Morel-Lavallee Lesion of the Hip in Children: About a Case and Literature Review.

Morel-Lavallée lesion, also called closed degloving injury, is a rare clinical entity in routine pediatric surgical practice. We present a case of an 11-year-old girl presenting with a left hip lesion, treated with compression bandage, and the clinical outcome was favorable.

Prolonged cord separation in a newborn: a rare case of an unusual epithelialised umbilical cord.

A female full-term neonate, accompanied by her parents, was referred to the paediatric surgery department on the day of after birth. She presented with a 9 cm length pathological umbilical cord, of which the first 7 cm was red and wet, with ulceration, necrosis and healing areas. The patient never had a fever.

Seat belt syndrome with caecal perforation and Chance fracture in an adolescent.

Seat belt syndrome describes a combination of injuries a person restrained by a seat belt may have after a high-velocity motor vehicle crash. A seat belt-shaped bruise may be present across the torso. A Chance fracture is a horizontal vertebral fracture, resulting from spinal hyperflexion, and in disruption of the three columns of the vertebral bodies.

The Gigli saw, a useful tool for cutting a metal ring causing penile strangulation.

Penile strangulation is a rare pediatric urology emergency. A 13-year-old boy with no psychiatric history was referred to the university hospital 2 h after a metallic ring was self-placed over his penis. Under general anesthesia, a Gigli saw cut the cockring in two places.

Evaluation of continuous wound infusion with local analgesics in postoperative renal transplantation patients: A retrospective study.

Objectives: The objective is to evaluate the efficacy of the continuous wound infusion (CWI) with Ropivacaine (naropeine 2 mg/ml) on postoperative pain, analgesics consumption, and bowel function in renal transplantation patients.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective study trial including 79 patients who underwent renal transplantation. Patients were separated into two groups (catheter or without catheter).

Atypical phenotype of a patient with Bardet-Biedl syndrome type 4.

Background: Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a multisystemic disorder characterized by rod-cone dystrophy, truncal obesity, postaxial polydactyly, cognitive impairment, male hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, complex female genitourinary malformations, and renal abnormalities. There is a large clinical and also genetic heterogeneity in BBS. Here, we report a patient with polydactyly, hyperechogenic kidneys increased in size with normal corticomedullary differentiation, anal imperforation, and malformation of genitals with presence of a genital tubercle with ventral urethral meatus associated with two unfused lateral genital swelling and absent urethral folds, in the context of 46, XY karyotype.

Esophageal Atresia and Respiratory Morbidity.

Background And Objectives: Respiratory diseases are common in children with esophageal atresia (EA), leading to increased morbidity and mortality in the first year. The primary study objective was to identify the factors associated with readmissions for respiratory causes in the first year in EA children.

Methods: A population-based study.

Testicular rupture after blunt scrotal trauma in children: A case report and literature review.

Blunt testicular trauma with rupture of albuginea is one of the rarest emergencies in children. Medical history and Testicular Doppler Ultrasound lead to diagnosis. Appropriate management is necessary to preserve the testis.

Risk Factors of Early Mortality and Morbidity in Esophageal Atresia with Distal Tracheoesophageal Fistula: A Population-Based Cohort Study.

Objective: To identify the risk factors for early mortality and morbidity in a population with distal esophageal atresia (EA)-tracheoesophageal fistula.

Study Design: Cohort study from a national register. Main outcomes and measures included early mortality, hospital length of stay (LoS), need for nutritional support at 1 year of age as a proxy measure of morbidity, and complications during the first year of life.

Robot-assisted continent urinary diversion according to the Mitrofanoff principle: results of a bicentric study.

Purpose: To assess the outcomes of continent urinary diversion according to the Mitrofanoff principle by robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery in terms of continence, catheterization and repeat surgery.

Methods: All adult patients who underwent procedures for continent urinary diversion via a robot-assisted laparoscopic route between October 2014 and November 2018 were enrolled retrospectively. Abdominal continence and clean intermittent catheterization ability were noted, as well as patient characteristics, details of the technique, intra- and perioperative parameters, and complications.

[Parental representations of children's acute appendicitis and impact on its surgical management in three departments].

Introduction: Appendicitis is well known by the general and medical population. Yet, the number of appendectomies varies by a factor of one to four depending on French departments.Purpose of research: This study aimed to compare, according to French schooling departments, the representations and attitudes of parents facing abdominal pain of their children, and their use of health care system.

Co-existing infantile hepatic hemangioma and mesenchymal hamartoma in a neonate.

Infantile hepatic hemangioma (IHH) and mesenchymal hamartoma (MH) form the first and second most common benign hepatic tumors in children. In this case report, we present a newborn child in whom a growing hepatic mass was discovered at the age of 7 days. She suffered also from anemia, respiratory and renal failure.

Results from the French National Esophageal Atresia register: one-year outcome.

Background: The aim of the present national prospective population-based study was to assess the early morbidity of esophageal atresia (EA).

Methods: All 38 multidisciplinary French centers that care for patients with EA returned a specific questionnaire about the 1-year outcome for each patient. This information was centralized, checked, and entered into a database.

Esophageal atresia: data from a national cohort.

Purpose: A prospective national register was established in 2008 to record all new cases of live-birth newborns with esophageal atresia (EA). This epidemiological survey was recommended as part of a national rare diseases plan.

Methods: All 38 national centers treating EA participated by completing for each patient at first discharge a questionnaire validated by a national committee of experts.

[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.

Colonic triplication associated with anorectal malformation: case presentation of a rare embryological disorder.

Tubular colonic triplication is an extremely rare hindgut malformation, with only 2 reports in the literature to date. The present authors describe the new and unusual case of a boy born with an imperforate anus, rectovesical fistula, and 3 distinct left colons. The bladder was divided by an incomplete septum.