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Pediatr Surg Int
November 2024
Department of Paediatric Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, 751019.
Objectives: The management of total colonic aganglionosis (TCA) in low-middle income countries (LMIC) is challenging. We aimed to analyze the profile, management, and outcome of patients with TCA at an Indian referral centre.
Methods: A retrospective review of demography, presentation, investigations, and treatment of patients with TCA at a single centre over 22 years with a standardized protocol is detailed.
Radiographics
January 2024
From the Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, University of Utah Health, 30 N Mario Capecchi Dr, 2nd Floor South, Salt Lake City, UT 84112.
Fetal genitourinary anomalies can present a diagnostic challenge for the radiologist. The absence of a normally located kidney may represent agenesis or be secondary to a fusion or migration abnormality. A dilated renal pelvis should prompt evaluation for a specific cause, including ureteropelvic junction obstruction, reflux, or an obstructed duplicated system.
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July 2021
Second Department of Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, 811-1, Kimiidera, Wakayama-shi, Wakayama 641-8510, Japan. Electronic address:
Med Pharm Rep
October 2020
Pediatric Surgery Department, Emergency Children's Hospital, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
We present a case of megacystis-microcolon-intestinal hypoperistalsis syndrome (MMIHS) in a four days old female infant who presented with abdominal distension, bilious vomiting, massive hematuria and feeding intolerance which was first interpreted as Prune Belly Syndrome (PBS), referred to our department after iatrogenic gastric and colonic perforation. Berdon syndrome or MMIHS is a rare congenital anomaly characterized by a massive enlarged bladder, distended abdomen, microcolon, functional obstruction of the gastrointestinal tract, and malrotation.
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September 2020
Department of Radiology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, 3401 Civic Center Blvd, 3NW13, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
Purpose: We aim to evaluate the diagnostic performance and relationship between clinical characteristics, imaging findings, and final diagnosis for the neonatal contrast enema (CE).
Methods: Retrospective 10-year review of all neonatal CEs including imaging findings, clinical information, indication, and final diagnosis from discharge summaries, surgical reports, and pathology (reference standard). Two blinded pediatric radiologists reinterpreted 366 CEs for obstruction, microcolon, rectosigmoid index (RSI), serrations, meconium, ileal cut-off, transition zone, diagnosis, and level of confidence.
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