[Rectal localization of Burkitt's lymphoma].

Background: Rectal tumors are rare in childhood and among them malignant tumors are even less common. Only eight cases of primary rectal lymphomas were reported in children, with various presenting signs and histology. Burkitt's lymphomas are among these cases.

A new technique of bladder enlargement and continent urinary diversion using the ceco-appendicular unit.

The authors developed a new technique using the cecum with in-situ appendix to simultaneously achieve bladder enlargement and continent urinary diversion (CUD) in five cases of neuropathic bladder or serious complications of abdominopelvic trauma. The cecoplasty provides a large-capacity, low-pressure reservoir; the submucosally-embedded appendix gives complete continence with 3 to 5 intermittent catheterizations daily. It is an alternative to the Mitrofanoff principle when bladder augmentation and CUD are necessary, and easier to achieve when faced with a neuropathic bladder where the thickness of the detrusor makes appendicular implantation difficult.

[Modified Dyplay technique in the treatment of anterior hypospadias. Immediate and long term results in 321 cases and review of the literature].

Objectives: Description of a surgical technique in the treatment of anterior hypospadias, a frequent malformation for which the treatment is not devoid of complications. Evaluation of the short-term as well as the long-term results.

Material And Methods: Retrospective study of 321 patients treated according to this method.

[Continent urinary diversion using a tubulized sigmoid segment. An alternative to trans-appendicular diversion].

Objective: The authors propose the use of a sigmoid tube reimplanted submucosally in the bladder and brought out onto the skin in the midline or in the umbilicus as a method of continent urinary diversion allowing urinary catheterization several times a day when the appendix cannot be used.

Materials And Methods: Three adolescents with neurogenic bladder were treated according to this procedure; the summit of the sigmoid colon loop was selected to form a continent tube from a segment 4 cm wide, opened along its antimesenteric border and sutured longitudinally.

Results: The postoperative course was uneventful in all 3 cases.

Inflammatory pseudotumor of the retroperitoneum in a child.

Inflammatory pseudotumor is a rare, benign lesion of various organs and tissues that occurs in children and young adults. A case is reported in a 12-year-old boy in a retroperitoneal location with involvement of the left ureter and a thrombosis of left iliac vein. He underwent surgical resection.