The diagnostic value of MRI fistulogram and MRI distal colostogram in patients with anorectal malformations.

Contrast fistulogram (FG) and distal pressure colostogram (DPCG) are standard diagnostic methods for the assessment of anorectal malformations. Pelvic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) earned a place among essential diagnostic methods in preoperative investigations after the Currarino syndrome and a high incidence of associated spinal dysraphism were described. The aim of our study was to evaluate the possibility of substituting FG and DPCG by a modified pelvic MRI, e.

[Stab wounds in children].

Injuries are the most serious health risk in children. Injuries are the main cause of death and long term disabilities in children. Fortunately, stab wounds in children are very rare in our country, but they are, in most cases, very serious injuries.

Delayed diagnosis of a right-sided traumatic diaphragmatic rupture.

Right-sided traumatic diaphragmatic rupture in childhood is a very rare injury. Diaphragmatic rupture often manifests itself later, after an organ progressively herniates into the pleural cavity. When the patient is tubed, the ventilation pressure does not allow herniation of an organ, which occurs when the patient is ex-tubed.

Hirschsprung's disease and medullary thyroid carcinoma: 15-year experience with molecular genetic screening of the RET proto-oncogene.

Purpose: Inactivating germline mutations in the RET proto-oncogene are the major genetic cause of Hirschsprung's disease (HD). In some cases, HD can be associated with medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) that is commonly caused by activating RET mutations.

Methods: The retrospective and prospective genetic analyses of 157 patients with HD operated on between December 1979 and June 2011 were carried out.

Congenital gastric outlet obstruction by pyloric membrane: prenatal and postnatal diagnosis and management.

Congenital gastric outlet obstruction is a rare condition representing only 1% of all gastrointestinal atresias. Prenatal diagnosis is uncommon and mostly confined to the third trimester of cases presenting a combination of polyhydramnios with dilated stomach. We report a case of congenital gastric outlet obstruction by pyloric membrane which was diagnosed prenatally in the third trimester by sonography and magnetic resonance imaging.