Tips and Tricks-3 Use Cases of Interdisciplinary Knowledge Transfer in Minimally Invasive Pediatric Surgery.

In the pediatric surgical environment, we can enrich our knowledge and improve our skills through interdisciplinary knowledge transfer in exchange with other surgical or even non-surgical disciplines. To demonstrate this, we present in this article three patient cases of method transfer enabling new techniques in minimally invasive pediatric surgery. 1.

Transcranial midbrain sonography in narcoleptic subjects with and without concomitant REM sleep behaviour disorder.

Substantia nigra (SN) hyperechogenicity--a sonographic vulnerability marker for Parkinson's disease (PD)--has been recently described in patients with idiopathic REM sleep behaviour disorder (RBD). It is not known whether subjects with narcolepsy (who frequently have associated RBD) also show SN hyperechogenicity. The aim of this study was to (1) evaluate SN echogenicity in narcolepsy and (2) determine whether transcranial sonography (TCS) differs in narcoleptic subjects with and without RBD.