[Hepatic alveolar echinococcosis: a rare cause of recurrent, surgically curable abdominal pain in children].

Hepatic alveolar echinococcosis is a rare parasitic zoonosis, potentially lethal in childhood. It is due to Echinococcosis multilocularis whose larva insidiously develops in the liver. We report the case of a 13-year-old girl, living in the Vosges Mountains, followed for recurrent abdominal pain, with recent worsening.

[Secondary right-sided diaphragmatic hernia following neonatal group B Streptococcal septicaemia in a preterm infant].

We report on a case of a secondary right-sided diaphragmatic hernia following group B streptococcal (GBS) septicaemia in a very low birth weight infant born at 30 weeks. After initial improvement, the diagnosis of a secondary right-sided diaphragmatic hernia was suspected with the persistent radiological pulmonary right-sided image on the chest x-ray and the clinical degradation. The diagnosis was confirmed by ultrasonography on day 43.

Segmental omental infarction in childhood: an unusual case of left-sided location with extension into the pelvis.

Segmental omental infarction (OI) is a rare cause of abdominal pain in children. It generally occurs in the right lower and upper quadrants of the abdomen and only a few cases of other locations have been described in adults. We report a unique paediatric case of OI with an unusual left-sided location extending into the pelvis in a 6-year-old non-obese girl.

[Nephrogenic adenoma of the bladder in children younger than 10 years: report of 5 cases].

Introduction: Nephrogenic adenoma (NA) of the bladder is a rare transitional cell tumour of the bladder in children under the age of 10 years. The objective of this study was to report our experience and review the data of the literature in order to define a coherent therapeutic approach.

Patients And Methods: We report 5 cases of NA diagnosed between 1995 and 2003 in 3 boys and 2 girls with a mean age of 6.