Age-Specific Dynamics of Corpus Callosum Development in Children and its Peculiarities in Infantile Cerebral Palsy.

The age dynamics of corpus callosum development was studied on magnetic resonance images of the brain in children aged 2-11 years without neurological abnormalities and with infantile cerebral palsy. The areas of the total corpus callosum and its segments are compared in the midsagittal images. Analysis is carried out with the use of an original formula: proportion of areas of the anterior (genu, CC2; and anterior part, CC3) and posterior (isthmus, CC6 and splenium, CC7) segments: kCC=(CC2+CC3)×CC6/CC7. The results characterize age-specific dynamics of the corpus callosum development and can be used for differentiation, with high confidence, of the brain of children without neurological abnormalities from the brain patients with infantile cerebral palsy.

[Significance of intragastric proteolysis in the diagnosis of pre-ulcer condition in children]. / Znachenie intragastral'nogo proteoliza v diagnostike pred''iazven- nogo sostoianiia u detei.

The authors discuss the two most important trends in the diagnosis of duodenal ulcer at the initial stages of its formation in children: the necessity of a differentiated approach to the assessment of familial predisposition as regards peptic ulcer and validation of a new hypothesis in the pathogenesis of ulcer formation--the genetically determined proteolytic properties of gastric juice and their conjugation to the sex.