EDITORIAL

Bronchial Asthma in Children: Recent knowledge                                                                   533
Lata Kumar

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Beclomethasone dipropionate aerosol therapy in childhood asthma                                      537
A Chetty, S. Roy and K. R. Sunderam

Dynamic lung volumes in children with bronchial asthma                                                      543
G.R. Sethi, Anu Gupta, O.P. Bhatnagar and A.K. Jain

Etiology of Asthma in Rajasthan                                                                                             549
M. Mathur and H.C. Mathur

Pertussis in rural children                                                                                                       553
M.P. Singh, V.K. Srivastava and S.K. Agarwal

Antenatal diagnosis of neural tube defect s – simple cytological examination                                   557
M.A. Phadke, P.D. Pote, V.A. Khedkar, S.L. Kate, L.S. Ranade, A.A. Saraph and M.V. Tembe

Anthropometric measurements and prevalence of LBW in Himachal Pradesh                         561
V.R. Parmar, L. Bahl, K.K. Sood and I. Randhawa

Pulmonary hemorrhage in the newborn: A case control study                                                           567
A.K. Deorari, Meharban Singh, V.K. Paul, N.K. Arora, S. Tickoo and P. Chopra

REVIEW ARTICLE

Vitamin A deficiency                                                                                                                573
G.P. Mathur and K.P. Kushwaha

BRIEF REPORTS

Inhaled foreign bodes                                                                                                                         583
M.M. Beg, Reyazuddin and A. Hasan

Short-rib polydactyly syndrome type I (Saldino-noonan)                                                       585
G.G. Christo, V. Subbalaxmi Murthy, RD Kapadia, Cyril Xavier and A. Venkatesh

MURCS association                                                                                                                  588
V.U. Vaidya, S.J. Sidhva, B.A. Bharucha, T.Y. Kagalwala and N.B. Kumta

Arachnoidal cysts                                                                                                                    592
S. Kumar, B. Prakash, R.L.S. Sengar and V. Puri

Subcutaneous emphysema as a complicating measles                                                                        595
P. Chaturvedi, A.A. Elzouki, V.N. Chaturvedi and N.B. Mathur

Maternal hyperthermia as a teratogenic agent                                                                                    597
G.G. Christo, M.S. Urala, H.V. Duvvi and A. Venkatesh

Xerophthalmia in under-five children in West Bengal                                                              600
B Chakraborty and A.R. Bhattacharya

Aminophylline in neonatal diazepam intoxication                                                                   602
A Kumar, Man Mohan and N.K. Anand

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Congenital lobar emphysema                                                                                                  605
V.D. Charan and S.K. Behera

Chylothorax                                                                                                                             606
K. Chakrabarti

Keratomalacia in Soyal fed infants                                                                                          607
R.P. Singh, R.K. Marwaha and A. Shenoi

Hemolytic uremic syndrome associated with Salmonella typhimurium                                              608
A Moudgil, M.K. Bhan and V. Khoshoo