Long-term urological complications after conservative local treatment (surgery and brachytherapy) in children with bladder-prostate rhabdomyosarcoma: A single-team experience.

Background: Outcome of children with bladder-prostate rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) has improved with multimodal therapies, including surgery and/or radiotherapy for local treatment. Our aim was to report long-term urological complications after a conservative approach combining conservative surgery and brachytherapy.

Patients And Methods: Eighty-six patients, free of disease, were retrospectively reviewed.

Two simple modifications can potentially change the future of proximal hypospadias surgery. Our series and a review of the literature.

Background/objective: To draw a hint towards two simple modifications that could potentially decrease the complication rate.

Patients And Methods: It was a single center, single operator and retrospective study. All patients with severe hypospadias operated according to koyanagi with or without modifications were presented.

A rare cause of neonatal intussusception. Considering it might reduce the mortality. A case report and a review of the literature.

Full-term neonatal intussusception is rare. Cecal duplication as a lead point for intussusception is very rare. We report a case of full-term neonate with ileo-cecal intussusception due to cecal duplication.

Pediatric appendectomy in developing countries: How does it differ from international experience?

Introduction: A review of the English literature indicates the faint superiority of laparoscopic (LA) over open appendectomy (OA) in the pediatric population; however, a developing-country's experience in the field is not available yet. This study presents our experience in LA versus OA over the last 7 years in one university hospital in Lebanon and compares our results to the international ones.

Method: A single center retrospective study was done including all patients aged less than 15 years who underwent appendectomy.