abstract：:The immunomodulator Corynebacterium parvum stimulates the reticuloendothelial system and causes splenic hypertrophy. The ability of C parvum to stimulate splenic regeneration in hemisplenectomized mice and decrease susceptibility to intranasal pneumococcal challenge was studied. Mice were divided into two groups, cont...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Cooney DR,Lewis AD,Waz W,Khan AR,Karp MP

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of fetal breathing movements or increased loss of fetal lung fluid into the amniotic space have been suggested as two possible mechanisms causing pulmonary hypoplasia in the setting of oligohydramnios (OH). We examined the effect of OH produced by amniotic fluid shunting (AS) into the maternal abdominal cav...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Adzick NS,Harrison MR,Glick PL,Villa RL,Finkbeiner W

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is no definitive treatment of hepatoblastoma. Except for radical resection, the prognosis of unresectable cases remains pessimistic. Therefore, the development of new anticancer drugs for this tumor is urgently needed. Using the human hepatoblastoma cell line (c-HB-3) we demonstrated that horse anti-alpha-fetopr...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Hata Y,Uchino J,Sasaki F,Une Y,Naito H,Sato K,Kukita K,Sano H,Kasai Y,Tsukada Y

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a 4-year span, 12 patients with hepatic trauma were treated at our institution. After initial resuscitation, three underwent emergency celiotomy because of the severity of their injuries. This communication analyses the other nine. All of these had significant liver injuries and were managed nonoperatively. Hepatic...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Grisoni ER,Gauderer MW,Ferron J,Izant RJ Jr

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A lateral skin-flap perineoplasty has been used in 15 patients born with an absent anal canal. The aim behind the introduction of this modification was the prevention of mucosal prolapse. On early assessment, this has been achieved in 11 of the cases. This represents a 50% improvement on our previous results. ...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Davies MR,Cywes S

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews the past 25 years of experience with these lesions at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, during which 19 infants and children were treated. There were 8 females and 11 males. Nine of these patients were under 1 year of age at presentation, 5 were between the ages of 1 and 10 years, 5 were olde...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Superina RA,Ein SH,Humphreys RP

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although microtia occurs in only 1:7000 to 8000 births, this major congenital ear deformity can result in significant psychological trauma for the affected child. Reconstruction of this complex deformity represents one of the greatest challenges to the reconstructive surgeon. Based on the pioneering work of Tanzer and...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Bauer BS

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hirschsprung's disease has become a more common cause of newborn intestinal obstruction in the past 30 years. In a group of 137 newborns with intestinal obstruction the most common diagnosis was necrotizing enterocolitis. The second most common cause, however, was Hirschsprung's disease. We have reviewed 26 infants wi...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Klein MD,Coran AG,Wesley JR,Drongowski RA

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 8-month-old boy was found to have a solitary hepatic mesenchymal hamartoma. Histologically, the lesion appeared as a large island of loose mesenchymal tissue with few cystic bile ducts and liver cells. Electronmicroscopy showed microvilli on the surface of tumor cells and desmosomes between the cells. Immunohistoch...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Ito H,Kishikawa T,Toda T,Arai M,Muro H

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 31 cases of Hirschsprung's disease, the mean value of erythrocyte AChE activity was discovered to be 91.24 +/- 10.24 u/mL, being significantly higher than that from 127 normal children of 73.51 +/- 9.36 u/mL (P less than 0.001); whereas serum ChE mean value of 14.49 +/- 4.04 u/mL showed no difference from normal co...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： She YX,Shi CR,Chen JZ,Wu YL

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A choledochopancreatic end-to-side ductal anastomosis was successfully performed in 40 puppies as an experimental animal model of choledochopancreatic elongated common channel disorders. Follow-up periods were up to 1 year after surgery. Fusiform dilatation was developed in all puppies. The dilatation was completed wi...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Miyano T,Suruga K,Shimomura H,Nittono H,Yamashiro Y,Matsumoto M

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of infantile dumping syndrome which developed following Nissen fundoplication for gastroesophageal reflux are described. Both infants were fed postoperatively via a gastrostomy and showed the typical clinical picture of dumping with failure to thrive, intermittent diarrhea, lethargy and pallor postprandially...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Hirsig J,Baals H,Tuchschmid P,Spitz L,Stauffer UG

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, interest has been expressed in the correction of diaphragmatic hernia in utero as a solution to the problem of high mortality from this condition. Before such a procedure can be adopted in the human, studies aimed at establishing the contribution such advanced techniques would make in reducing mortality are ...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Puri P,Gorman F

