Thoracic skeletal anomalies following surgical treatment of esophageal atresia. Lessons from a national cohort.

Introduction: Thoracotomy as surgical approach for esophageal atresia treatment entails the risk of deformation of the rib cage and consequently secondary thoracogenic scoliosis. The aim of our study was to assess these thoracic wall anomalies on a large national cohort and search for factors influencing this morbidity.

Materials And Methods: Pediatric surgery departments from our national network were asked to send recent thoracic X-ray and operative reports for patients born between 2008 and 2010 with esophageal atresia.

Botulinum toxin injections in the management of non-neurogenic overactive bladders in children.

Introduction: Non-neurogenic detrusor overactivity in children leads to varying degrees of functional impairments (urinary urgency, pollakiuria, urge incontinence, nocturia). Botulinum toxin has shown its effectiveness in the management of detrusor overactivity in neurological patients.

Objectives: To evaluate the relevance of intravesical Botulinum toxin injections for the treatment of non-neurogenic overactive bladders in children.

Laparoscopic gastropexy for the treatment of gastric volvulus associated with wandering spleen.

A 2.5-year-old boy was referred to the emergency room for a sudden onset of diffuse and increasing abdominal pain with lethargy, abdominal distension, and vomiting, all in the past 24 hours. A plain abdominal X-ray showed gastric distension.

Deletion 2q36.2q36.3 with multiple renal cysts and severe mental retardation.

Interstitial 2q36 deletion is a rare event. We report on a patient with a de novo del(2)(q36.2q36.

Management of brachial artery aneurisms in infants.

Brachial artery aneurisms in children under 1 year of age are very rare. The main risk is distal ischaemic complication. We report four infants suffering from brachial artery aneurism of unknown origin.

Thoracoscopy and solid tumors in children: a multicenter study.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of thoracoscopy in the treatment of solid thoracic tumors in children.

Methods: A retrospective, multicenter review of 139 thoracoscopies was performed. The procedures were either resection of pulmonary lesions or biopsy.