[Pentasomy X: a clinical case report].

Cytogenetic investigations gave evidence of pentasomy X in a 3-year-old female with typical facies and psychomotor retardation. The parents and the grandparents showed a normal karyotype. The clinical symptoms of our case were compared with the other authors, we found a low birth weight, short stature, delayed expressive language, multiple abnormalities of craniofacial skeleton and some minor deformities of the arts.

[Ultrasonic neonatal screening of congenital hip dislocation].

Routine echographical neonatal diagnosis of congenital dislocation of the hip is today a good method of treatment of this pathology: early diagnosis, infarct, allows treatment in early years with complete healing as shown by long term follow-up. 596 newborns have met with echographic hip screening: the method has shown good result and the study has led us to realize an anamnestical schema pointed on the familiarity which is one of the pathognomic matters of this pathology.

[Arterial pressure in childhood. I: Relation to age. (collection of data relative to 3,737 pupils of elementary and high school between the ages of 6 to 14 years)].

Research relating blood pressure levels of 6-14 years-old age schoolchildren has been carried into the whele school-population of Chivasso (Turin) town. Three kinds of armbands of different widths and lengths were used according to age. In conformity with Long's suggestions, the correction factors were used for the age-groups from 6 to 7 years and 8 to 11.

[Endoscopic examinations in the primary tuberculosis complex in childhood].

The authors draw attention here to a series of cases of primary tuberculosis in early infancy (in children aged between 4 months and 4 years), and they stress that it is indispensable to perform endoscopy in those forms where the lymphoglandular element constitutes the starting point of symptoms of local complications. The authors point to the high incidence of bronchoglandular fistulae mentioned in publications, which can be discovered exclusively by endoscopy and which can also be made easy by cortisone therapy. This therapy moreover remains a fundamental weapon against respiratory defect which follow when the lymphoglandular element of the primary tuberculous infection affects the bronchi.