Pediatric Surgery International

Circumumbilical pyloromyotomy: larger pyloric tumours need an extended incision

A. R. Khan, A. R. Al-Bassam

Anorectal injuries in children

Emmanuel A. Ameh

Cineradiographic evaluation of postoperative patients with esophageal atresia and tracheoesophageal fistula

H. K. Dutta, M. Rajani, V. Bhatnagar

Waugh's syndrome: a report of six patients

V. M. Breckon, G. P. Hadley

The relation between human leukocyte antigen (HLA) distribution and intestinal obstruction and adhesions in childhood: preliminary report

Ergun Erdoğan, Sinan Celayir, Egemen Eroğlu, Erkan Yilmaz

Meconium peritonitis in utero

Shinkichi Kamata, Keisuke Nose, Shiroh Ishikawa, Noriaki Usui, Toshio Sawai, Yasuhiro Kitayama, Hirohmi Okuyama, Kenji Imura, Akira Okada

Ultrasound-guided percutaneous sclerotherapy of hydatid liver cysts in children

Adnan Kabaaliogˇlu, Kamil Karaali, Ali Apaydin, Mustafa Melikogˇlu, Timur Sindel, Ersin Lüleci

Venous patency after open central-venous cannulation

I. E. Willetts, M. Ayodeji, W. H. Ramsden, R. Squire

Fetal intestinal graft is the best source for intestinal transplantation

M. F. Lopes, A. M. S. Cabrita, J. A. B. Patrício

Intestinal bypass of the oesophagus: 117 patients in 28 years

A. Appignani, V. Lauro, M. Prestipino, N. Centonze, R. Dòmini

Penoscrotal inversion, hypospadias, imperforate anus, facial anomalies, and developmental delay: definition of a new clinical syndrome

Ursula Kuhnle, Oliver Bartsch, Walter Werner, Tobias Schuster

Defecation problems in children with Hirschsprung's disease: a biopsychosocial approach

E. M. van Kuyk, A. T. M. Brugman-Boezeman, M. Wissink-Essink, R. S. V. M. Severijnen, C. Festen, G. Bleijenberg

Biopsychosocial treatment of defecation problems in children with anal atresia: a retrospective study

E. M. van Kuyk, A. T. M. Brugman-Boezeman, M. Wissink-Essink, R. S. V. M. Severijnen, C. Festen, G. Bleijenberg

Prognosis of extrahepatic bile-duct atresia after hepatoportoenterostomy

P. Schweizer, M. Schweizer, K. Schellinger, H. J. Kirschner, C. Schittenhelm

Morbidity in infants with antenatally-diagnosed anterior abdominal wall defects

G. Dimitriou, A. Greenough, J. S. Mantagos, M. Davenport, K. H. Nicolaides

Hydrostatic reduction of intussusception: barium, air, or saline?

S. Shehata, N. El Kholi, A. Sultan, E. El Sahwi

Incidence of surgical site infections in pediatric patients: a 3-month prospective study in an academic pediatric surgical unit

Ö. Uludag, P. Rieu, M. Niessen, A. Voss

Gastric teratoma in children

D. K. Gupta, M. Srinivas, S. Dave, S. Agarwala, M. Bajpai, D. K. Mitra

Head and neck teratomas in children

Ashish Wakhlu, A. K. Wakhlu

Window rectostomy: an alternative method of fecal diversion for high anorectal malformations in males without a urinary fistula

S. Kulshrestha, M. Kulshrestha, B. Singh, I. P. Elhence, N. Chaturvedi, V. Tewari, B. Sarkar

Defecation problems in children

Cortisol and adrenocorticotropic hormone response to surgical stress (splenectomy) in thalassemic patients

S. A. Banani, G. H. Omrani

Ovarian torsion in inguinal hernias

T. E. Merriman, A. W. Auldist

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Pitfalls in the interpretation of MIBG scans in cervical neuroblastoma

Natalie L. Yanchar, Shirley Chou

Lipoblastoma: better termed infantile lipoma?

K. A. O'Donnell, M. G. Caty, J. E. Allen, J. E. Fisher

Multiple neurilemmomas of the penis

S. K. Pandit, K. N. Rattan, U. Gupta, S. Budhiraja, Y. Singh, Jyotsna Sen, Rajiv Sen

Rhabdoid tumour of the kidney: a diagnostic challenge and a fatal outcome

S. R. Desai, V. Upadhyay

Wilms' tumor with vena caval, atrial, and middle hepatic vein tumor thrombus

V. Sripathi, K. V. Muralidharan, S. Ramesh, S. Muralinath

Spontaneous scrotal faecal fistula in an infant

L. S. Kasat, V. S. Waingankar, T. Kamat, Anilkumar, G. Bahety, I. V. Meisheri

Congenital spigelian hernia and cryptorchidism: cause or coincidence?

Ahmed H. Al-Salem

Peutz-Jeghers syndrome: is family screening needed?

G. Baumgartner, J. Neuweiler, D. Herzog

Congenital urethrocutaneous fistula

Man Mohan Harjai

Caudal duplication – a case report

K. N. Rattan, Sushil Budhiraja, S. K. Pandit, R. S. Solanki, R. Sen, Jyotsna Sen

Indications for laparotomy in infection with verotoxigenic Escherichia coli

Kari Vanamo

Nesidioblastosis with necrotising enterocolitis: an enigma

M. S. Kulkarni, V. A. Upadhyay

Antral web – a rare cause of vomiting in children

Kar-Wai Lui, Ho-Fai Wong, Yung-Liang Wan, Chien-Fu Hung, Koon-Kwan Ng, Jeng-Hwei Tseng

Rotary atlanto-axial subluxation with torticollis following central-venous catheter insertion

Paul Brisson, Haroon Patel, Ronald Scorpio, Neil Feins

Gastric wall erosion by an amebic liver abscess in a 3-year-old girl

Carlos Angel, Nisha Chand, Aravind Sankar, Judith Rowen, Carlos Murillo

Posttraumatic high-flow priapism: treatment with selective embolisation

K. R. Shankar, S. Babar, P. Rowlands, M. O. Jones

Congenital duodenal obstruction: early antenatal ultrasound diagnosis

Matthew J. Lawrence, W. D. Andrew Ford, Margaret E. Furness, Tina Hayward, Toni Wilson

Caroli syndrome

Man Mohan Harjai, R. K. Bal

Primary pyogenic psoas abscess in children

D. Kadambari, S. Jagdish

Antenatal dexamethasone administration inhibits smooth-muscle-cell DNA synthesis in pulmonary-arterial media in nitrofen-induced congenital diaphragmatic hernia in rats

Yasuhiko Taira, Hideki Shima, Eiji Miyazaki, Kiyohiko Ohshiro, Prem Puri

Successful use of the “patch, drain, and wait” laparotomy approach to perforated necrotizing enterocolitis: is hypoxia-triggered “good angiogenesis” involved?

Thomas C. Moore