[Parents' view on the care of their children at pediatric emergency department in 1991].

A survey carried out by questionnaire was performed among parents accompanying their children to the emergency department of the Lenval's children hospital in order to determine their opinion on the quality of the reception and care. The questionnaire was distributed to 2,382 parents. A total of 719 questionnaires (30.

[Incontinentia pigmenti. Chromosomal study of a family (author's transl)].

After lymphocyte culture, chromosomic study has been performed on a woman and her daughter suffering from incontinentia pigmenti as well as on the two healthy brothers. This study has shown a high rate of chromosomic breakage in the four subjects, which confirms the facts mentioned in several previous reports. As far as genetic advice is concerned, the discovery of an excess of chromosomic breakage in a healthy subject who is a close relative of a patient, should prompt caution.

[Chromosome breakage in incontinentia pigmenti].

Two cases of incontinentia pigmenti in a mother and her daughter are reported. An increase in structural chromosome aberrations of the chromatid type was observed, as already described by other authors. The aberrations rate in the same individual varied from culture to culture.