Topical ciprofloxacin/dexamethasone otic suspension is superior to ofloxacin otic solution in the treatment of children with acute otitis media with otorrhea through tympanostomy tubes.

Objective: To determine the efficacy and safety of topical ciprofloxacin/dexamethasone otic suspension compared with ofloxacin otic solution in the treatment of acute otitis media with otorrhea through tympanostomy tubes (AOMT) in pediatric patients.

Methods: This multicenter, prospective, randomized, observer-masked, parallel-group study was conducted at 39 sites in 599 children aged >or=6 months to 12 years with an AOMT episode of View Article and Find Full Text PDF

[Pediatric psychosomatic medicine. Liminal proposals].

Psychosomatic disorders are part of the pediatrician's everyday practice. However, they have only lately become a field for systematic investigations, based on diverse methods and concepts. The viewpoints supported by the authors originate in studies carried out in the pediatric department of a hospital which deals only with psychosomatics.

[Psychological characteristics of the asthmatic child].

The author's statements are based on monographic studies. They rely on his double experience as a pediatrician and a child psychiatrist. 1.

[Psychopathology of infancy in pediatrics. Clinical basis. Nosographic regrouping (author's transl)].

Psychopathology in childhood, even in infancy is rich ans full of diversity. Its main clinical patterns are : 1) psychosomatic disturbances ; 2) developmental abnormalities ; 3) abnormal motor activities ; 4) straight mental manifestations. Each of these clinical categories includes several ways of psychological organization and miscellanous causes which in turn are subjected to regrouping.