1. The pioneers of pediatric medicine

   • H. -R. Wiedemann

   Announcement Pages: 215 - 215

2. Bacterial meningitis: is there a “best” antimicrobial therapy?

   • H. F. Eichenwald

   Annotation Pages: 216 - 220

3. Non-ketotic hyperglycinaemia: clinical and biochemical aspects

   • K. Tada
   • K. Hayasaka

   Review Pages: 221 - 227

4. “Peripheral” tetrahydrobiopterin deficiency with hyperphenylalaninaemia due to incomplete 6-pyruvoyl tetrahydropterin synthase deficiency or heterozygosity

   • A. Niederwieser
   • H. Shintaku
   • W. Endres

   Original Investigations Pages: 228 - 232

5. Pineal region tumours of childhood

   • F. J. Schulte
   • H. D. Herrmann
   • S. Bartels

   Original Investigations Pages: 233 - 245

6. 131-metaiodobenzylguanedine therapy of neuroblastoma in childhood

   • D. Schwabe
   • St. Sahm
   • B. Kornhuber

   Original Investigations Pages: 246 - 250

7. Jejunal mucosa lymphoid cell subsets and the expression of major histocompatibility complex antigens in children

   • M. Tshibassu
   • K. Geboes
   • V. Desmet

   Original Investigations Pages: 251 - 256

8. Lack of mitogenic effects of growth hormone on human leukemic lymphoblasts

   • J. Blatt
   • S. Wenger
   • P. A. Lee

   Original Investigations Pages: 257 - 260

9. Presenting symptoms and natural history of Wilson disease

   • T. Saito

   Original Investigations Pages: 261 - 265

10. 45,X/46,XY mosaicism

    • J. Knudtzon
    • D. Aarskog

    Original Investigations Pages: 266 - 271

11. The effect of treatment with an LH-RH agonist (Buserelin) on gonadal activity growth and bone maturation in children with central precocious puberty

    • S. L. S. Drop
    • R. J. H. Odink
    • M. Meradji

    Original Investigations Pages: 272 - 278

12. Prostaglandin E₂ administration in infants with ductus-dependent cyanotic congenital heart disease

    • B. D. Thanopoulos
    • A. Andreou
    • C. Frimas

    Original Investigations Pages: 279 - 282

13. Pathologic features in two siblings with the Pena-Shokeir I syndrome

    • M. Bisceglia
    • L. Zelante
    • B. Dallapiccola

    Original Investigations Pages: 283 - 287

14. Regional cerebral metabolic rate for glucose in subacute sclerosing panencephalitis

    • K. Yanai
    • K. Iinuma
    • T. Matsuzawa

    Short Communications Pages: 288 - 289

15. Fulminant hepatitis during treatment with Rifampicin, pyrazinamid and ethambutol

    • W. M. C. van Aalderen
    • H. Knoester
    • K. Knol

    Short Communications Pages: 290 - 291

16. Osteomalacia of the mother —rickets of the newborn

    • W. Park
    • H. Paust
    • G. Offermann

    Short Communications Pages: 292 - 293

17. Subacute zinc deficiency in children with recurrent upper respiratory tract infection

    • J. P. van Wouwe
    • H. H. van Gelderen
    • J. H. Bos

    Short Communications Pages: 293 - 295

18. Anti-glomerular basement membrane antibody-mediated glomerulonephritis due to glue sniffing

    • K. -E. Bonzel
    • D. E. Müller-Wiefel
    • M. Weber

    Case Reports Pages: 296 - 300

19. Median cleft face syndrome in association with hydrocephalus, agenesis of the corpus callosum, holoprosencephaly and choanal atresia

    • T. Bömelburg
    • W. Lenz
    • T. Eusterbrock

    Case Reports Pages: 301 - 302

20. Primary hypomagnesaemia

    • K. I. Dudin
    • A. S. Teebi

    Case Reports Pages: 303 - 305

21. Acute intermittent porphyria —an unusual cause of “surgical” abdomen

    • I. Srugo
    • E. Said
    • M. Jaffe

    Case Reports Pages: 305 - 308

22. Acute selenium poisoning of a 2-year-old child

    • I. Lombeck
    • H. Menzel
    • D. Frosch

    Case Reports Pages: 308 - 312

23. Lipoprotein-X and diagnosis of biliary atresia

    • K. P. Fung
    • Y. Tazawa

    Letters to the Editors Pages: 312 - 312

24. Lipoprotein X, gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase and biliary atresia

    • J. Deutsch
    • R. Kurz
    • Y. Tazawa

    Letters to the Editors Pages: 313 - 314

25. European Society for Paediatric Haematology and Immunology (E.S.P.H.I.)

    • Organizers, European Society for Paediatric Haematology and Immunology (E.S.P.H.I.)

    Abstracts Pages: 315 - 343