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  1. Heterotaxy syndrome is a rare clinical entity that is characterized by abnormal visceral organ arrangement in the chest and abdomen. Left atrial isomerism is a subcategory of heterotaxy syndrome characterized ...

    Authors: Faysal Tabbara, Karim Wehby Ataya, Youssef Annous, Kawsar Alamiddine and Ahmad Zaghal

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2021 17:21

    Content type: Case Reports

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  2. Recently, several serum and urinary biomarkers have been investigated for diagnosis of acute appendicitis. Urinary biomarkers seem to be advantageous in children as it is non-invasive, painless, and easy to pe...

    Authors: Santosh Kumar Mahalik, Debapriya Bandyopadhyay, Bikasha Bihary Tripathy, Akash Bihari Pati and Manoj Kumar Mohanty

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2021 17:22

    Content type: Original Research

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  3. Lipoblastoma is a rare benign neoplasm of the adipose tissue occurring most commonly in infants and young children. This tumor can present as a localized, well-circumscribed lesion (lipoblastoma) or as a multi...

    Authors: Adewale Olaotan Oyinloye, Nasiru Raheem, Aminu M. C. Dahiru, Christopher Uruku Rikin and Auwal Mohammed Abubakar

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2021 17:23

    Content type: Case Reports

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  4. Appendicitis is the most common cause of acute abdomen. Although emergency surgery used to be the standard treatment for both simple and complex appendicitis, there are now options for interval surgery, laparo...

    Authors: Toshiro Kimura, Yoshikazu Toyoki, Aika Ichisawa, Takahiro Yamada, Yusuke Wakasa, Hiroyuki Jin, Makoto Nakai, Kazunori Aoki, Hiroaki Kawashima and Masaaki Endo

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2021 17:18

    Content type: Original Research

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  5. Teratoma of the hepatoduodenal ligament is a rare entity. Only 17 cases of hepatoduodenal ligament teratoma exist in the literature.

    Authors: Ruchira Nandan, Anjan Dhua, Sidharth Tyagi, Vishesh Jain, Sandeep Agarwala and Veereshwar Bhatnagar

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2021 17:19

    Content type: Case Reports

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  6. Retroperitoneal germ cell tumors (GCTs) are rare, commonly large tumors, often diagnosed in infancy. Complete surgical resection may pose a serious challenge as encasement of major vessels and organ displaceme...

    Authors: Juliette F. Bollemeijer, Annelies M. C. Mavinkurve-Groothuis, Cezanne D. Kooij, József Zsiros, Annemieke S. Littooij, Alida F. W. van der Steeg, Marc H. W. A. Wijnen and Caroline C. C. Hulsker

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2021 17:20

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  8. Pediatric pyeloplasty in ureteropelvic junction obstruction (UPJO) is indicated in renal impaired drainage or renal function deterioration. The improvement of renal function after pediatric pyeloplasty is stil...

    Authors: Elsayed Salih, Ibrahim Abdelmaksoud, Mohamed Elfeky, Gamal Selmy, Hussein Galal and Mohsen Zekry

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2021 17:17

    Content type: Original Research

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  9. Neonatal gastric perforation (NGP) is a rare, serious, and life-threatening condition which needs early recognition with prompt intervention for better prognosis. Its etiology is not yet well established, but ...

    Authors: Imran Hashim, Nabila Talat, Asif Iqbal, Muhammad Saleem Choudhary, Naveed Haider, Sajid Iqbal Nayyer, Muhammad Sharif, Arslan Raza Wasti and Sarfraz Ahmad

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2021 17:13

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  10. The urachus is an embryological structure of the urogenital sinus and allantoid that connects the allantois to the early bladder in fetal life and then remains as the median umbilical ligament connecting the u...

    Authors: Salvatore Arena, Marta Rossanese, Donatella Di Fabrizio, Carmelo Romeo, Vincenzo Ficarra and Pietro Impellizzeri

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2021 17:11

    Content type: Case Reports

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  12. Duodenal duplication cyst is an uncommon foregut malformation usually diagnosed at birth or during infancy. Differently from elsewhere, sited small bowel duplications cannot be removed with simple bowel resect...

