A case of Mixed Connective Tissue Disease (MCTD) in an 11 years-old girl is reported. This is the first reported in the Department of Child Health, Faculty of Medicine University of Indonesia/Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Jakarta. In the beginning, the diagnosis was established as scleroderma based on the clinical picture of the skin lesion and the result of the skin biopsy. Laboratory exami…
Objective: To find out the epidemiologic data of pathogenic intestinal protozoa in diarrheal children and to see the clinical features of pathogenic intestinal protozoa infection in various nutritional status. This study was also aimed to see the relationship between pathogenic intestinal protozoa infections and nutritional status. Method: This study was carried out in dr. Syaiful Anwar Teachin…
A retrospective study had been done on hospitalized infants and children at Panyabungan Hospital in South Tapanuli Residence, during the period of 1992. During this period there were 367 patients. Most of them-135 (36.78 percent) were suffered from acute gastroenteritis; the other diagnoses were 76 (20.71 percent) acute bronchopneumonia, 70 (19.07 percent) malaria. 18 (4.9 percent) typhoid feve…