Metrical evaluation of Slovak patients with pectus excavatum.

Purpose: We have started to assess the severity of pectus excavatum by means of anthropometric methods prior to CT examination since 2012. The aim of the study was to establish a significance of anthropometry as first-line diagnostic method. Afterwards, we analyzed statistical significance of differences in selected anthropometric indicators before and after surgical intervention.

First experience with single incision laparoscopic surgery in Slovakia: concomitant cholecystectomy and splenectomy in an 11-year-old girl with hereditary spherocytosis.

Aims: Hereditary spherocytosis is an autosomal dominant inheritance disorder of the red blood cell membrane characterized by the presence of spherical-shaped erythrocytes (spherocytes) in the peripheral blood. The main clinical features include haemolytic anemia, variable jaundice, splenomegaly and cholelithiasis caused by hyperbilirubinemia from erythrocyte hemolysis. Splenectomy does not solve the congenital genetic defect but it stops pathological hemolysis in the enlarged spleen.

Poland syndrome: from embryological basis to plastic surgery.

Poland syndrome is a rare congenital anomaly described by Sir Alfred Poland over 170 years ago. Combination of unilateral aplasia of the sternocostal head of musculus pectoralis major, and an ipsilateral hypoplastic hand with simple syndactyly and short fingers is typical for this condition. It occurs more frequent among males, and is usually situated on the right hemithorax in the unilateral form.

Fetus in fetu from newborn's mediastinum: case report and a review of literature.

Fetus in fetu is a rare congenital anomaly, when the malformed monozygotic twin is found within the body of a living child or sometimes in an adult. We report a case of fetus in fetu diagnosed during the early third trimester of pregnancy, in the medial and inferior portions of anterior mediastinum of the dominant twin. The diagnosis was suspected by prenatal ultrasound and fetal magnetic resonance imaging.

The first histological and immunohistochemical examination of thymus in a case of fetus in fetu.

Fetus in fetu (FIF) is a rare condition with less than 150 cases reported in the world to the best of our knowledge. It is a malformed monozygotic twin ("non-dominant twin"), which is found inside the body of a living child or sometimes in an adult ("dominant twin"). Different organs can be seen in these fetuses; vertebral column limbs, central nervous system, gastrointestinal tract, vessels, and genitourinary tract.

Rare peripheral femoral nerve neuropathy in children.

Peripheral neuropathy of the femoral nerve is extremely rare. In the literature, we found descriptions of only 50 similar patients, mainly as a complication of coagulopathies, and none of intrapelvic tumors. Three children with a rare peripheral neuropathy of the femoral nerve as a complication of extraperitoneal pelvic masses are described in this report.