From the Editor’s Desk

Declaring competing interests – Piyush Gupta and Panna Choudhury 3

Original Article

Inappropriate antibiotic prescription to children with acute respiratory infection in Brazil – Antonio Jose Ledo Alves Da Cunha, Joao Amaral and Maria Anice Fonteneic e Silva 7

Viewpoint

Humanized care of preterm babies - Meharban Singh and Ashok K. Deorari 13

Brief Reports

Infantile cystinosis – M. Mirdehghan, A. Ahmadzadeh, M. Bana-Behbabhani, Ismail Motlagh and Bashir Chomali 21

Essential hypertension: antecedents in children – Surekha Joshi, Sanjeev Gupta, Sonali Tank, Sushma Malik and D.S. Salgaonkar 24

Mccune albright syndrome (MCAS): a case series – Sudha Rao, M.P. Colaco, M.P. Desai 29

A study of vitamin K status in children on prolonged antibiotic therapy – Rukhmi V. Bhat and C.T. Deshmukh 36

Medium and long term central venous access in children-  S. Rao, A. Alladi, K. Das and A.J.D. Cruz 41

Case Reports

Pseudohypoparathyroidism in newborn – a rare presentation – Sajitha S, P.N. Krishnamoorthy and U.V. Shenoy 47

Pseudo tumoral laryngeal tuberculosis –Karnail Singh, Gurmeet Kaur and T.L. Parmar 49

Trichotillomania – Mala Bhalla, Rashmi Sarkar, Priti Arun and Amrinder J. Kanwar 52

Hodgkins disease in relapse presenting as bone tumor – Surendra Kumar, Sunita Ferns, B. Vshnu Bhat and D.K. Patro 56

Images in Clinical Practice

Chronic bullous dermatosis of childhood - Ram Gulati, Gautam Bagga  62 

Letters to the Editor

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the diagnosis of fetus-in-fetu – A. Sinha, Y.K. Sarin and M. Sengar 63

Hyperkalemia and ventricular tachycardia in ELBW infant – Daljit Singh, Sourabh Dutta and Anil Narang 64

Professional appearance of pediatrician: children’ and pediatricians’ opinion – A.M.Vijayalakshmi and M. Thinker Vel 66

Truncus arteriosus in fetal hydantoin syndrome – a new association? – Srinivas Murki, Sourabh Dutta and Mahesha V. 69

Prevalence of anemia and worm infestation in school going girls at Gulbarga, Karnataka – Vinod Kumar CS, Anand Kumar H, SunitaV and Indu Kapur 70

Neonatal hypernatremia due to high breast milk sodium – G. Karthikeyan and Neena Modi 72

Reply – Anurag Bajpai, Rajiv Aggarwal, Ashok K Deorari and Vinod K Paul 73

Hib vaccination controversy and the declaration of commercial interest – Vikas Taneja 75

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