiology Department Guy’s Hospital, London, cDepartment of Neurosurgery King’s College Hospital, London, dOphthalmic Department Guy’s ...

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, paediatricians and child mental health practitioners have noticed an increase in tic symptoms in some children and adolescents already diagnosed with tic ...

Aims: To examine the childhood overweight and obesity prevalence trends between 1974 and 2003 and to assess whether these trends relate to parental social class and household income. Methods: A school ...

Each year hundreds of randomised controlled trials are conducted in low- and middle-income countries addressing issues in clinical paediatrics and in child and adolescent health. The topics are as ...