[Mesenteric flow in an experimental model of ischaemia-reperfusion in rats].

Introduction: Maintained acute occlusion followed by reperfusion of the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) in a few hours can trigger irreversible bowel damage. The aim of the study was to determine the changes in mesenteric flow measured by colour Doppler Ultrasound and correlating with histological lesions in an experimental model of ischaemia-reperfusion.

Method And Material: Three groups of Sprague-Dawley 17 day-old rats were studied (control, ischemia and reperfusion).

[Thyroid carcinoma in pediatrics: a 30-year follow-up].

Introduction: The thyroid tumours are infrequent neoplasms of presentation in paediatric. The object of this study was to value therapeutic evolution and the survival throughout 30 years.

Materials: 28 cases with diagnosis of thyroid carcinoma.

[Renal dynamics: comparison between diuretic renogram and magnetic resonance imaging].

Objective: This study aimed to establish a comparison between the data obtained in the renal functional study through magnetic resonance using gadolinium with diuretic (furosemide) charge (MR-Gd/F), on the one hand, and the parameters obtained with the classical diuretic renogram (DR) (differential renal function -DRF- and renographic curve -RC-), on the other hand.

Material And Method: 10 patients were studied, 6 male and 4 female, aged between 1 month and 6 year-old. All the patients were submitted to a MR-Gd/F and a DR.

Transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder in children and adolescents: six-case series and review of the literature.

Objective: Lower urinary tract tumours are uncommon in paediatrics. Transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder (TCCB) is rarely found in the first two decades of life and is exceptional under 10 years of age. The present series aimed to expand the number of reported cases in the literature.

Heminephroureterectomy for duplex kidney: laparoscopy versus open surgery.

Objective: To report our experience of laparoscopic heminephroureterectomy (Hnu) in pediatric patients with duplex anomalies, in comparison to open surgery.

Patients And Methods: Retrospective review of data from patients who underwent Hnu from 2005 to 2008 was performed. The patients were divided into two groups: laparoscopic (LHnu) and open surgery (OHnu).

Identification of loss-of-function mutations of SLC35D1 in patients with Schneckenbecken dysplasia, but not with other severe spondylodysplastic dysplasias group diseases.

Background: Schneckenbecken dysplasia (SBD) is an autosomal recessive lethal skeletal dysplasia that is classified into the severe spondylodysplastic dysplasias (SSDD) group in the international nosology for skeletal dysplasias. The radiological hallmark of SBD is the snail-like configuration of the hypoplastic iliac bone. SLC35D1 (solute carrier-35D1) is a nucleotide-sugar transporter involved in proteoglycan synthesis.

Bladder augmentation and artificial sphincter implantation: urodynamic behavior and effects on continence.

Objective: To quantify changes in bladder capacity, pressure and compliance after isolated bladder augmentation or augmentation associated with implantation of an artificial sphincter, and to compare the various types of augmentation.

Patients And Methods: Preoperative and postoperative urodynamic studies were performed in a group of 38 patients (18 males and 20 females; age range 2-19 years), who underwent a type of bladder augmentation.

Results: The bladder improved in capacity in all patients (mean values: initial 137 ml, final 336 ml, individual increase 229 ml; 434%) except two, in which the augmentation was done with ureter.

Median raphe cysts of the perineum in children.

Median raphe cysts of the perineum are uncommon congenital lesions of the male genitalia. They can be found all the way from the distal penis and scrotum toward the perineum in a midline position. They are considered as congenital alterations in embryologic development.

[Comparison between MRI and the techniques traditionally used in the study of uropathies in children].

Background: To correlate the anatomical and functional information obtained using MRI in comparison to the techniques traditionally used in the study of uropathies, and to compare their physical and socioeconomic impacts.

Methods: For a period of eleven months we carried out a prospective study of 22 patients of both sexes ranging in age from 1 to 180 months. All suffered from one or another uropathy.

[Salivary calculi in children].

Unlabelled: The main salivary glands are the submaxillary, sublingual and parotid glands. Infectious and tumoral conditions are prominent in the parotid gland whilst calculi are in submaxillary and sublingual glands. METHODS.

[Palatal necrosis in children. Case report].

Palate necrosis as a consequence of palate infection it's an exceptional condition about there's not too much references at literature. We present a case of a 6 months old child who present a palatal necrosis after a supurative medial otitis that involved hard and soft palate, with positive culture for Pseudomona aeruginosa causing a almost complete absence of the palate that simulate a bilateral palatal cleft.