Anales españoles de pediatría
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Two cases of benign intracraneal hypertension or pseudotumor cerebri, associated with non specific infective illness, in infants are reported. Presenting symptoms were vomiting, irritability and bulging anterior fontanelle. Both infants had rapid resolution of their symptoms after lumbar puncture, although the second case had recurrences with further febrile diseases. We suggest that a non specific infective illness can interfere transiently with cerebrospinal fluid dynamics.
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Ten newborn infants with transient neonatal pustular melanosis are reported. The incidence (0.59%), the most noticeable clinical aspects and the differential diagnosis are pointed out. We report with special emphasis the presence of eosinophils in the smears from skin lesions. The authors think that transient neonatal pustular melanosis and erythema toxicum neonatorum are, probably, two different clinical expressions of the same entity.