Stump appendicitis in children: a systematic review.

Background: Stump appendicitis is a rare complication after primary appendectomy and is often not considered in the differential diagnosis of patients who have undergone an appendectomy. With this systematic review, the aim was to identify all cases of stump appendicitis in children in order to gain a better insight into the risk factors, clinical presentation, diagnostics, and treatment.

Methods: Scopus and PubMed databases were searched.

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Most Common Diagnoses in Pediatric Surgery: Abdominal Pain, Acute Scrotum, Upper and Lower Extremity Injuries-Tertiary Center Experience.

Objective: The coronavirus disease-19 pandemic has brought new patterns of behavior among patients and their parents. The reorganization of the health care system has reduced the number of elective surgical procedures in Croatia. In our study, we were interested in whether the pandemic has caused a statistically significant decrease in the number of examinations of children in the emergency department according to the most common diagnoses in pediatric surgery and whether there was a decrease in the number of emergency surgeries.

[A rare tumor of the lung in childhood--inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor].

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) is a rare benign neoplasm, mainly involving the lungs of the children. It represents 0.7% of all lung tumors.

Cystic lymphangioma of jejunal mesentery mimicking acute appendicitis: case report.

Cystic lymphangiomas of the small bowel mesentery are rare manifestations of intra-abdominal tumors. Usually, they are discovered incidentally during examination for an unrelated abdominal illness. We present a case of a 4-year-old boy who was admitted to our hospital because of the right lower quadrant acute abdominal pain suspect of acute appendicitis.

Pseudoaneurysm of the brachial artery in a four-month-old boy: diagnosis and treatment.

Pseudoaneurysms arise from a disruption in the arterial wall and blood dissecting into the tissues around the damaged artery creating a perfused sac that communicates with the arterial lumen. Trauma to the wall of the artery may lead to the development of a pseudoaneurysm. Post-traumatic pseudoaneurysm development is very rare in the peripheral artery and often is a consequence of venipuncture.

A 10-year experience in the treatment of intraabdominal cerebrospinal fluid pseudocysts.

The aim of this retrospective study was to assess a ten-year experience in the treatment of rare complications of ventriculoperitoneal shunting--intraabdominal cerebrospinal fluid pseudocysts. At this time there are no data about incidence, clinical course and treatment of these complications in Croatia. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) abdominal pseudocyst is an uncommon but important complication of ventriculoperitoneal shunts.

Primary spontaneous pneumothorax in pediatric patients: our 7-year experience.

Background: Primary spontaneous pneumothorax in children is a significant clinical problem. The majority of these patients will require immediate surgical therapy, such as tube thoracostomy.

Patients And Methods: We conducted a retrospective review of 16 patients with a diagnosis of primary spontaneous pneumothorax over a period of 7 years.

Central venous catheters for chemotherapy of solid tumors--our results in the last 5 years.

Central venous catheters provide an easy access for intravenous medications. Having a central line in place will relieve a child from the discomfort and danger of multiple regular intravenous lines for chemotherapy. The use of indwelling central venous catheters has become commonplace in the management of children undergoing oncological treatment.

Treatment of rectal prolapse in children with cow milk injection sclerotherapy: 30-year experience.

Aim: To evaluate the role and our experience of injection sclerotherapy with cow milk in the treatment of rectal prolapse in children.

Methods: In the last 30 years (1976-2006) we made 100 injections of sclerotherapy with cow milk in 86 children. In this study we included children who failed to respond to conservative treatment and we perform operative treatment.

Has Ombrëdanne's method of hypospadic urethra reconstruction been ignored with reason?

From January 1970 to December 1979 inclusive, 193 boys (aged 2 to 16) underwent surgery for distal hypospadia using Ombredanne's method at the Department of Pediatric Surgery University Hospital Center Rijeka and at the Department of Pediatric Surgery Zagreb. Follow-up period was 7 to 20 years (mean 13.4).

A 3-year experience of a minimally invasive technique for correction of pectus excavatum in Croatia.

The aim of this study was to assess the early results of a three-year experience with the minimally invasive correction of pectum excavatum, which requires no cartilage incision or excision, and no sternal osteotomy. Since 2001 we have performed 35 minimally invasive pectus excavatum procedures at our hospital. A convex steel bar is inserted under the sternum through small bilateral incisions, and removed after 2 years when permanent remolding had occured, the bar is removed.

Papillary cystic neoplasm of the pancreas: a rare presentation.

Unlabelled: Papillary cystic neoplasm is a rare tumor and is usually found in young female patients.

Procedure: Here we describe a rare case of PCN in 16 year old girl, which was presented with abdominal pain in last 3 years. Preoperative diagnosis was suggested by ECHO and CT of the abdomen.