In this paper, by using Leray-Schauder degree arguments and critical point theory for convex, lower semicontinuous perturbations of C 1 -functionals, we obtain existence of classical positive radial solutions for Dirichlet problems of type div ∇vHere, B(R) = {x ∈ R N : |x| < R} and f : [0, R] × [0, α) → R is a continuous function, which is positive on (0, R] × (0, α).