Psychosocial problems and childhood recurrent abdominal pain.

Objective: Recurrent abdominal pain (RAP) is a challenging problem in general pediatrics. The present study aimed to assess psychosocial problems associated with children with RAP.

Material And Method: Children aged 5-15 years with symptoms of abdominal pain for more than 3 months, interfering with their daily life and activities and control children were consecutively enrolled.

Diagnostic evaluation of infantile cholestasis.

Objective: To evaluate diagnostic accuracy of some important clinical manifestations and different investigations in infantile cholestasis.

Material And Method: Infants diagnosed with prolong conjugated hyperbilirubinemia and admitted to Chiang Mai University Hospital between Jan 1999 and Feb 2003. Demographic and clinical data were recorded Routine biochemical tests, and serology for TORCHS infections were carried out.

Hyaluronic acid: additional biochemical marker in the diagnosis of biliary atresia.

Background: The purpose of the present paper was to evaluate the value of biochemical markers, including conventional liver function tests, gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT), and hyaluronic acid (HA), in the diagnosis of neonatal cholestasis.

Methods: Infants with neonatal jaundice were consecutively enrolled during 1 year period. The patients were diagnosed as having biliary atresia (BA) if there was either bile ductular proliferation in the portal tracts, atretic common bile duct/gallbladder, or evidence of bile duct obstruction demonstrated by liver pathology or intraoperative cholangiography, respectively.

Juvenile polyp in Thai children--clinical and colonoscopic presentation.

Background: The aim of this prospective study was to describe the clinical characteristics of colorectal polyp in Thai children.

Methods: From December 2002 to February 2005, children under 15 years of age presenting with rectal bleeding were prospectively enrolled. Demographic, clinical, and laboratory information was recorded.

Emergence of human G9 rotavirus with an exceptionally high frequency in children admitted to hospital with diarrhea in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Among 315 fecal specimens collected from children hospitalized with diarrhea in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in 2000-2001, group A rotavirus was detected in 107 (34.0%). Of these, 98 (91.