Therapeutic strategy of papillary cystic and solid neoplasm (PCSN): a rare non-endocrine tumor of the pancreas in children.

Papillary-cystic and solid neoplasm (PCSN) are rare tumors. Two personal observations and a review of the literature are presented with a total of 44 pediatric patients in addition to a total of 67 published cases in the review of Cohen (Pediatr. Surg.

Follicular lymphoid hyperplasia simulating intussusception in a 6-year-old boy: clinical, radiological and histopathological findings.

We report the case of a 6-year-old boy who initially presented with recurrent abdominal pain. Diagnostic imaging, including ultrasound and CT, showed findings typical of an ileocecal intussusception with abdominal lymphadenopathy. Sonographically, the morphological appearance of the intussusception did not change during a 4-week follow-up period.

Neurogenic appendicopathy in children.

Background: In a prospective multicenter study, we could show that neurogenic appendicopathy is a histological entity. This study compares the general and the pediatric population with respect to clinical presentation and incidence of neurogenic appendicopathy (NA).

Methods: Included were patients that underwent appendectomy for suspected appendicitis, excluded were patients younger than 6 years and patients with missing data.

Fibrosarcoma in infants and children: a retrospective analysis - overdiagnosis in earlier years.

During a 30-year period, 22 patients considered to have a fibrosarcoma (FS) were treated. In a retrospective study the clinicopathologic findings were summarized. With histologic and immunohistochemical re-evaluation, the diagnosis was confirmed in 8 cases.