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OBJECTIVE To evaluate the functional and cosmetic results and patient satisfaction after triple incision plasty for phimosis in children. PATIENTS AND METHODS The study included 197 boys who had a triple incision for phimosis (mean age 5.8 years, range 0.25–18). The indications for preputial surgery were recurrent balanoposthitis, ballooning during micturition and severe phimotic stenosis. The results after surgery were assessed using a questionnaire about the child’s/parent's satisfaction, and an outpatient follow-up examination for functional and cosmetic preputial appearance. RESULTS Of 128 parents/children responding, 108 (84%) were satisfied with the function and 102 (80%) reported a good cosmetic outcome. Triple incision as preputioplasty would be recommended to other parents by 119 (93%) respondents. Ninety-one (71%) of the parents feared disadvantages in their son's later life if the child had been circumcised. The outpatient examination showed an excellent functional and cosmetic outcome in 71 (77%) of the children. CONCLUSION Triple incision is a simple, fast and safe technique for preputial relief, with good functional and cosmetic results, and was well accepted by the patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To date, the investigation of the antisaccade task, simple test of "executive functions," in children with ADHD has yielded inconsistent results. The present study aimed at contributing to this issue by (a) the investigation of a large sample of carefully diagnosed ADHD patients aged 7-15 years, and (b) the analyses of differential age effects in patients and controls. Healthy control children were pairwise matched with patients (N = 46; age = 136 ± 24 months) for age and gender, and did not significantly differ in IQ. Horizontal pro- and antisaccades were elicited under the 200-ms gap and overlap conditions (blocks of 100 trials each). Overall, patients exhibited (a) augmented pro- and antisaccadic reaction times, (b) augmented error rates (antitasks), (c) augmented proportions of early responses (all conditions), and (d) reduced proportions of express saccades under the prosaccadic gap condition.The greater decline in anti-as compared to pro-SRT with increasing age that characterized controls was missing in patients. Confirming Barkley's (1997) neuropsychological theory of ADHD, these results altogether point to alterations in "executive functions" in ADHD patients that are presumably supported by frontal lobe structures, in particular the lateral prefrontal cortex nd the frontal eye fields. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses results of a study assessing the four-week test-retest stability of the saccadic central nervous system and saccadic reaction times (SRT) during selected neuropsychological tests of schizophrenics. SRT test-retest correlations; Fixation point; Frontal lobe blood flow in schizophrenics versus normal controls.