[Abdominal injuries in children. The value of emergency abdominal ultrasonography].

Unlabelled: Abdominal injuries are frequent in children. Their early assessment is the best guarantee for an accurate management.

Patients And Methods: Seventy children with abdominal trauma were evaluated by early ultrasonography.

Segmental bronchial atresia--a case report and a literature review.

Bronchial atresia is a short and juxtahilar bronchus interruption. This uncommon malformation leads to an obstructive and systematized emphysema, often associated with mucoid impaction. The authors report the case of a 5-year-old boy and review the literature in order to recall the radiologic features of this affection, which are characterized by an obstructive segmental or lobar emphysema often located in the upper lobe.

[Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy associated with malignant thymoma in a child].

We report a case of pulmonary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy in a child with malignancy thymoma. This entity is infrequent in pediatric patients.

[The diagnosis of mediastinal lymphangioma in children].

On the basis of personal observation of four cases, the authors discuss the diagnostic aspects in this disease. Before birth, the diagnosis should be made by echography. After birth, magnetic resonance imaging scanning (IRM) is the method showing two types of cystic lymphangioma; a monomorphic and a polymorphic type.

[Unusual mediastinal cystic lymphangioma. Apropos of a case and review of the literature].

Cystic lymphangioma is an uncommon congenital neoplasm which frequently occurs in young adults. Less than 1% are localized in the mediastinum. The authors report the case of an unusual voluminous mediastinal cystic lymphangioma, with a fatal outcome in a twelve year old boy.