Inanimate 3D printed model for thoracoscopic repair of esophageal atresia with tracheoesophageal fistula.

Background: Thoracoscopic repair of esophageal atresia (EA) and tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF) poses significant technical challenges. This study aimed to develop an inexpensive, reusable, high-fidelity synthetic tissue model for simulating EA/TEF repairs and to assess the validity of the simulator.

Methods: By using 3D printing and silicone casting, we designed an inexpensive and reusable inanimate model for training in thoracoscopic EA/TEF repair.

[Use of allogenous material in the management of spina bifida aperta].

Aim: "Conditio sine qua non" in the management of open neural tube defects includes closure of all layers with as minimum as possible tension left within the suture region, in order to prevent early, as well as long-term postoperative complications. In extensive fascial defects, the authors used the Gore-Tex patch as an alternative to myofascial or fasciocutaneous flaps.

Patients And Methods: From January 2004 to January 2008, 23 patients suffering from open spina bifida underwent surgery in the Bratislava Pediatric Surgery Centre.

[Surgical treatment of children with necrotizing enterocolitis].

Necrotizing enterocolitis is an acute neonatal disease. It affects in particular premature neonates with a birth weight lower than 1500 g. Despite extensive research the etiology of the disease remains obscure.

[Diastematomyelia and the tethered spinal cord syndrome. Case report].

The authors present a patient with diastematomyelia and associated congenital malformations of the spinal cord. They caused tethering of the spinal cord. Patient had cutaneous marks of malformation from birth.

[Results of surgery in children with congenital megacolon].

In 1974 to 1999 at the Department of Paediatric Surgery in Bratislava 142 patients aged 3 days to 14 years were treated on account of Hirschsprung's disease. Seventy-four patients suffered from the classical type of Hirschsprung's disease affecting the recto-sigmoid segment of the large bowel, in 43 the long segment of the large bowel was affected. In nineteen patients an ultrashort segment was afflicted and six patients suffered from total aganglionosis of the large bowel.