Impact of virtual imaging procedures on treatment strategies in children with hepatic vascular malformations.

Objectives: Virtual imaging procedures have only rarely been analyzed in pediatric populations. We evaluated the role of CT-based virtual surgery planning in pediatric patients experiencing hepatic vascular malformations (HVM).

Methods: We analyzed 12 children with complex hepatic vascular malformations.

Pyeloplasty in children: is there a difference in patients with or without crossing lower pole vessel?

Introduction: Most of the children with hydronephrosis do not require any surgical intervention. However, in individual cases, irreversible loss of renal function can develop. Predictive criteria have been proven ineffective so far in determining in which children obstruction will lead to renal damage.

Transperineal sonography for determination of the type of imperforate anus.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess whether transperineal sonography is valid and accurate for discriminating the low (translevator) type of imperforate anus from the intermediate and high (supralevator) types. The distinction is critical in determination of the surgical approach.

Materials And Methods: Fifty-six consecutively enrolled infants (0-90 days old) with imperforate anus underwent transperineal gray-scale sonography with a 12-MHz linear array transducer.

Cystic fibrosis in children and young adults: findings on routine abdominal sonography.

Objective: The gastrointestinal manifestations of cystic fibrosis predispose patients to morbid conditions involving the pancreas, liver, biliary tract, spleen, and intestine. This article reviews the sonographic appearance of these abdominal manifestations.

Conclusion: Numerous gastrointestinal complications have sonographic manifestations that must be interpreted correctly to ensure appropriate therapy.

Laparoscopic cystojejunostomy as a treatment option for pancreatic pseudocysts in children--a case report.

Pancreatic pseudocysts are a rare entity in children for which many approaches have been described. We report on the case of a 5-year-old boy with a pancreatic pseudocyst after blunt abdominal trauma. The patient's clinical and laboratory examination findings had also revealed an acute pancreatitis.

Sonography of brachial plexus traction injuries.

Objective: Our purpose was to evaluate the feasibility of sonography in identifying nerve abnormalities in patients with traction injury of the brachial plexus.

Conclusion: Sonography of the brachial plexus was technically feasible, although the entire brachial plexus could not be evaluated. Sonography appears to be a useful bedside imaging technique for assessing brachial plexus injury.

Ultrasonographic findings correspond to clinical, endoscopic, and histologic findings in inflammatory bowel disease and other enterocolitides.

Objective: To compare results obtained by abdominal ultrasonography with clinical findings, including endoscopic and histologic findings, to evaluate the location and activity of inflammatory bowel disease, including disease controls in children.

Methods: Ninety-two ultrasonographic scans and 41 colonoscopic examinations with biopsies were performed in 78 patients (1 month to 17.8 years of age) with Crohn's disease (n = 26), ulcerative colitis (n = 21), inflammatory bowel disease of indeterminate type (n = 2), and disease controls (other intestinal disorders, including infectious and ischemic lesions; n = 29).