1. Editorial note: Thanks to John Opitz

   • L. Corbeel
   • J. Spranger

   EditorialNotes Pages: 117 - 117

2. The pioneers of pediatric medicine

   • H. -R. Wiedemann

   Announcement Pages: 118 - 118

3. Ettore Rossi: on the occasion of his 70th birthday

   • H. -R. Wiedemann

   Announcement Pages: 119 - 119

4. Local therapy of rhabdomyosarcoma, osteosarcoma and Ewing's sarcoma of children and adolescents

   • G. Prindull
   • H. -G. Willert
   • G. Notter

   Review Pages: 120 - 124

5. Severe combined immunodeficiency: treatment by bone marrow transplantation in 15 infants using HLA-haploidentical donors

   • W. Friedrich
   • S. F. Goldmann
   • E. Kleihauer

   Original Investigations Pages: 125 - 130

6. Cerebral gigantism (Sotos syndrome). Compiled data of 22 cases

   • J. M. Wit
   • F. A. Beemer
   • N. J. Leschot

   Original Investigations Pages: 131 - 140

7. Growth in Cushing syndrome

   • R. Voutilainen
   • S. Leisti
   • J. Perheentupa

   Original Investigations Pages: 141 - 145

8. Growth and sexual development in children with meningomyleocoele

   • S. A. Greene
   • M. Frank
   • A. Prader

   Original Investigations Pages: 146 - 148

9. Epilepsy and associated handicaps in a 1 year birth cohort in Northern Finland

   • L. v. Wendt
   • P. Rantakallio
   • H. Mäkinen

   Original Investigations Pages: 149 - 151

10. Serum zinc and copper levels in children with meningococcal disease

    • H. De V. Heese
    • C. S. Ryder
    • M. Power

    Original Investigations Pages: 152 - 156

11. Arrhythmia or myocarditis: a novel clinical form of Legionella pneumophila infection in children without pneumonia

    • M. Castellani Pastoris
    • G. Nigro
    • M. Midulla

    Original Investigations Pages: 157 - 159

12. Hepatitis B vaccination and immune response in children with malignant diseases

    • U. Entacher
    • O. Jürgenssen
    • W. Frisch-Niggemeyer

    Original Investigations Pages: 160 - 163

13. Biphasic (early and late) asthematic responses to exercise in children with severe asthma, resident at high altitude

    • A. Boner
    • E. Niero
    • J. O. Warner

    Original Investigations Pages: 164 - 166

14. Serum immunoreactive trypsin and pancreatic lipase in cystic fibrosis

    • R. Bollbach
    • M. Becker
    • H. W. Rotthauwe

    Original Investigations Pages: 167 - 170

15. Inter-laboratory quality control in neonatal screening for inborn errors of metabolism

    • D. Mathias
    • H. Bickel

    Original Investigations Pages: 171 - 173

16. Homozygous hypobetalipoproteinaemia and phenylketonuria

    • J. U. Leititis
    • M. Stahl
    • A. Wildberg

    OriginalPaper Pages: 174 - 176

17. Dizygotic twins with 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaric aciduria; unusual presentation, family studies and dietary management

    • T. E. Stacey
    • C. de Sousa
    • R. A. Chalmers

    Original Investigations Pages: 177 - 181

18. Analysis of proliferating lymphocyte subpopulations in newborns and adults

    • H. Schneider

    Original Investigations Pages: 182 - 185

19. Development of the intestinal flora in very low birth weight infants compared to normal full-term newborns

    • H. Sakata
    • H. Yoshioka
    • K. Fujita

    Original Investigations Pages: 186 - 190

20. Anticoagulant therapy by continuous heparin-abtithrombin III infusion in newborns with disseminated intravascular coagulation

    • R. von Kries
    • H. Stannigel
    • U. Göbel

    Original Investigations Pages: 191 - 194

21. Artificial surfactant in preterm rabbits with and without respiratory distress syndrome: difference of in vitro and in vivo activities

    • M. Obladen
    • W. Kampmann
    • B. Lachmann

    Original Investigations Pages: 195 - 199

22. Myelofibrosis arising in treated histiocytosis X

    • D. J. Sartoris
    • D. Resnick

    Short Communications Pages: 200 - 202

23. Fructose-1,6-diphosphatase deficiency: glycerol excretion during fasting test

    • P. A. Dremsek
    • M. Sacher
    • C. Bachmann

    Short Communications Pages: 203 - 204

24. Obstructive sleep apnoea probably related to a foreign body

    • Alberto Leiberman
    • Pablo Yagupsky
    • Peretz Lavie

    Short Communications Pages: 205 - 206

25. Capillary sampling as an alternative to venous sampling for blood culture in neonates

    • C. H. Schröder
    • L. A. A. Kollée
    • H. L. Muytjens

    Letters to the Editors Pages: 206 - 206

26. Aplastic anaemia induced by intravenous phenytoin and lidocaine administration

    • Shigeru Tomita
    • Toru Kurokawa
    • Shun Higuchi

    Letters to the Editors Pages: 207 - 208

27. The importance of the lymphatic system

    • J. R. Casley-Smith

    Letters to the Editors Pages: 208 - 208

28. Prenatal diagnosis of tyrosinaemia type I by use of stable isotope dilution mass spectrometry

    • C. Jakobs
    • E. A. Kvittingen
    • M. Niermeijer

    Letters to the Editors Pages: 209 - 210

29. Recovery of vaccinal poliovirus type 1 from conjunctiva of an infant with transient, unilateral conjunctivitis

    • R. R. Mirkovic
    • D. W. Lamberts
    • J. Dolen

    Letters to the Editors Pages: 210 - 211