Accurate height and length estimation in hospitalized children not fulfilling WHO criteria for standard measurement: a multicenter prospective study.

In hospitalized children, height should be measured. When world health organization (WHO) height measurement gold standards is impossible, the ideal height estimation technique is still unclear. We conducted an international prospective study in eight different pediatric intensive care units to assess the accuracy, precision, practicability, safety, and inter-rater reliability of 12 different height estimation techniques, based on body segment measurement extrapolation, or other calculations using previous or projected heights.

Forensic diagnostic approach of peri-volcanic area fatalities: About two cases at piton de la Fournaise.

The Piton de la Fournaise, located on the island of Reunion, is a particularly active volcano that gathers many observers during its eruptions. However, this activity, if not supervised, can involve many risks. During the eruption of Piton de la Fournaise in April 2021, two geology students camped in the peri-eruptive zone.

Lethal mesenteric perforation by osteophytes after blunt abdominal trauma.

A 50 year-old homeless man was found dead the day after he had sustained blunt abdominal trauma during a physical assault. Autopsy revealed no apparent injury to the abdominal wall, but showed a massive hemoperitoneum resulting from a large (8 cm) tear of the mesenteric root. It also revealed prominent and diffuse spinal osteophytes predominating in the lumbar region, where they were fused and formed a large anterior ossified excrescence.

[Iminodimethylation, a method for pharmacomodulation in pyrimido-[3,4-a]-s-triazine series].

Primary amines react with two formaldehydes and compounds presenting two mobile hydrogen atoms, this reaction can be called iminodimethylation. This reaction can be used in order to perform a pharmacomodulation in the pyrimido [3,4-a]-s-triazine series. Against Epidermophyton floccosum, the activity is better when nitrogen 7 is not substituted, when the heroatom in position 2 is 0 instead of S and when an aromatic nucleus is directly linked to the nitrogen atom in position 3.

Male pseudohermaphroditism, partial androgen receptors defect, 11p13 deletion: indication of gene localization.

A partial androgen receptor defect was found in a boy with male pseudohermaphroditism and an 11p13 deletion. We hypothesize that a gene responsible for the function or structure of androgen receptors might be localized in the 11p13 band or in close proximity to it.