Introduction: Although laparoscopic appendectomy is standard management for appendicitis, management of the appendiceal stump remains debated. Even though most surgeons can agree on the safety and effectiveness of various closure methods for the appendiceal stump, such as the surgical stapler (SS) or the Endoloop, the cost of these methods should also be considered. A relatively new alternative method, the polymeric clips (PC), has been gaining acceptance in the surgical community as it has repeatedly proven to be as safe as other methods, while being significantly cheaper.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Data examining rates of postoperative complications among SARS-CoV-2 positive children are limited. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of symptomatic and asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 positive status on postoperative respiratory outcomes for children.
Methods: This retrospective cohort study included SARS-CoV-2 positive pediatric patients across 20 hospitals who underwent general anesthesia from March to October 2020.
Background And Objectives: High-powered magnets are among the most dangerous childhood foreign bodies. Consumer advocates and physicians have called for these products to be effectively banned, but manufacturers assert warning labels would sufficiently mitigate risk.
Methods: Subjects from Injuries, Morbidity, and Parental Attitudes Concerning Tiny High-powered Magnets (IMPACT of Magnets), a retrospective, multicenter study of children with high-powered magnet exposures (ie, ingestion or bodily insertion), were contacted.
Objective: To assess the clinical implications of cryoanalgesia for pain management in children undergoing minimally invasive repair of pectus excavatum (MIRPE).
Background: MIRPE entails significant pain management challenges, often requiring high postoperative opioid use. Cryoanalgesia, which blocks pain signals by temporarily ablating intercostal nerves, has been recently utilized as an analgesic adjunct.
Background: Optimal inguinal hernia repair timing remains controversial. It remains unclear how COVID-19 related elective surgery cancellations impacted timing of inguinal hernia repair and whether any delays led to complications. This study aims to determine whether elective surgery cancellations are safe in pediatric inguinal hernia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBACKGROUND Several factors contribute to keloids in post-operative patients, including skin mechanics, genetics, and inflammatory processes. One of the most widely used treatment modalities for keloidal scars involves the intralesional injection of corticosteroids, such as triamcinolone acetonide (TAC). TAC is a first-line treatment option for keloids due to its proven efficacy and effectiveness in reducing collagen synthesis, glycosaminoglycan synthesis, inflammatory processes, and proliferation of fibroblasts.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Objectives: High-powered magnets were effectively removed from the US market by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in 2012 but returned in 2016 after federal court decisions. The United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit cited imprecise data among other reasons as justification for overturning CPSC protections. Since then, incidence of high-powered magnet exposure has increased markedly, but outcome data are limited.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Inguinal hernia repairs are among the most common operations performed by pediatric surgeons. Laparoscopic high ligation is a popular technique, but its recurrence rate in adolescents is unknown. We hypothesized that recurrence after laparoscopic high ligation in adolescents would be similar to open repair (1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Biliary dyskinesia (BD) is a common indication for pediatric cholecystectomy. While diagnosis is primarily based on diminished gallbladder ejection fraction (GB-EF), work-up and management in pediatrics is controversial.
Methods: We conducted a multi-institutional retrospective review of children undergoing cholecystectomy for BD to compare perioperative work-up and outcomes.
J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A
April 2019
Recently, a 5 mm laparoscopic stapler entered the market and is currently used for a wide variety of pediatric applications. The aim of this article is to be the first report of the use of this 5 mm laparoscopic stapler for open neonatal intestinal anastomosis in humans. We used JustRight (Justright Surgical) 5 mm laparoscopic stapler in 5 patients, with a total of six anastomoses being constructed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTesticular torsion and acute incarcerated inguinal hernia are both common surgical emergencies in the paediatric population. We present the unusual case of a 16-year-old adolescent boy who presented with both of these conditions concurrently. He had a history of a right inguinal hernia, but ultrasound confirmed a testicular torsion and we employed manual detorsion in the emergency department prior to taking him to the operating room.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Purpose: Most of the current literature concerning laparoscopy in patients with cryptorchidism reports on those with nonpalpable testes. The purpose of this study is to share our experience and outcome in laparoscopic orchiopexy on patients with palpable undescended testes.
Patients And Methods: From January 1999 to July 2014, 240 cryptorchid testes were treated of which 192 (155 patients) were palpable and were operated on by laparoscopy.
Introduction: Minimally invasive techniques have been used to treat vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) on pediatric patients. The aim of this study is to review the experience of the laparoscopic approach for VUR by the laparoscopic extravesical ureteral reimplantation (LEVUR) Lich-Gregoir technique.
Materials And Methods: We performed a multicentric retrospective study.
J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A
June 2012
Introduction: About 0.2-10% of patients with prior orchiopexy will require reoperation for recurrent cryptorchidism. The most common approach for these patients has been an open inguinal repeat orchiopexy.
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February 2010
Background: There have been descriptions of several techniques for congenital inguinal hernia (CIH) repair in the pediatric population by doing high ligation of the sac, without a definitive advantage over the open procedure. High recurrence rates have been reported with using these minimally invasive techniques in which the patent processus vaginalis has been ligated and left in place completely or partially.
Methods: With approval of the ethics committee, a proper informed consent was obtained.
J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A
February 2009
Background: Choledochal cyst (CDC) is a rare biliary disorder. Surgical treatment consists of CDC excision and biliary-enteric reconstruction. Recently, some institutions have reported successful CDC excision by using minimally invasive techniques.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The use of minimally invasive surgery (MIS) in the neonatal population is increasing. Thoracoscopic intervention for congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is no exception. In this report, we describe our initial experience with thoracoscopic repair of left-sided diaphragmatic defects in neonates.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDuring the laparoscopic approach of undescended testis, an associated inguinal hernia is a frequent finding that must be treated at the same time. The objective of this presentation is to show the incidence and management of the inguinal hernia that were found during laparoscopic orchidopexy, reporting how the scar tissue will join the edges of the canal and the parietal peritoneum will grow above. Between January 1999 and December 2002, 31 patients with 33 palpable and nonpalpable undescended testes were treated by laparoscopic orchidopexy.
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June 2006
Background: Most recent reports of laparoscopic orchiopexy concern nonpalpable testes. We report the results of this approach in patients with undescended palpable testes.
Materials And Methods: Between January 1999 and September 2004, 28 patients with 30 undescended palpable testes were treated by laparoscopic orchiopexy performed by the same surgeon.
J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A
June 2006
Introduction: Laparoscopy may have a place in the treatment of vesicoureteral reflux. In this study, we present the results of laparoscopic extravesical transperitoneal treatment in 15 children (19 ureters) of vesicoureteral reflux.
Materials And Methods: Between January 2001 and February 2004, 15 children (11 with unilateral and 4 with bilateral vesicoureteral reflux) were treated with extravesical reimplantation (Lich- Gregoir technique) via a transperitoneal laparoscopic approach.