[Treatment of blunt splenic trauma in children].

Unlabelled: The conservative management of blunt splenic trauma in children has been generally accepted for about twenty years, in order to avoid serious post-splenectomy infectious complications. The objective of this study was to evaluate the results of conservative management.

Patients And Methods: 21 cases of blunt splenic trauma were treated between 1 January 1991 and 31 December 1995.

[Multifocal hydatid cysts in children].

From 1981 to 1983, 112 children have been operated on for hydatidosis, 26 of them presented multifocal hydatid cysts. In half cases the lung was affected, in association with an abdominal affect. In 6 cases it was a bilateral pulmonary localisation.