[Organization of inpatient care on mass admission of children with burns suffered in a train crash].

The article discusses some experience in organizing medical care for children injured during the crash in Bashkiria in June, 1989. Twenty-eight children with extensive Degrees II--IIIa, IVb burns were treated in the burn department of Children's Clinical Hospital No. 9, Moscow; 24 of them were discharged in a satisfactory condition, 4 children with a burn of more than 50% of body surface died.

[Variants of Gerstmann's syndrome in children].

Neuropsychological study of backward schoolchildren with normal intellect revealed the cause of their school disadaptation, namely, a combined cortical disorder expressed in the form of discalculia and disgraphy (Gerstmann's syndrome). Histories of 3 children with this abnormality are described. The authors consider the clinical heterogeneity of the syndrome, its origin, and the use of intact intellectual abilities for adequate medico-pedagogical correction.