Pregnancy, parturition, parity and position in the family. Any influence on the development of paediatric inguinal hernia/hydrocele?

Aim: To see if pre-partum factors have a relationship to the development of inguinal hernia in children.

Method: A prospective study on children with hernia. On first contact, the affected child was examined and data like the age, sex, weight, blood group, the diagnosis, side of the lesion and other co-morbid conditions was recorded.

Pediatric trauma in sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges in overcoming the scourge.

All over the world, pediatric trauma has emerged as an important public health problem. It accounts for the highest mortality in children and young adults in developed countries. Reports from Africa on trauma in the pediatric age group are few and most have been single center experience.

Pattern and outcome of childhood intestinal obstruction at a tertiary hospital in Nigeria.

Background: Intestinal obstruction is a common cause of pediatric surgical emergency with a high morbidity and mortality in Africa.

Methods: A retrospective review of cases managed from January 1996 to December 2005 at a teaching hospital in Southwestern, Nigeria was done to examine the pattern of causes of intestinal obstruction in children and the management outcome.

Results: One hundred and thirty cases were seen over the study period with an age range of 2 hours to 14 years.

Adult sacrococcygeal teratoma: a case report.

Sacrococcygeal teratomas are extremely rare in adults. We present an adult female with a sacrococcygeal teratoma managed in our hospital.

Intestinal stenosis caused by perinatal intussusception in a full-term neonate.

Perinatal intussusception is rare, but can be seen in both premature and full-term neonates. The symptoms and signs are similar to those seen in necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), causing the diagnosis of intussusception to be delayed. We report a case of intussusception that presented with features suggestive of NEC in a 3.