Idiopathic scrotal hematoma in a neonate.

Neonatal scrotal hematoma is considered a surgical emergency in the neonatal period. Up to recently, immediate surgical exploration was considered the gold standard for the diagnosis and treatment in the underlying causes. In this article, we present a case of idiopathic scrotal hematoma in a neonate.

Development of an animal model of fibrous cholangitis in pigs.

Introduction: The aim of this study was to develop a model of fibrous cholangitis in the offspring of gravid domestic pigs through the administration of 1,4-phenylene diisothiocyanate (DITC).

Material And Methods: Six young domestic pigs and two gravid pigs with their offspring (21 pigs) were used as experimental models and six wild-type animals were used as controls. All pigs were divided into five main groups and five subgroups, according to their developmental stage and time of exposure to DITC.

Necrotizing fasciitis in childhood. Case report, and review of the literature.

Introduction: Necrotizing fasciitis (NF) is an aggressive and relatively rare soft tissue infection, involving the fascia and the subcutaneous tissue, with a rapidly fatal evolution.

Case Report: GE, an 8 year-old girl presented with edema and redness of the external genitalia. Twelve hours later, she became toxic while her redness extended in the abdominal wall and both upper thighs.

[Primary peritonitis in the newborn: a recently recognised disease].

Background Data: Neonatal primary peritonitis (or autonomic bacterial peritonitis) is a diffuse peritoneal inflammation without any obvious visceral cause. It is a disease rarely described during the neonatal period.

Objective: The aim of the current study was to make the surgical community aware of it, in an attempt to help a prompt diagnose and to avoid any unnecessary surgery in patients admitted in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).

Annular pancreas in two consecutive siblings: an extremely rare case.

Annular pancreas is the rare congenital anomaly where the pancreas forms a full or incomplete ring around the second segment of the duodenum, causing various degrees of stenosis or atresia. It is estimated that it appears in 1 out of 12 000-15 000 births of living neonates and until now, in the literature, only 6 cases have been reported among individuals of the same family. We present the case of two siblings, a boy and a girl, with annular pancreas from consecutive pregnancies of the same couple.