Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions on pediatric appendicitis in Turkey: A single-center experience.

Background: In this study we investigated how the incidence and course of acute appendicitis (AA) changed in children during the pandemic.

Methods: Children diagnosed with AA during the 1-year pandemic period after the first COVID-19 case in Turkey and the previous 1 year were included in the study. Children were divided into two groups: those hospitalized during the pandemic (group A) and those hospitalized in the year before the pandemic (group B).

Inguinal herniotomy with the Mitchell-Banks' technique is safe in older children.

Purpose: There is a tendency for the majority of surgeons to open the inguinal canal in children over two years old when performing inguinal hernia repair. On the other hand, in small children, most surgeons perform the herniotomy superficially to the external ring, as in Mitchell-Banks' technique (MBT). Our aim was to compare the Ferguson hernioplasty (FH) and Mitchell-Banks' technique in terms of recurrence and complication rates in older children.

A rare cause of childhood ileus: giant mesenteric lipoma and a review of the literature.

Mesenteric lipomas are benign tumors of mature fat cells. They are usually asymptomatic and create a clinical picture that depends on the localization and size of the lipoma. Although rare, unusually large mesenteric giant lipomas can cause partial or complete bowel obstruction.

An unusual clinical state: true ulnar artery aneurysm in a five-year old girl.

We report the case of a 5-year old girl, who presented with a true ulnar artery aneurysm, and the aetiology, clinical presentation and treatment of the disease.

Abdominal wall mucocele: a late complication of colostomy closure.

We present a case of incisional enteric mucocele formation 10 years following colostomy closure. The patient was admitted to the hospital with the symptoms of an abdominal wall mass lying on previously closed colostomy incision. Clinical presentation, diagnostic work up and pathology of the case were discussed.

Persistent mullerian duct syndrome with transverse testicular ectopia.

A 15-month-old boy was discovered to have internal female genitalia during an operation for bilateral inguinal hernia. The biopsies showed normal testicular tissue and the karyotyping result was 46XY, so the diagnosis of persistent mullerian duct syndrome (PMDS) was made. At the second operation, the uterine fundus and fallopian tubes were excised.