Background: Laparoscopy for the resection of liver tumors in children has remained undeveloped in comparison to adults. Most of the indications for pediatric laparoscopic hepatic surgery have been limited to diagnostic laparoscopy (biopsy). Over the past ten years, however, laparoscopic liver resections for pediatric hepatic diseases have been performed successfully, and many case reports have been published.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report a case of an 8-month-old girl admitted to the Department of Paediatric Cardiac Surgery, Pomeranian Centre of Traumatology in Gdansk with migration of an Amplatzer Duct Occluder II device (AGA Med. Corp., USA) to the left pulmonary artery after interventional patent arterial duct (PDA) closure.
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