    Authors: Diego Falchetti, Antonio Dessanti, Marcella Falchetti and Gianpaolo Strusi

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2021 17:12

    Content type: Case Reports

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  13. Acute appendicitis is the most common surgical condition of children. Differential diagnosis of an acutely inflamed appendix in children includes a vast variety of diseases which can present with the same symp...

    Authors: Muhammad Adil Iftikhar, Sajid Hameed Dar, Usman Ali Rahman, Maliha Javaid Butt, Mohammad Sajjad, Umar Hayat and Nayyar Sultan

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2021 17:10

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  14. Gastric duplication cyst is a rare congenital anomaly. It is usually located in close proximity to the stomach. Nevertheless, there have been seldom reports in the literature that describe unusual locations. R...

    Authors: Mahmood Masud Al Awfi, Zainab Nasser Al Balushi, Suad Rashid Al Jahdhami, Mahmoud Hatem Sherif and Sareyah Al Sibai

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2021 17:14

    Content type: Case Reports

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  15. Circumcision is a surgical removal process of the preputium. Surgical excision and electric current cause neurodegeneration in the excised tissue-related neural network. This study investigates if circumcision...

    Authors: Ozgur Caglar, Remzi Arslan, Binali Firinci, Muhammed Enes Aydin, Erdem Karadeniz, Kemal Alp Nalci, Ahmet Bedii Salman and Mehmet Dumlu Aydin

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2021 17:15

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  16. Intussusception is the one of the commonest causes of intestinal obstruction requiring urgent attention in early childhood. There is no gold standard of non-operative reduction. We report our 6 years’ experien...

    Authors: Karunesh Chand, Ravi Patcharu, Badal Parikh and Arun Kumar Yadav

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2021 17:9

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  17. Prenatal penetrating gunshot trauma represents a challenging scenario for healthcare providers. Trauma is the leading non-obstetric cause of morbidity and mortality during pregnancy, and even though rare, fire...

    Authors: Camila Gonzalez Ruhrnschopf, Aixa Reusmann, Mariano Boglione, Soledad Arbio and Marcelo Barrenechea

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2021 17:6

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  18. The diagnosis of acute appendicitis in children is quite challenging as the rate of negative appendectomy varies between 15 and 57%. Increased utilization of imaging diagnostic facilities in advanced countries...

    Authors: Ademola Olusegun Talabi, Tewogbade Adeoye Adedeji, Oludayo Adedapo Sowande and Olusanya Adejuyigbe

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2021 17:8

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  19. Gastric outlet obstruction (GOO) may follow acid corrosive ingestion. Several surgical techniques have been reported after the failure of endoscopic dilatation. The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasib...

    Authors: Essam A. Elhalaby, Nezar Abd Erouf Abo Halawa, Ismael E. Elhalaby, Dina Shawky, Hussam Hassan and Hisham A. Almetaher

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2021 17:16

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  21. Scrotoschisis is a rare anomaly in which the testis is lying outside scrotum congenitally. Only few cases have been reported in literature under different names most of which are unilateral. We have found only...

    Authors: Shazia Perveen, Mishraz Shaikh and Sajid Ali

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2021 17:5

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  22. Pediatric patients rarely exhibit Baker’s cysts. This study was conducted on 15 cases (9 males, 6 females) presented with Baker (popliteal) cyst in the last 2 years (from September 2017 to September 2019). The...

    Authors: Mohammed A. Mansour, Mohammed A. Shehata, Mohammed M. Shalaby, Mohammed A. Arafa and Hisham A. Almetaher

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2021 17:4

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  23. Acute appendicitis is one of the most common abdominal emergencies in children. Complicated appendicitis is much more common in pediatric age group than in adults due to probability of delay in diagnosis or mi...