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrops fetalis is classically the result of immune mediated intrauterine hemolysis. Increasingly, however, nonimmunologic abnormalities have been associated with fetal anasarca. A number of these are potentially surgically correctable. Four such infants have been treated at the Arkansas Children's Hospital since 1981...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Golladay ES,Mollitt DL

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amputation remains the standard surgical management for patients with osteosarcoma. However, in carefully selected patients, eradication of the primary tumor can be achieved by En-Bloc resection of the affected bone preserving both anatomical and functional status. Our criteria for limb salvage procedures are that pat...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Rao BN,Champion JE,Pratt CB,Carnesale P,Dilawari R,Fleming I,Green A,Austin B,Wrenn E,Kumar M

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the survival for infants with abdominal wall defects (AWD) has dramatically improved, agreement on the optimum surgical approach has not been reached. From October 1970 through March 1983, 31 neonates with gastroschisis and 14 neonates with omphalocele were treated. Reduction of the herniated viscera with pri...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Schwartz MZ,Tyson KR,Milliorn K,Lobe TE

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective, randomized, double-blind clinical trial was undertaken comparing gentamicin, ampicillin, and clindamycin (GAC) to gentamicin, ampicillin, and placebo (GAP) in children with complicated appendicitis. Of the 64 patients enrolled in this study, 33 were assigned to the GAC group and 31 received GAP. A singl...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： King DR,Browne AF,Birken GA,Hilty MD,Kerzner B,Boles ET Jr

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The psychological development of females with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) has been previously studied by Money, et al, who found that psychological development of sex identity was consistent with sex assignment despite virilizing adrenal hormones and abnormal external genitalia requiring surgical correction. ...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Hurtig AL,Radhakrishnan J,Reyes HM,Rosenthal IM

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonates with congenital diaphragmatic hernias (CDH) often die because of pulmonary hypoplasia and high pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR). Pulmonary hypertension and right-to-left shunting precedes progressive hypoxia and death. PVR is increased by acidosis and by high airway pressures. High-frequency oscillation (H...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Karl SR,Ballantine TV,Snider MT

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two children with congenital microgastria and associated anomalies requiring surgery as infants, developed severe dumping syndrome which necessitated a remedial operation. A Roux-en-Y jejunal pouch (Hunt-Lawrence) was formed at 22 months and 10 months respectively. Weight gain was immediate in both patients and has be...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Anderson KD,Guzzetta PC

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emergency pneumonostomy was curative in a critically ill child with acute lung abscess. This procedure may be indicated for the rare acute lung abscess which fails to respond to medical therapy. ...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Lacey SR,Kosloske AM

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In eight cases of congenital dilatation of the bile duct encountered in our institution during the past 3 years, jejunal interposition hepaticoduodenostomy was performed following resection of the involved bile duct. This procedure has no serious technical difficulties but appears to have some advantages over conventi...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Okada A,Ohguchi Y,Kamata S,Ikeda Y,Kawashima Y

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myasthenia gravis is rare in childhood. In the last 12 years, we have treated eight children under 16 years of age for this disease. There were six girls and two boys, a ratio of 3:1. Age of presentation of symptoms ranged from 10 to 16 years (mean 11 3/4). There was no significant family history and there were no sig...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Youssef S

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New techniques of 2-D sonography and radionucleotide Disofenin scanning allowed noninvasive evaluation of thoracoomphalopagus Siamese twins and successful separation at four days of age. Twin girls joined at the lower sternum and upper abdomen and weighing 15 lbs, were transferred at five hours of age after caesarian-...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Miller D,Colombani P,Buck JR,Dudgeon DL,Haller JA Jr

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaginal reflux during voiding cystourethrography (VCUG) is a common finding in young females. Reflux of urine into the uterus, fallopian tubes, and peritoneal cavity documented by contrast studies is rare and considered abnormal. Chronic retrograde flow of urine and its contaminants through an incompetent cervical os ...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Feins NR,O'Connor JF,Cranley WR,Lee R

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic alkalosis is regarded as the "classical" electrolyte abnormality occurring with hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (HPS) but recent experience suggests that atypical electrolyte findings frequently occur and delay establishing the correct diagnosis. The records of 65 infants with HPS treated by pyloromyotomy duri...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Touloukian RJ,Higgins E

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the fetus with congenital hydrocephalus, obstruction to the flow of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) results in ventricular dilation and neurologic impairment. Decompression of the obstructed ventricles before birth may ameliorate the damage and allow normal development to proceed. Although appealing, this pathophysiologi...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Nakayama DK,Harrison MR,Berger MS,Chinn DH,Halks-Miller M,Edwards MS

