Five-years' experience with outpatient thyroglossal duct cyst surgery.

Objectives: Many pediatric surgeons feel uncomfortable doing Sistrunk procedure without drain placement and in an outpatient setting. This study aimed to review our pediatric surgery department's experience in managing thyroglossal duct cyst surgery and to prove feasibility and safety of Sistrunk procedure without drain placement in an outpatient setting.

Methods: A retrospective review was performed of all patients who underwent Sistrunk procedure, between January 2011 and December 2015, in our department.

Upper pole nephrectomy: a simplified technique using a retroperitoneal laparoscopic approach.

Objective. To describe a simplified technique already used in our institution for several years in the open heminephrectomy for duplication anomalies, now performed through a retroperitoneal laparoscopic approach. Methods.