    Authors: Mohammad Seqsaqa, Ahmed Ezzat Rozeik, Mohammed Khalifa and Hazem Nour Abdellatif Ashri

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2021 17:3

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  24. To explore the association between patent urachus and bladder outflow obstruction (BOO). A retrospective review of patient records over a 35-year period (1983–2018) with complete patent urachus was performed. ...

    Authors: Heba Taher, Sharmila Ramnarine, Naima Smeulders, Divyesh Desai, Imran Mushtaq, Peter Cuckow and Abraham Cherian

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2021 17:2

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  25. Infectious diseases have always been the lime light of global health with very little focus on childhood surgical conditions despite the fact that children constitute about half of the population in LMICs. A s...

    Authors: Maame Tekyiwa Botchway, Deirdre Kruger, Charles Adjei Manful and Andrew Grieve

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2021 16:44

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  26. Laryngotracheal stenosis is a major cause of airway obstruction in pediatric age. The correction of such abnormality still remains a challenge, both because of anatomical issues in childhood and also due to th...

    Authors: Melissa Ameloti Gomes Avelino, Laís da Silveira Botacin and Miguel Angel Corrales Coutinho

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2021 17:1

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  27. Ganglioneuroma is a rare neurogenic tumor which could grow into massive size in the thorax with minimal or no symptoms. Resection of these tumors will be challenging in view of large size and vascular encaseme...

    Authors: Mathula Hettiarachchi, Chanuka Dharmadasa, Ashoka Wijeyananda, Kapila Hettiarachchi and Bandula Samarasinghe

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2020 16:54

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  29. Epithelioid hemangioma is a rare, benign vascular lesion classically presenting with painless nodules in the head and neck region. Hemangioma lesions are typically small, located within the dermis and subcutan...

    Authors: Claire J. Wiggins, Rami P. Dibbs, Erica L. Bartlett, Daniel J. Ashton and Renata S. Maricevich

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2020 16:53

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  30. Post-omphalocele ventral hernias (POVH) are common after giant omphaloceles. Abdominal wall botulinum toxin injections (BTI) are useful to treat complex incisional hernias (CIH) in adults, which may also apply...

    Authors: Lisieux Eyer de Jesus, Thais Cardoso Leve, Celine Fulgencio and Samuel Dekermacher

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2020 16:56

    Content type: Original Research

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  31. Feeding gastrostomy is widely used in children that have troubles of swallowing and need to stablish enteral feeding. There are several methods for creation of that stoma. After the children gain their normal ...

    Authors: Mohammad Gharieb Khirallah and Nasir Bustangi

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2020 16:47

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  32. Classifying anorectal anomalies (ARA) has always been a matter of debate among pediatric surgeons. A new classification does not necessarily imply discarding older ones. Several concepts have been introduced i...

    Authors: Amr Abdelhamid AbouZeid, Shaimaa Abdelsattar Mohammad, Sherif Elhussiny Ibrahim and Leila Rawash ElDieb

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2020 16:42

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  33. Alimentary tract duplications are rare anomalies and any delay in the diagnosis may develop various complications. Infection, hemorrhage, or perforation of the duplication cyst may lead to an acute presentatio...

    Authors: Muhammad Bilal Mirza, Asim Shahzad, Nasir Mahmood, Ahmed Imran, Mahvish Hussain, Zafar Fayyaz and Nabila Talat

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2020 16:51

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  34. Hydatid disease is relatively uncommon in children and thus rarely reported in literature. Pediatric patients with large hydatid cysts can have grave complications due to mass effect. Postoperative bile leak i...

    Authors: Saswati Behera, Monika Bawa, Ravi P. Kanojia, Ashwani Sood and Ram Samujh

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2020 16:43

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  35. Upper gastrointestinal (UGI) series is the standard imaging tool for diagnosis of structural and functional abnormalities affecting the esophagus, stomach, and proximal small bowel. The aim of this study was t...

