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A 7.5-year-old boy was admitted to our department with left undescended testis. On surgical exploration, the vas deferens and epididymis were normal in appearance in its route to the scrotum, but no obvious testis or testis-like structure was identified.

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A male infant presented at birth with intestine and liver herniated through a defect 3 cm below the left nipple on the anterior thoracic wall. Riedel lobe, attached to the left liver lobe, and the transverse colon were seen protruding through the defect at the region of the left eighth intercostal space at surgery. A fibrous band extending from the lower defect border to the bladder was present.

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Typhlitis in acute childhood leukemia.

Med Princ Pract

April 2012

Department of Pediatric Hematology, Dr. Sami Ulus Children's Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.

Objective: To review our experience with typhlitis among children treated for acute leukemia.

Material And Methods: The medical records of children with acute leukemia and typhlitis between 2006 and 2009 were reviewed for demographics and symptoms, and for microbiological and imaging findings.

Results: In the 75 children with acute leukemia--54 with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and 21 with acute myeloid leukemia (AML)--there were 10 episodes of typhlitis (4.

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  • * The highest ARF incidence was found in the 1990s, especially in males aged 2 to 15, with common symptoms including carditis (64.7%) and arthritis (59.1%).
  • * Despite a decrease in ARF incidence over the last decade, it remains a significant issue for Turkey's child health, with a 0.8% mortality rate and 58% prevalence of chronic rheumatic valvular disease.
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Tularemia is a zoonotic disease caused by Francisella tularensis. The clinical forms mostly depend on the port of entry into humans. Ingestion typically results in the oropharyngeal form and is associated with symptoms such as fever, pharyngitis, cervical lymphadenitis, and suppuration.

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Neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) have been shown in 20% of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) cases. NFTs contain paired helical filaments formed by hyperphosphorylated tau. The intraneuronal tau metabolism and the rate of formation of paired helical filaments can be regulated by interactions between tau and isoforms of Apolipoprotein E (Apo E).

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Perianal abscess and fistula-in-ano in children: clinical characteristic, management and outcome.

Pediatr Surg Int

October 2011

Departments of Pediatric Surgery and Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Dr. Sami Ulus Children's Hospital, Babür Cad., No: 44, Altındağ, 06080, Ankara, Turkey.

Purpose: The aims of this study are to evaluate the clinical characteristics of perianal abscess and fistula-in-ano in children, and to assess our experience in treatment, and to identify factors that affected the clinical outcomes.

Methods: A retrospective review of children with perianal abscess and fistula-in-ano was carried out in a tertiary care children's hospital from January 2005 to December 2010. Demographic information of the patients, localization of the lesions, treatment procedures, microbial organisms in pus, usage of antibiotics, abscess recurrence, development of fistula-in-ano, and duration of symptoms were recorded.

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Clinical signs of hypophosphatemia, even when severe, are rare in diabetic ketoacidosis despite their high frequency in this condition. This article presents a patient with rhabdomyolysis due to severe hypophosphatemia, where the level of serum phosphorus was observed to be as low as 0.42 mg/dL on the 16th hour of ketoacidosis treatment.

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The prognosis for relapsing or refractory neuroblastoma (NB) remains dismal, with a five-year disease-free survival of < 20%, and no effective salvage treatment has been identified so far. 131I-metaiodobenzylguanidine (131I-MIBG) has come to play an essential role in the imaging and therapy of NB over the past 30 years. The role of 131I-MIBG in the treatment of NB is continually expanding.

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Nosocomial blood stream infections continue to be a cause of high mortality and morbidity in newborn intensive care units (NICUs). Identification of the causative microorganisms and their antimicrobial sensitivities will guide the selection of appropriate empirical treatment. We prospectively evaluated culture-proven nosocomial sepsis cases and antibiotic sensitivity patterns seen in the NICU of Dr.

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Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the ocular manifestations of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) and to investigate possible risk factors in a relatively large series of patients.

