[Acute secundary abdomen to pancreatic hydatid cyst].

The hydatidosis is a frequent zoonosis in Spain, but isolated location in pancreas and their onset as acute abdomen is excepcional. We present a boy 14 years old, with abdominal pain and low-grade fever since 1 month. Hemogram shows eosinophilia, and echography an anechoic mass in tail of pancreas beside of free peritoneal liquid.

[Miller-Dieker syndrome: a new case with cerebral echographic study].

Introduction: Miller-Dieker syndrome is characterized for type 1 lissencephaly associated with facial dysmorphism. In 90-95% of the cases, deletion of the distal fragment of chromosome 17 is seen. Nevertheless, this is difficult to confirm in about 50% of the cases, if we don't resort to special technics of molecular genetics.