Compared outcomes of femoral shaft fracture treatment in school-age children in Sub-Saharan Africa: Primary open reduction and intramedullary K-wire fixation versus traction followed by spica cast.

Background: Elastic stable intramedullary nailing has become the treatment of choice for femur shaft fractures in school-age children in developed world. However, in the sub-Saharan Africa, this management is still challenging because of the lack of fluoroscopy in more hospitals. We performed either primary open reduction and intramedullary K-wire fixation (PORIKF) or conservative treatment.

Management of femoral neck fractures in children: Experience of a short series in a developing country.

Background: Fractures of the femoral neck are rare injuries in children but can have many devastating complications. Their treatment is not standardized, but the objectives are early anatomic reduction to minimize the risk for complications. The aim of this study was to assess outcomes of a short series of femoral neck fractures managed in a resource-limited setting.

[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.

Aesthetic, urological, orthopaedic and functional outcomes in complex bladder exstrophy-epispadias's management.

Background: Postoperative complications are related to the surgical procedures, of failures of initial bladder closure and influence the urological, aesthetical and orthopaedic outcomes.

Materials And Methods: We reviewed four patients who underwent complex bladder exstrophy-epispadias repair over a period of 14 years. The outcomes of treatment were assessed using, aesthetic, urological and orthopaedic examination data.

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.

Sporadic occurrence of jarcho-levin syndrome in an ivorian newborn.

We report on an isolated chest-wall asymmetry with imaging findings of multiple vertebral and related rib defects in an Ivorian male newborn. He was born of a healthy and young couple without parental lineage, neither family malformative history nor teratogen exposure. This clinical presentation advocates Jarcho-Levin syndrome, a rare sporadic or familial disorder inherited as autosomal dominant or recessive mode and manifested by extensive vertebral segmentation defects with distinctive rib structural and morphological anomalies.

[Labial fusion in the paediatric surgery department of Yopougon University hospital (Côte d'Ivoire): 108 cases].

Introduction: Labial fusion is a benign genital disorder in girls. It may be either congenital or acquired, sometimes due to poor hygiene. Parental panic about this "absent vagina" contrasts with its simple, rapid, radical treatment.