Methods: In this prospective study, patients who were diagnosed with SSPE and had undergone ophthalmic examination were included.

Results: Of the 59 patients with SSPE, 25 (42.

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Background: Inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) are the first-line therapy in the treatment of persistent asthma. At medium to high doses and prolonged usage, ICS can supresss the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. Dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate (DHEA-S) is a corticotropin-dependent adrenal androgen precursor that is supressible in patients treated with ICS.

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Aim: To investigate the frequency of MEFV mutations and their associations with the clinical and laboratory findings in children with Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP).

Methods: One hundred and seven children with HSP were investigated for 12 common MEFV mutations.

Results: Forty-seven patients (43.

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This study reports a 1-year-old boy with unilateral partial duplication of vas deferens, diagnosed during surgery for undescended testis. Pediatric surgeons need to be aware of this kind of anomaly in order to avoid injury to this vital structure.

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Purpose: We investigated the efficacy of ultrasound in determining megarectum and fecal load and the response to treatment in constipation and tried to specify objective criteria in this study.

Methods: A total of 66 cases were queried and divided into 2 groups as constipated (n = 35; mean age, 6.8 ± 2.

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A 6-week-old girl, the first child of non-consanguineous parents, was admitted to the hospital for evaluation of vomiting. She was small for gestational age (1500 g). On admission, she weighed 1830 g, and appeared dehydrated.

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Purpose: We aimed to analyze the outcome of circumcisions performed with a new minimally invasive circumcision device.

Methods: This is the first study, which reports the results of 7,500 children circumcised with minimally invasive technique utilizing a plastic clamp device (Ali's clamp) in our country. The results of this technique are compared to those of 5,700 children who underwent conventional circumcision.

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Congenital lumbar hernia (CLH) is rarely seen in children and the patients with CLH usually have other congenital anomalies. The most common clinical presentation of CLH, previously named lumbocostovertebral syndrome, includes hemivertebrae, absent ribs, and abdominal wall muscle hypoplasia. We report on an infant of a diabetic mother presenting with CLH with other anomalies, and we speculate that this clinical picture fits a developmental field defect associated with maternal diabetes.

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Objective: To evaluate the accuracy of urine sample collection methods among children suspected of having urinary tract infections.

Subjects And Methods: Four methods for urine sample collection were evaluated in 1,067 children aged 0-16 years with suspected urinary tract infections over 2 months at Dr. Sami Ulus Children's Hospital.

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Objective: It has been suggested that both low iron and zinc levels might be associated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms. However, the association of zinc and iron levels with ADHD symptoms has not been investigated at the same time in a single sample.

Method: 118 subjects with ADHD (age = 7-14 years, mean = 9.

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Purpose: Aim of the study was to evaluate the efficacy of the transscrotal approach in redo orchiopexy.

Material And Methods: Redo orchiopexy using the transscrotal approach was used to treat 16 testes during a 4-year period from 2005 to 2009. Five of these cases occurred following inguinal hernia repair and 11 after previous orchiopexy.

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Neurodegenerative diseases characterized by cytoskeletal deformation and neurofibrillary tangles are associated with altered levels of tau and related proteins in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Neuronal or glial fibrillary tangles have been shown in 20% of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) patients. We therefore investigated CSF samples from 60 newly diagnosed SSPE and 31 neurological control patients for total tau (t-tau), phosphorylated tau (p-tau), and S100-B levels by ELISA.

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Purpose: Peripheral lymphadenopathy is frequently encountered in children, but it is difficult to determine the etiology. Our aim in this study was to evaluate the risk of malignancy in childhood peripheral lymphadenopathy, determine the factors accompanying a malignant etiology and find out which additional findings strongly indicate malignancy.

Methods: Patients from whom a peripheral lymphadenopathy biopsy had been obtained between January 2005 and December 2007 were retrospectively reviewed.

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