[Tuberculosis of the spine in children. Personal experience].

We are currently witnessing a worldwide return of tuberculosis. An extremely rare form is tuberculosis of the spine which is reported above all in extra-European studies. The authors report a case of Pott's disease in a child aged 3 years and 3 months who was referred to their attention due to the appearance of left inguinal swelling, fever and anemia.

[Slipped capital femoral epiphysis and biosynthetic growth hormone therapy. A case report].

The case of an adolescent male with short stature and partial growth hormone deficiency who developed a slipped capital femoral epiphysis during the treatment with recombinant growth hormone is reported in this paper. Our patient started GH therapy with recombinant growth hormone at the dose of 15 U/m2/week administered subcutaneously three times a week. After 6 months of GH therapy there was a satisfactory response to the therapy and his growth velocity improved significantly.

Study of foetal hip: intrauterine positions and sonographic aspects.

The authors present their initial experience in the US Study of the foetal hip. Focusing on difficulties found and the possible advantages. The US foetal hip study shows that it is most likely to obtain qualitative morphologic data rather than quantitative that are interesting in case of occasional identification remark during US.

Congenital pseudarthrosis of the tibia: treatment with local steroid infiltration.

A new treatment was used for 3 cases of congenital pseudarthrosis of the tibia based on the method used for the treatment of simple bone cysts by local infiltration of steroids. All 3 cases achieved consolidation and had no recurrence. This method may be used in association with the numerous other methods used in the treatment of congenital pseudarthrosis of the tibia (bone transplants, vascularized transplants using microsurgical techniques, electromagnetic induction, and the use of external fixators).