Innominate Artery Pseudoaneurysm Requiring Cartilage Tracheal Repair in a Child.

Mycotic aneurysms are rare but potentially catastrophic. We report a case of an innominate artery pseudoaneurysm in a 4-year-old patient that caused a tracheoinnominate fistula requiring tracheoplasty with a costal cartilage graft and a homograft iliac artery replacement of the diseased innominate artery, with a successful outcome.

Esophageal Cancer with Early Onset in a Patient with Cri du Chat Syndrome.

Background: In Cri du Chat (CdC), cancer as comorbidity is extremely rare. In databases from Denmark, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, no cancer was reported; in Italy and Germany, four cancers were identified out of 321 CdCs.

Methods: In a 29-year-old CdC patient, clinical investigations following hematemesis led to the diagnosis of esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC).

Stereo-EEG tailored resection in a child with presumed perinatal post-stroke epilepsy: The complex organization of epileptogenic zone.

Introduction: Only a few studies have focused on tailored resection in post-stroke epilepsy, in which hemispherectomy and hemispherotomy are the most recognized treatments.

Case Description: We describe the case of a patient with drug-resistant, presumed perinatal, post-stroke epilepsy and moderate right hemiparesis. The seizures were stereotyped, both spontaneous and induced by sudden noises and somatosensory stimuli.

A case report of truncus arteriosus with intact ventricular septum and crossed branch pulmonary arteries.

Background: Truncus arteriosus (TA) or persistent arterial trunk describes the presence of a solitary arterial trunk arising from the base of the heart, supported by a common ventriculoarterial junction. The trunk gives rise to the coronary arteries, systemic arteries, and at least one pulmonary artery. Truncus arteriosus is a rare congenital cardiac disease, and even rarer is the absence of ventricular septal defect.