Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions on pediatric appendicitis in Turkey: A single-center experience.

Background: In this study we investigated how the incidence and course of acute appendicitis (AA) changed in children during the pandemic.

Methods: Children diagnosed with AA during the 1-year pandemic period after the first COVID-19 case in Turkey and the previous 1 year were included in the study. Children were divided into two groups: those hospitalized during the pandemic (group A) and those hospitalized in the year before the pandemic (group B).

Inguinal herniotomy with the Mitchell-Banks' technique is safe in older children.

Purpose: There is a tendency for the majority of surgeons to open the inguinal canal in children over two years old when performing inguinal hernia repair. On the other hand, in small children, most surgeons perform the herniotomy superficially to the external ring, as in Mitchell-Banks' technique (MBT). Our aim was to compare the Ferguson hernioplasty (FH) and Mitchell-Banks' technique in terms of recurrence and complication rates in older children.

Determining external genital abnormalities with a pre-circumcision examination in previously undiagnosed male school children.

Purpose: We investigated whether children getting ready for circumcision under local anesthesia had any additional genital region abnormalities not detected before the circumcision.

Materials And Methods: We performed circumcision under local anesthesia for children with normal physical examination findings, and together with corrective surgery for those with other genital anomalies among the children aged 6 years old and over presenting at the pediatric surgery department of our hospital during the school break.

Results: Circumcision was planned under local anesthesia in a total of 1,695 cases aged between 6 and 17 years during the June to September 2010 and 2011 periods.

Using the parents' video camera for the follow-up of children who have undergone hypospadias surgery decreases hospital anxiety of children.

Purpose: We investigated the benefits of using the parents' video camera records for the follow-up of children who had undergone hypospadias surgery in terms of reducing fear and hospital anxiety of the children and the time spent in the waiting room.

Methods: This prospective study was performed on children with proximal hypospadias. The patients were called for the follow-up appointment on the 7th postoperative day and were divided into 3 groups.

A rare cause of childhood ileus: giant mesenteric lipoma and a review of the literature.

Mesenteric lipomas are benign tumors of mature fat cells. They are usually asymptomatic and create a clinical picture that depends on the localization and size of the lipoma. Although rare, unusually large mesenteric giant lipomas can cause partial or complete bowel obstruction.

Late recognized nail aspiration in a child: case report.

Foreign body (FB) aspiration is common in children aged 0-3 years. Our case, a 2.5-year-old girl, presented with sudden onset of cough, fever and sputum; she had been treated twice for acute bronchitis four months ago.

Autologous blood pleurodesis: A good choice in patients with persistent air leak.

Aim: The study compares the efficiency, side effects and complications of autologous blood pleurodesis with talcum powder and tetracycline.

Materials And Methods: This prospective study evaluated 50 patients with persistent air leak resulting from primary and secssondary spontaneous pneumothorax between February 2004 and March 2009. The patients inclussded 32 (64.

Megacystis-microcolon-intestinal hypoperistalsis syndrome: a case report.

Megacystis Microcolon Intestinal Hypoperistalsis Syndrom (MMIHS) is a quite rare congenital and fatal disease which was firstly defined by Berdon and his colleagues. It appears through a widely enlarged bladder and microcolon and its cause is unknown (Berdon et al., 1976; Carmelo et al.

Landmine associated injuries in children in Turkey.

This study aims to examine trends of injuries due to landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) and to determine problems during and after the treatment of children and adolescent victims in Turkey. Data from the records of 23 children injured from landmines and UXO were analyzed from April 2001 to October 2008. Cases consist of 21 (91.

Atresia of the colon.

Background/purpose: Colonic atresia (CA) is one of the rarest causes of neonatal intestinal obstructions, and no large series can be reported. Therefore, we did perform a retrospective clinical trial to delineate our CA cases and carry out a literature survey.

Methods: We reviewed the charts of CA cases treated in our center between 1992 and 2002.