Teaching humanitarian surgery: Filling the gap between NGO needs and subspecialized surgery through a novel inter-university certificate.

Access to surgical care is a global health burden. A broad spectrum of surgical competences is required in the humanitarian context whereas current occidental surgical training is oriented towards subspecialties. We proposed to design a course addressing the specificities of surgery in the humanitarian setting and austere environment.

Intra-abdominal cystic lymphangioma in a newborn infant. Case report and review of the literature.

We report a newborn infant presenting with an intra-abdominal cystic lymphangioma, in which necrosis and infection led to an unusual combination of solid and liquid areas observed by ultrasonography.

Prenatal diagnosis of a pulmonary cyst by ultrasonography.

We report a patient in whom a prenatal diagnosis of an intrapulmonary cyst was made by ultrasonography. To our knowledge, no such case has been reported before and prenatal diagnosis permitted prompt management of an asymptomatic neonate.