[Gianotti-Crosti acrodermatitis. Description of a case of rare etiology]. / Acrodermatite di Gianotti-Crosti. Descrizione di un caso ad eziologia rara.

Originally described in 1955, papular acrodermatitis is considered a rare disease whose manifestations are mainly cutaneous. The disease is characteristically associated to a non icteric hepatitis with B serologic tests positive. We recently observed a case whose etiology is unusual and, therefore, in our opinion worth of a brief description.

[Facio-auriculo-vertebral syndrome: description of a case]. / Sindrome facio-auricolo-vertebrale: descrizione di un caso.

The authors report the case of a fourteen months old girl who presented with emisomal, uropoietic and vertebral anomalies associated with neurologic handicap. These features can be considered characteristic of facio-auriculo-vertebral spectrum. This syndrome was not frequently described in Italian pediatric literature.

[Difficult diagnosis in a case of hematuria (Berger's disease)]. / Un caso di ematuria (da M. di Berger) di difficile inquadramento diagnostico.

A seven years old boy presented with gross hematuria associated with clots and transitory renal insufficiency. The urinary sediment showed only monomorphic red blood cells. Subsequently urinary sediment completely modified: namely only dysmorphic red blood cells and hyaline granular casts were found and within a week renal function become normal. The clinical diagnosis of Berger's disease was possible only with renal biopsy.

[A case of septic arthritis with a peculiar clinical presentation]. / Su un caso di artrite settica con particolare presentazione clinica.

The authors report a case of tibial-tarsal septic arthritis caused by a Group A Beta Haemolytic Streptococcus. The primitive pathologic process was an erysipelas with an unusual localization originally of difficult interpretation.