Prenatal Features of Bladder Agenesis in a Female Fetus with Genital Transposition.

Bladder agenesis is a rare condition, mostly affecting females, where diagnosis is usually made in infancy when investigating urinary incontinence. Neonatal cases are uncommon, and none have been reported antenatally. The few male patients with this condition rarely survive: among associated anomalies, different degrees of penoscrotal transposition are the most evident feature.

Enterobius Vermicularis as a Cause of Intestinal Occlusion: How To Avoid Unnecessary Surgery.

Enterobius vermicularis may cause infections of the gastrointestinal tract and occurs approximately in 4% to 28% of children worldwide. It is most common in children aged 5 to 14 years.The most commonly reported symptoms are pruritus in the perianal region, abdominal pain, urinary tract infection, insomnia, irritability, salpingitis, and appendicitis, whereas intestinal obstruction is a very rare but would be considered to perform the right instrumental examination avoiding unnecessary surgical exploration.

Incarcerated Amyand's hernia Personal experience and literature review.

Unlabelled: The finding of vermiform appendix in an inguinal hernia is called Amyand's hernia. Two cases of a 30 days and 4 months old children respectively are presented; they had been visited a month earlier and scheduled for inguinal herniotomy in elective surgery. On admission both the patients presented a non-reducible mass in the right inguinal region.

Role of surgery in pediatric ulcerative colitis.

Pediatric ulcerative colitis (UC) has a more extensive and progressive clinical course than adult UC. Therefore, more aggressive initial therapies and more frequent surgical treatments are needed. The therapeutic goal is to gain clinical and laboratory control of the disease with minimal adverse effects while permitting the patient to function as normally as possible.

Analysis of readability and quality of web pages addressing both common and uncommon topics in pediatric surgery.

Introduction: The quality medical information on Internet is highly variable. The aim of this study is to determine if Web pages addressing four common pediatric surgical topics (CT) and four uncommon pediatric surgical topics (UT) differ significantly in terms of quality and/or characteristics.

Materials And Methods: We performed an Internet search regarding four CT, addressing more frequent clinical conditions with an incidence≤1:1.