Primary Neuroendocrine Breast Carcinoma in a 13-Year-Old Girl: Ultrasonography and Pathology Findings.

Neuroendocrine carcinoma (NEC) of the breast is a rare disease and has been scarcely reported by African authors. The authors report a case of breast NEC in a 13-year-old African girl initially diagnosed as an atypical adenofibroma by ultrasonography. Ultrasound-guided biopsy and conventional histological examination indicated two potential diagnoses: primary malignant non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and undifferentiated carcinoma.

Evaluation of the Histo-Epidemiological Profile of Solid Childhood Cancers in Togo.

Background: Cancer is a subject of continuing concern, more common in adults than in children, but often with a poor outcome in the latter. Our study set itself the objective to describe the epidemiological and histological aspects of solid cancers in children in Togo.

Materials And Methods: This descriptive, cross-sectional study focused on cases of solid cancers in children diagnosed from 2010 to 2014 (5 years) at the pathology laboratory of the Tokoin teaching hospital.

Umbilicoplasty in children with huge umbilical hernia.

Background: Huge umbilical hernias (HUH) are voluminous umbilical hernia (UH) that are frequent in black African children. Several surgical techniques are used in their treatment for umbilical reconstruction, but techniques using skin flaps provide better aesthetic results. In this study, we presented our technique of umbilicoplasty in HUH, and its results.

Laparoscopic treatment of the peritoneo-vaginal duct persistences in children at Sylvanus Olympio Teaching Hospital of Lomé (Togo).

Background: The treatment of the persistent peritoneo-vaginal duct (PPVD) or persistent processus vaginalis (PPV) in children by inguinal access carries a real testicular risk that can be avoided using the laparoscopic treatment, mostly in the case of recurrence. We hereby present the results of our first series treated by laparoscopy at Sylvanus Olympio Teaching Hospital.

Patients And Methods: This is a descriptive and prospective study on a 6 months period.

Elastic stable intramedullary nailing of femoral shaft fractures in children: particularities and results at Sylvanus Olympio Teaching Hospital of Lomé, Togo.

Introduction: The elastic stable intramedullary nailing (ESIN) presently seems the best technique in the surgical treatment of femoral shaft fractures (FSF) in >6-year-old children. We hereby report technical difficulties and therapeutic results after our first 8 years of experience.

Patients And Methods: It's a retrospective study over a period of 8 years from January 2005 to December 2012 in the Paediatric Surgery Department of Sylvanus Olympio Teaching Hospital of Lomé.

Meckel's diverticulum strangulated in an umbilical hernia.

Background: Strangulated Meckel's diverticulum (MD) in an umbilical hernia (UH) is a rare event. We present herein a case of strangulated MD in UH in a child.

Case Report: An 18-month girl was admitted with clinical features suggesting upper intestinal strangulation since seven days.