Applicability of Greulich and Pyle method for age assessment in forensic practice on an Italian sample.

Background: The main importance in age estimation lies in the assessment of criminal liability and protection of unaccompanied minor immigrants, when their age is unknown. Under Italian law, persons are not criminally responsible before they reach the age of 14. The age of 18 is important when deciding whether juvenile or adult law must be applied.

Symptomatic hepatic cyst in a child: treatment with single-shot injection of tetracycline hydrochloride.

The prevalence of hepatic cysts is 0.1% to 0.5% based on autopsy studies, and 2.

POEMS syndrome in a 15-year-old boy: radiological findings.

POEMS syndrome is a multisystem disorder related to a plasma-cell dyscrasia. It is usually seen between the ages of 40 and 50 years and is very rare in childhood. Radiologically, this syndrome is characterized by sclerotic focal bone lesions with a normal radionuclide bone scan.

Central venous cannulation: are routine chest radiographs necessary after B-mode and colour Doppler sonography check?

Background: After the insertion of a central venous catheter, a chest radiograph is usually obtained to ensure correct positioning of the catheter tip.

Objective: To determine in a paediatric population whether B-mode and colour Doppler sonography after central venous access is useful to evaluate catheter position, thus obviating the need for a postprocedural radiograph.

Materials And Methods: A prospective study of 107 consecutive central venous access procedures placed in a paediatric intensive care unit was performed.

Pyloric atresia: report of two cases (one associated with epidermolysis bullosa and one associated with multiple intestinal atresias).

We describe the US findings in two vomiting newborns affected by different forms of pyloric atresia, a rare congenital anomaly that includes a spectrum of lesions limited to the antro-pyloric region of the stomach and with various inheritance mechanisms and syndromic associations.