[Long-term hypertransaminasemia disclosing a muscular disease].

Prolonged increase in serum transaminase activity is usually seen in chronic liver disease. Evaluation in one patient with such a prolonged increase having no evidence of liver disease including histological examination, revealed a limb girdle muscular dystrophy. This case suggests that a muscular disease should be suspected in all children with persistent increase in serum transaminase activity when the liver is apparently normal.

[Steiner-type neuroapudomatosis presented a pseudo-Hirschsprung disease (author's transl)].

A case of Steiner type neuroapudomatosis presented with a pseudo-Hirschsprung disease in an infant. Secondarily, the facies became typical, while hyperthyrocalcitoninaemia led to the discovery at the age of 2 years and 8 months of a medullary carcinoma of the thyroid. Despite early surgery in the absence of any clinical signs, it was not possible to avoid cervical lymphatic spread.

Cervical lymphadenitis in childhood due to mycobacteria of the Fortuitum group.

Two children with cervical lymphadenitis due to Mycobacterium fortuitum infection are described; both presented with erythema nodosum.