EDITORIAL

Sarcoidosis in children                           315
Om P. Sharma

SPECIAL ARTICLE

Health status of children in Afghanistan                                      317
Meharban Singh

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Perinatal leukemia: the surface antigens, cytochemistry and cytogenetic features                          325
R.P. Warrier, Abbas Emami, Yaddanapudi Ravindranath, Susuma Inoue and Joseph Kaplan

Total dose iron infusion during third trimester to iron deficient mothers and its influences on anemia of early infancy                  335
Mohammed Amir, S.H. Ahmed, Zeenat Ansari, A.K. Dutta and Intizar Hussain

Metoclopromide in lactational failure                                                   341
B.K. Rath, O.P. Ghai, M.K. Bhan, N.K. Arora, V. Dhar, D. Thakkar and N.K. Dhamija

Nutritional status and psycho-social stress in children with Pica
Pratibha Singhi and Sunit Singhi

Screening of the newborns for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase Deficiency                                  351
Pervin Ahmed and K.N. Ahmed

An evaluation of the pre-school supplementary feeding programme in Chandigarh                       357
Parveen Chawla and Ramesh Puri

Impact of pre-school supplementary feeding programme on anthropometry                                     363
Parveen Chawla and Ramesh Puri

Neonatal hematological values in maternal anemia                           369
R.M.D. Agarwal, A.M. Tripathi and K.N. Agarwal

BRIEF REPORTS

Neonatal appendicular perforation                                       373
K. Yadav, A. Narang, K.L.N. Rao and Sudershan Kumar

Siblings with Larsen’s syndrome                             375
B.A. Bharucha, A.S. Savliwala, G.V. Koppikar and N.B. Kumta

Mucopolysaccharidosis VI (Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome)                                 378
S. Thomas, P.S.N. Menon, A. Khurana, M. Irshad and M.A. Khan

Systemic and nduro-sarcoidosis in a child                                             380
Samir K. Gupta and Shyamal Chatterjee

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Congenital hypothyroidism                                          383
N.C. De

Lower esophageal foreign body in a neonate                                                384
Amit Banerjee and B.K. Rao

Perforated duodenal ulcer                                                                385
R.K. Kaushal, Anil Narang, S.K. Mitra and G.R. Prasad

Phimosis and the preputial calculus                                   386
S.K. Sharma

Breast feeding                                                              387
Umesh Kapil

BOOK REVIEW

Mental retardation                                                    388
N.B. Kumta