    Authors: Eman Ahmed Hamed, Shaimaa Abdelsattar Mohammad, Leila M. Rawash Eldieb and Mennatallah Hatem Shalaby

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2020 16:52

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  36. Pediatric presentations of a prostatic utricle have received only little attention. The incidence of symptomatic prostatic utricle has been reported but most cases are asymptomatic. The purpose of this study i...

    Authors: Manjiri S., Kush Luthra, Padmalatha S. K., Jeevak Shetty and Neehar Patil

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2020 16:50

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  37. Lump or mass formation due to delayed presentation after appendicitis is common, and it is frequently complicated by perforation, gangrene, pus, or abscess formation. Care of patients and management vary betwe...

    Authors: M. A. Mushfiqur Rahman, Tanvir Kabir Chowdhury, Mohammad Zonaid Chowdhury and Md. Abdullah Al Farooq

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2020 16:39

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  38. Although the outcome of hypospadias repair has much improved, repair of a small-sized phallus is still challenging. Whether preoperative hormonal therapy is beneficial remains controversial.

    Authors: Islam Mahmoud Wali, Amr Abdelhamid AbouZeid, Nehal Ahmed Radwan, Mohamed Abdel Sattar GadAllah, Wael Ahmed Ghanem and Osama El-Naggar

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2020 16:38

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  39. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in many changes to clinical practice, including the introduction of remote clinics. Those familiar with remote clinics have reported benefits to their use, such as patient sa...

    Authors: A. M. Charnell, E. Hannon, D. Burke, M. R. Iredale and J. R. Sutcliffe

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2020 16:49

    Content type: How I do it article

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  41. Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) is a therapeutic procedure for the management of several hematological diseases and malignancies in pediatric population. Central venous catheters (CVCs) play a pivotal role d...

    Authors: Ahmed Elgendy, Ahmed M. Ismail, Eslam Elhawary, Ahmed Badran and Mohammed Ramadan El-Shanshory

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2020 16:46

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  42. Meckel’s diverticulum (MD) is the commonest congenital abnormality of the gastrointestinal tract that occurs in 2% of general population. It remains asymptomatic, but it may lead to life-threatening complicati...

    Authors: Hisham A. Almetaher and Mohammed Awad Mansour

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2020 16:45

    Content type: Original Research

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  43. Intussusception is the most common intestinal obstruction among infants and young children. Most of the pediatric cases are ileo-cecal, while jejuno-jejunal and ileo-ileal combined contribute only 2.5% of the ...

    Authors: Gilang Vigorous Akbar Eka Candy and Supangat Supangat

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2020 16:41

    Content type: Case Reports

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  45. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the feasibility, safety, efficacy, benefits, and outcome of elective laparoscopic splenectomy for children younger than 5 years with sickle cell disease (SCD) who neede...

    Authors: Taha Alkhatrawi, Radi Elsherbini and Waheed Turkistani

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2020 16:35

    Content type: Original Research

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  46. Different laparoscopic approaches for insertion of a peritoneal dialysis catheter (PDC) have been adopted. Most of these techniques require 2–3 ports. One port laparoscopic technique for PDC placement was intr...

    Authors: Nasir Bustangi and Mohammad Gharieb Khirallah

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2020 16:33

    Content type: Original Research

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  47. Intestinal strictures are an extremely rare and life-threating complication in patients undergoing allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT). We describe the case of a child operated for mu...

    Authors: Agnieszka Sobkowiak-Sobierajska, Michał Błaszczyński, Przemysław Mańkowski and Jacek Wachowiak

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2020 16:37

    Content type: Case Reports

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  50. Delayed presentation of congenital diaphragmatic hernia is an uncommon event. Occurrence of gastric volvulus with massive necrosis in this setting is unusual. In this difficult scenario, the surgeon is faced w...

    Authors: G. Krishna Kumar, U. Mallikarjun and D. Reshma

    Citation: Annals of Pediatric Surgery 2020 16:31

    Content type: Case Reports

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