[Treatment of epiphyseal fractures of the distal radial in children].

Objective: To assess the results of treatment on epiphyseal fractures of the distal radius.

Material And Methods: A retrospective study of 53 patients treated in the pediatric surgery department on children was conducted between 2002 and 2012 for a distal radius epiphyseal fracture. The mean age of 12.

Epidemiology of congenital abnormalities in West Africa: Results of a descriptive study in teaching hospitals in Abidjan: Cote d'Ivoire.

Background: Congenital abnormalities constitute one of the major causes of infant mortality, particularly in developing countries. The aim of this study was to describe the epidemiology of congenital anomalies in Cote d'Ivoire.

Materials And Methods: It was a multicentric study of three academic hospitals and the Heart Institute of Abidjan over 10 years.

Complex bladder-exstrophy-epispadias management: causes of failure of initial bladder closure.

The success of the initial closure of the complex bladder-exstrophy remains a challenge in pediatric surgery. This study describes a personal experience of the causes of failure of the initial closure and operative morbidity during the surgical treatment of bladder-exstrophy complex. From April 2000 to March 2014, four patients aged 16 days to 7 years and 5 months underwent complex exstrophy-epispadias repair with pelvic osteotomies.

[Native psoas abcess in children. Case study at paediatric surgery department of university teaching hospital of Yopougon, Félix Houphouet Boigny university Côte d'Ivoire (Abidjan)].

The authors report on a psoas abscess case whose diagnostic has been facilitated by the use of abdominal echography. The result has been successful due to the combination of antibiotherapy and echo-guided puncture.