[A case of true precocious puberty in a child].

The authors present a case of true precocious puberty in a 2 1/2-years-old female child, probably due to a neurogenic cause (sequela of a purulent meningitis). The girl showed telarche, pubarche, menarche and an advanced statural development. The diagnosis was confirmed by laboratory.

[Infantile and juvenile obesity: a medicosocial problem].

The authors studied a series of 536 schoolchildren aged from 11 to 16 years. Anthropometric measurements defined 60 cases as having a ponderal excess of 10% to 50% in comparison to height. This ponderal excess was 10% to 20% by 11 children, 20% to 30% in 26 cases, 30% to 50% by 16 children and more than 50% by another 7 children.

[The clinico-radiological aspects of tuberculosis in infants and young children].

The primary pulmonary tuberculosis in the infant and small child is a reality we have to consider. Although the success in the antituberculosis struggle is evident and real in Romania, the contamination risk as this age is present and may lead to very severe forms. The bacteriologic investigation is the only way of establishing a certain diagnosis.

[The clinico-biological, etiological and therapeutic aspects of acute purulent meningitis in newborn and older infants].

Acute purulent meningitis of the newborn and infant still raise difficult diagnosis problems due to the often misleading onset, and require an energetic and early intervention, adapted, as much as possible, to the etiologic aspects. The study reports on 90 cases of acute purulent meningitis in the newborn and infant, admitted to the pediatric ward of the Bistriţa County Hospital, for 6 years (1983-1988). The clinical and biological aspects were various, sometimes blurred by the antibiotic administration.

[Growth disorders in children].

The paper presents several remarks on the diagnosis of the growth disturbances in the child, with emphasis on the dwarfism entity by emotional deprivation. The study was performed on two comparative groups. The age of the children ranged between 1 and 3 years.