Core Professionalism Education in Surgery: A Systematic Review.

Background: Professionalism education is one of the major elements of surgical residency education.

Aims: To evaluate the studies on core professionalism education programs in surgical professionalism education.

Study Design: Systematic review.

Intestinal perforation caused by multiple magnet ingestion.

Multiple magnet ingestion is rare, but can cause serious gastrointestinal complications. We report a case of 7-year-old girl with multiple intestinal perforations caused by multiple magnet ingestion. The aim of this report is to draw attention to magnetic toys, results of magnet ingestion and the importance of timing of operation.

Knowledge, attitude and behaviour of boys and parents about circumcision.

Aim: To determine the knowledge, attitude and behaviour of parents and previously circumcised early adolescent boys about circumcision.

Methods: Half of the boys attending the sixth class of the primary school in our city centre and their parents were included in this cross-sectional, descriptive study. Questionnaires were prepared by the authors, which include 38 questions for parents and 25 questions for boys.

A rare presentation of crush injury: transanal small bowel evisceration. Case report and review of the literature.

Evisceration of the small intestine through the anus is an extremely rare event in children. We report a 2-year-old boy who sustained transanal small bowel evisceration associated with bilateral diaphragmatic rupture, left diaphragmatic herniation, and spinal cord injury without radiographic abnormality which happened after crushing by motor vehicle. We reviewed children with transanal small bowel evisceration and discussed etiological differences between children and adult.

Effects of retinoic acid and zinc on the treatment of caustic esophageal burns.

Purpose: An experimental study was carried out to investigate the efficacy of an anti-inflammatory and antiproliferative agent all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) and an antioxidant agent zinc sulphate (ZnSO(4)) in the prevention of stricture after caustic esophageal burn in rats.

Methods: Esophageal burn was induced using 50% NaOH. Rats were divided into four groups as follows: group A (sham; n = 8), group B (control; n = 8), group C (treated with ATRA; n = 8) and group D (treated with ZnSO(4); n = 8).

Association of rare intestinal malformations: colonic atresia and intestinal neuronal dysplasia.

A single case of colonic atresia (CA) associated with type A intestinal neuronal dysplasia has been reported in the literature. This article describes a newborn with CA associated with diffuse type B intestinal neuronal dysplasia. A 2-day-old fullterm boy presented with marked abdominal distention, milk intolerance, and bilious vomiting.

A different aspect of corrosive ingestion in children: socio-demographic characteristics and effect of family functioning.

Objective: Corrosive ingestion is thoroughly investigated in terms of its complications and treatment modalities but to date family functioning, behavior, attitude and knowledge of mothers of children who ingested corrosives has not been investigated and socio-demographic data has rarely been mentioned. Therefore a study was planned to investigate the socio-demographic data, family functioning, knowledge, behavior and attitude of mothers of children who ingested corrosive materials.

Methods: The mothers of 50 children who ingested corrosive materials and 60 controls were asked to answer a questionnaire which included socio-demographic data and questions about their attitude, behavior and knowledge of corrosive ingestion.

Are tonsils a reservoir for Helicobacter pylori infection in children?

Objective: Helicobacter pylori (H. Pylori) has been associated with the development of gastritis, peptic ulcer and gastric cancer. Although H.

Cost factors in pediatric trauma.

Introduction: There is a lack of information on the cost of treating trauma in children in developing countries. Therefore, in the pediatric emergency unit of a university hospital in Turkey, we prospectively investigated the cost factors of pediatric trauma and attempted to identify cost predictors.

Methods: We prepared questionnaires and charts for 91 children (50 boys, 41 girls) admitted with multiple trauma to obtain data on age, gender, date and mechanism of injury, site of injury, type of the treatment and length of hospital stay.

The role of elevated liver transaminase levels in children with blunt abdominal trauma.

The role of serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT) and serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase (SGPT) levels on intra-abdominal injury in children has not been adequately studied. In this report, the accuracy of these tests in predicting the degree and extend of intra-abdominal and hepatic injury in children with blunt abdominal trauma was investigated.Eighty-seven haemodynamically stable children with multiple trauma were prospectively evaluated.

[Epidemiologic evaluation of trauma cases admitted to a pediatric emergency service].

Background: This study was performed to contribute epidemiological data about pediatric trauma registry in our country.

Methods: Ninety-four children with trauma who were admitted to the Pediatric Emergency Clinic of our hospital were prospectively evaluated.

Results: Forty-five percent patients were female and 55% were male with a mean age of 79+52 months.