Headaches as somatoform disorders in children and adolescents.

Somatoform disorders are often the main cause for seeking professional advice and performing a number of specialist checks. The aim of the study was to determine the frequency of somatoform disorders in the form of headaches in children and adolescents neurologically diagnosed and the risk factors thereof. Analysis of the biological and situational risk factors were established.

[Diagnostic problems with long QT syndrome in 5-year-old boy].

The authors described the case of 5-year-old boy, in whom a proper diagnosis was established after 19 months. In differential diagnosis, epileptic, tetanic and conversion seizures were taken into consideration.