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective review of the treatment of Wilms' tumor from 1967 to 1977 at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, was undertaken, allowing a minimum 2-yr followup. Fifty-four (77%) of the 70 patients in the study are alive, with 23/25 (92%) in Stage I, 12/16 (75%) in Stage II, 12/19 (63%) in Stage III, and 7/9 (7...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Hutson JM,Kent M,Ekert H,Waters KD

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastric teratoma is a rare, benign tumor. The 47th case, reported here, is the first in which an abdominothoracic localization has been found. ...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Esposito G,Cigliano B,Paludetto R

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Only three primary peritoneal mesotheliomas in children have been previously reported. We describe a 6-wk-old girl with a papillary peritoneal mesothelioma of low grade malignancy. This is probably a congenital mesothelioma and is the youngest patient reported to date. ...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Silberstein MJ,Lewis JE,Blair JD,Graviss ER,Brodeur AE

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two children are presented with bilateral choanal atresia: a girl with the typical features of the Treacher Collins syndrome, and a boy, a third cousin of the girl, without mandibulo-facial dysostosis. Simultaneous occurrence of choanal atresia and the Treacher Collins syndrome may be based on a defective ossification...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Moorman-Voestermans K,Vos A

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The embryological development of the hepatobiliary bud presupposes that biliary and duodenal malformations are often associated. On the other hand, the association of biliary atresia with more distal small bowel malformations, possibly due to a vascular accident, seems to be fortuitous. We herewith report such a case ...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Le Coultre C,Fête R,Cuendet A,Berclaz JP

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of 108 patients with posterior urethral valves from 7 pediatric surgical centers has been reviewed. All the patients have been treated in the 10 year period since 1970. 53 were under 3 mo of age at presentation (Group I), 8 between 3 mo and 1 yr (Group II), 22 between 1 and 5 yr (Group III), and 25 over...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Atwell JD

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diarrhea is an expected problem following Martin's operation. Its cause is obvious. With medical management, the phase of intolerance to enteral feeding can be bridged. Adaptation is usually reached within 3-6 mo of surgery. This is confirmed by our experience with five patients treated in this manner. In two further ...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Davies MR,Cywes S

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital stenosis involving the entire length of the trachea has generally been regarded as a fatal disease. Tracheoplasty using costal cartilage grafts to enlarge the lumen was successfully employed in such a case, and the technique is described. A 12-mo-old female was referred with recurrent severe respiratory dis...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Kimura K,Mukohara N,Tsugawa C,Matsumoto Y,Sugimura C,Murata H,Itoh H

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surgical experience with 9 patients with chronic pancreatitis is reviewed. Vague, atypical abdominal pain and obstructive jaundice were the most common form of presentation. Serum amylase was elevated in less than half the patients. Ultrasound, ERCP, and operative cholangiopancreatography were the most helpful studies...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： O'Neill JA Jr,Greene H,Grishan FK

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endodermal sinus tumors occur in the gonads and in a variety of extragonadal locations, particularly as the malignant component of sacral teratomas. Light and electron microscopic studies as well as the presence of alpha fetoprotein support the concept that these lesions arise from germ cells that migrate from the ext...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Olsen MM,Raffensperger JG,Gonzalez-Crussi F,Luck SR,Kaplan WE,Morgan ER

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic (cirrhosis) accounts for a higher percentage of portal hypertension than extrahepatic portal vein obstruction. Some patients with extrahepatic portal hypertension (portal vein obstruction) have a more favorable clinical status. Nonoperative management (balloon tamponade, vasopressin) will usually succeed in co...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Altman RP,Krug J

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an experimental study, 18 dogs underwent total colectomy, mucosal proctectomy, and endorectal ileal pullthrough with ileoanal anastomosis. In 6 dogs, no internal reservoir was constructed (NR). In 6 additional dogs, an S-shaped ileal reservoir (SR) was constructed immediately above the peritoneal reflection. In 6 o...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Kojima Y,Sanada Y,Fonkalsrud EW

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plan for cervical lymph node biopsy should include special maneuvers for recognition of patients with lymphadenitis due to atypical mycobacteria, since these children need extensive operations. The diagnosis should be suspected in children less than 3 yr old with lymphadenopathy present for several months and no e...

journal_title：Journal of pediatric surgery

authors： Harris BH,Webb HW,Wilkinson AH Jr,Santelices AA

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00