Presurgical unilateral cleft lip anthropometrics: implications for the choice of repair technique.

Background: It has been stated that height of the lateral lip is difficult to obtain with the rotation advancement repair only when the lateral lip is short in both its vertical and horizontal dimensions. The authors studied preoperative cleft lip anthropometry to determine the frequency of the "geometrically unfavorable lateral lip"--short in both vertical and transverse dimensions.

Methods: Direct caliper measurements were taken by a single observer of the heights and of the transverse lengths in 100 consecutive patients (age ≥3 months and <6 months) with unilateral cleft lip (51 complete and 49 incomplete) who were under general anesthesia just before cleft lip repair.

Pilomatricoma: experience of the hospital for sick children.

Background: Pilomatricoma (calcifying epithelioma of Malherbe) is a common skin neoplasm in the pediatric population that is often misdiagnosed as other skin conditions or tumours.

Objectives: The objective of the present retrospective study was to review the clinical and histopathological presentation of this neoplasm in children.

Methods: The records of the pathology department at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, were searched for all cases of pilomatricoma between 2001 and 2006.

Further studies on the clinical efficacy of Solanum xanthocarpum and Solanum trilobatum in bronchial asthma.

The clinical efficacy of two herbs S. xanthocarpum and S. trilobatum in a dose of 300 mg tds for 3 days was investigated in mild to moderate bronchial asthma.

Australian doctors in Bali: the initial medical response to the Bali bombing.

Several Australian medical practitioners were holidaying in Bali at the time of the nightclub bombing on 12 October 2002. On learning of the disaster, they went to Sanglah Hospital to assist. With the very limited resources of the hospital, they helped in providing emergency treatment, stabilising patients, and preparing Australian patients for evacuation.