Use of Fibrin Glue in the Treatment of Persistent Pneumothorax in Premature Infants at the Limit of Viability: Ethical Issues and Two and A Half Years Follow-Up.

Introduction: Due to the extreme immaturity of many internal organs, including lungs, infants at the limit of viability are more predisposed to a pneumothorax (PTX). In some cases, PTX becomes persistent. Previously, only a few attempts of PTX treatment with fibrin glue were reported.

European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (EFSUMB): An Update on the Pediatric CEUS Registry on Behalf of the "EFSUMB Pediatric CEUS Registry Working Group".

The European Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (EFSUMB) created the "EFSUMB Pediatric Registry" (EFSUMB EPR) with the purpose of collecting data regarding the intravenous application of pediatric contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS). The primary aim was to document the current clinical practice and usefulness of the technique and secondarily to assess CEUS safety in children. We issue the preliminary results of this database and examine the overall practice of CEUS in children in Europe.

Pneumococcal Meningitis and Its Sequelae - A Devastating CNS Disease.

Introduction: In countries where Haemophilus influenzae type B vaccine is used, Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common cause of bacterial meningitis in young children and notable cause of morbidity/mortality. The authors present material of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of patients with pneumococcal meningitis from archive of Department of Diagnostic Imaging of Institute of Mother and Child in Warsaw.

Materials And Methods: We performed 27 brain MRI scans and 1 follow-up computed tomography (CT) in 10 children (2 girls and 8 boys) aged from neonate to 5 years at disease onset with proven pneumococcal infection.

Neonatal brain and body imaging in the MR-compatible incubator.

Background: The use of a specialized MR-compatible incubator (INC) is very poorly described in the literature and only with regard to brain imaging.

Objectives: To present our own experience with brain and body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the INC in a large cohort of neonates.

Material And Methods: A total of 555 examinations were performed in 530 newborns with the use of a 1.

Seventeen years of prenatal magnetic resonance imaging at the Institute of Mother and Child in Warsaw.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to summarise and to present the experience of the main Polish centre for prenatal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and to discuss the place and role of MRI in antenatal diagnosis, management, and counselling.

Material And Methods: Retrospective analysis of the examinations performed in the years 2001-2017.

Results: In total, 1221 medical records and/or image files were collected.

Imaging of Complications After Limb Prostheses Implantation in Children with Bone Tumors.

Background: Tumors of the developmental age are an important problem in clinical practice. Primary bone tumors constitute 1-1.5% of all tumors, and 7% of all tumors diagnosed in the developmental age.

CNS Metastases from Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults: Are They Really So Rare?

. To check whether primary involvement of brain/spinal cord by bone/soft tissue sarcomas' metastases in children is as rare as described and to present various morphological forms of bone/soft tissue sarcomas' CNS metastases. .

Diffusion restriction in the corticospinal tracts and the corpus callosum in neonates after cerebral insult.

Background: In neonatal brains diffusion restriction, which is not limited to the region of insult, but is also found in distant locations from it seems to be a frequent finding, called pre-Wallerian degeneration.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to describe these findings and to estimate the frequency of their occurrence with an attempt to determine their clinical significance.

Methods: 125 brain MRI examinations of neonates with confirmed brain damage performed or consulted in our Institute were retrospectively reviewed, focusing on the presence of restricted diffusion in corticospinal tracts (CST) and corpus callosum (CC).

Circle of Willis abnormalities in children with neurofibromatosis type 1.

Background And Purpose: The aim of the study was to assess anatomical variants and abnormalities in cerebral arteries on magnetic resonance angiography in 67 children with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1).

Materials And Methods: The study included 67 children aged 9 months to 18 years (mean 6.6 years).

Cephalic index in the evaluation of surgical treatment of children with sagittal synostosis. Preliminary report.

Aim Of The Study: To analyze changes of the cephalic index (CI) values in patients with sagittal synostosis operated on in the Department of Surgery of Children and Adolescents of the Institute of Mother and Child in Warsaw.

Material And Methods: The study group consisted of 14 consecutive cases (11 boys and 3 girls). In 8 patients younger than 3 months of age (1st subgroup) the modified reversed-pi technique (craniotomy in the shape of the reversed Greek π letter) was utilized.

Neurocutaneous melanosis in children with giant congenital melanocytic nevi.

Twenty-four children with giant congenital melanocytic nevi underwent brain MRI at 1.5 T scanner. Melanin deposits in the brain were found in seven children (29.

Miliary brain metastases from papillary adenocarcinoma of the lung - unusual MRI pattern with histopathologic correlation.

Miliary brain metastases are very rarely described in the literature but if they are, they are quite obvious on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and enhance after intravenous administration of the contrast medium. The authors presented a case of miliary metastatic spread to the brain which was invisible on computed tomography and hardly visible on MRI, i.e.

MRI patterns of hypoxic-ischemic brain injury in preterm and full term infants - classical and less common MR findings.

Hypoxic-ischemic brain injury occurring in antenatal, perinatal or early postnatal period constitutes an important diagnostic problem in both term and prematurely born neonates. Over the past several years magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become relatively easily accessible in Poland. On the basis of the central nervous system MRI, the experienced radiologist are able to determine the location of the hypoxic-ischemic lesions, their extent and evolution.

The value of magnetic resonance imaging in the early diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease - own experience.

Background: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare progressive neurodegenerative disorder, caused by the deposition of the pathological isoform of prion protein PrPsc in the central nervous system. The classic triad of symptoms consists of: rapidly progressive dementia, myoclonus and typical electroencephalographic findings (intermittent rhythmic delta activity and periodic sharp wave complexes). Detection of 14-3-3 protein in the cerebrospinal fluid plays an important diagnostic role as well.

[Sonography of small bowel, colon and appendix in children with cystic fibrosis].

Aim: To assess the utility of sonographic examination in estimation of the incidence and character of pathological changes in different parts of the intestine and other abdominal organs in children with cystic fibrosis (CF).

Material And Method: The study group consisted of 182 children (94 girls, 88 boys), aged from 2 months up to 22 yrs, with diagnosed cystic fibrosis or its suspicion, confirmed later. The control group consisted of 20 children with mean age 8 yrs.

Postradiotherapeutic changes and their evolution in MRI in children with aggressive soft tissue tumors.

Background: Magnetic resonance imaging is a commonly used method of monitoring of soft tissue tumours. The aim of the work was to describe precisely the typical changes within soft tissues and bones occurring after radiotherapy in children treated for sarcomas and other soft tissue tumours. With time, the changes undergo evolution and their characteristics and comparison with previous examinations help in a difficult differentiation between tumour lesions and posttherapeutic changes.

[Vesicoureteral reflux in children with prenatal suspicion of urinary tract abnormalities].

Aim: The aim of the study was to assess indications to voiding cystourethrography (VCUG) in children with suspicion of urinary tract (UT) abnormalities in prenatal ultrasonography (US).

Material And Methods: We studied 93 children aged 1 day to 7 months (mean 1.4 +/- 1.