Conservative treatment versus surgery for uncomplicated appendicitis in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Objectives: To compare conservative treatment with index admission appendicectomy in children with acute uncomplicated appendicitis.

Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

Data Sources: Medline, Embase and the Cochrane Library (CENTRAL) from 1950 to 18 February 2017.

Thoracoscopic segmentectomy: one vessel may hide a second one.

We report the case of an asymptomatic neonate prenatally diagnosed with a left basal pulmonary sequestration. The preoperative chest computed tomography with contrast showed 2 aberrant arteries arising from the distal thoracic aorta and supplying the intralobar left inferior lung malformation. Strategy and treatment by thoracoscopic segmentectomy are presented.

Bilateral hydrosalpinx in adolescent girls with Hirschsprung's disease: association of two rare conditions.

Objective: The purpose of our study was to illustrate three cases of bilateral hydrosalpinx in postpubertal girls operated on for Hirschsprung's disease and to discuss the possible cause: iatrogenic or congenital. We identified bilateral hydrosalpinx in three postpubertal sexually inactive girls with Hirschsprung's disease treated, respectively by Duhamel, Soave pull-through, and Martin procedures. No history of surgical complications or pelvic inflammation had been reported.