[Experience with ventriculitis at a neonatology department].

Objective: To study the characteristics, treatment and follow-up of patients with ventriculitis in our neonatal unit.

Patients And Methods: Retrospective study of patients diagnosed with ventriculitis from January 1990 to December 1997. Diagnostic criteria were the identification of any bacteria in the ventricular fluid and pleocytosis (> or = 100 leukocytes per microl).

[Focal myositis: report of a case in pediatric age and review of the literature].

Introduction And Clinical Case: We present the case of a 13 years old boy with a year-old history of a painful tumour on the external and distal third of the right thigh. The imaging tests suggested a soft tissue tumour but the muscle biopsy revealed the typical findings of focal myositis. Focal myositis is a benign inflammatory pseudotumour of the skeletal muscle recognized as a distinct clinicopathological entity, but there have been descriptions of the cases initially diagnosed as focal myositis that have latter behaved as evident polymyositis.