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Serum zinc levels are lower in children with febrile seizures than in those with epileptic seizures and normal children. Zinc supplementation of children at risk of febrile seizures requires further study.

Primary tumors of the heart are exceedingly rare with a prevalence rate of around 0.01% in autopsy studies. A majority of primary cardiac tumors are benign. Rhabdomyomas are the most common of benign pediatric cardiac tumors. A newborn female infant presented with perioral cyanosis and respiratory distress. She deteriorated progressively. The infant expired, and at autopsy, dissection of the heart revealed a large tumor mass in the interventricular septum. Histologically, the mass showed the classic "spider cells," and a diagnosis of cardiac rhabdomyoma of childhood was established.