Vertebra plana Calvé.

The differential diagnostic problems of a case of vertebra plana Calvé having a rare location in the cervical spine are discussed. The various theories of aetiology and pathogenesis are considered briefly. The differentiation from inflammatory and tumourous diseases of the vertebral column is of great importance for therapeutic reasons.

[Amniotic amputation (author's transl)].

This report is upon a new-born child whose intra-uterine amputated right hand was found in the placenta. Besides there was a syndactylism together with the missing of the middle and end phalnges of the long fingers of the left hand. Individual observations have been reported and the question of exogenous or endogenous causes for the so-called amniotic amputation is being discussed.