Giant congenital solitary nonparasitic cyst of the liver causing respiratory distress in a neonate.

A 3-day-old male neonate delivered at 34 weeks of gestational age was brought with breathing difficulty since birth. The abdomen was massively distended. A soft cystic mass was occupying almost the entire abdomen and causing obvious respiratory distress.

Neonatal ilio-psoas abscess: report of two cases.

Ilio-psoas abscess (IPA) is rare in children and exceptional in the neonate. However, we recently managed two consecutive male neonates with right-sided IPA. The first baby was born two days after rupture of the membranes and had thick meconium-stained amniotic fluid.

Near total jejuno-ileal atresia: a management challenge.

A 2-day-old female neonate with the clinical picture of proximal small bowel atresia, on exploration, turned out to have intestinal atresia of a rare variety, i.e., a near-total jejuno-ileal atresia.

Management of child victims of acute sexual assault: Surgical repair and beyond.

Aim: To evaluate the outcome of definitive repair of anogenital injuries (AGI) in child victims of acute sexual assault.

Settings And Design: It is a prospective study of emergency care provided to child victims of acute sexual assault at a tertiary care Pediatric Surgical Unit in Maharashtra, India.

Material And Methods: Out of 25 children, who presented during January 2009-December 2010 with suspected sexual assault, five children (one male and four female, between 4-9 years of age), had incurred major AGI.

Anorectal malformations: Definitive management during and beyond adolescence.

Aim: To evaluate our results of definitive repair of anorectal malformations in patients with delayed presentation, during and beyond adolescence.

Material And Methods: It is a retrospective analysis of all adolescent patients presenting for the first time for definitive repairs and innate patients - colostomy performed during the neonatal period, but who had lost to follow-up. It includes 15 patients (2 male and 13 female) aged from 13 to 32 years.

Bowel conservation in a case of giant jejuno-ileal duplication.

The management of very long tubular bowel duplications poses a special challenge to even the most skilled surgeon. In these cases, mucosal stripping is usually employed. We report a novel case of a two-year-old boy, with 120 cm long jejuno-ileal duplication, wherein, bowel salvage was achieved, utilizing the Bianchi principle, originally described for bowel lengthening in cases of short bowel syndrome.