Volume 46 Issue 3 (2004)

Published: September 28, 2004

Original Articles

A new concept of skeletal dysplasias
Antioxidant enzymes in red blood cells and lymphocytes of ataxia-telangiectasia patients
Defective anti-polysaccharide antibody response in patients with ataxia-telangiectasia
The incidence and risk factors of neural tube defects in Izmir, Turkey: a nested case-control study
The prevalence of asthma and allergic diseases in children of school age in Adana in southern Turkey
Latex allergy and associated risk factors in a group of Turkish patients with spina bifida
Serum leptin levels of premature and full-term newborns in early infancy: metabolic catch-up of premature babies
Alternative prognostic factors in pediatric embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma: Nm23 expression, proliferative activity and angiogenesis
The relationships between candidemia and candidal colonization and virulence factors of the colonizing strains in preterm infants
Pediatric blood culture: time to positivity

Case Reports

Acute arterial thrombotic purpura complicating varicella and the role of hyperbaric oxygen as an adjunctive therapy
Back to the basics: hemorrhage after vaccination: a case report
Effectiveness of somatostatin in the conservative management of chylothorax
Thrombocytopenic purpura as only manifestation of brucellosis in a child
Endobronchial stenting in a two-month-old infant with bronchial compression secondary to tetralogy of Fallot and absent pulmonary valve
A case of patent ductus venosus with pulmonary arterio-venous fistula as a rare and unique clinical entity
Perigraft seroma complicating the modified Blalock-Taussig shunts: two consecutive instances with review of literature
Pyogenic liver abscesses in a child spreading to pulmonary and subcutaneous tissues: case report
Prenatal diagnosis of Meckel-Gruber syndrome and Dandy-Walker malformation in four consecutive affected siblings, with the fourth one being diagnosed prenatally at 22 weeks of gestation
Successful treatment of enterocutaneous fistula in a premature newborn by using octreotide

Letter to the Editor

Mega dose methylprednisolone (MDMP) treatment