Biomedical subjects

A Boianov

Publications and source records attributed to A Boianov.

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PubMed1990

[Retroperitoneal and pelvic-presacral teratogenic tumors in early childhood--the diagnostic and surgical treatment problems].

Teratogenic tumors are characteristic for childhood. For a period of 15 years the authors have observed 12 children with retroperitoneal and pelvic-presacral localization of teratogenic tumors. They were most common in girls under one year of age. The clinical symptoms, the methods applied for diagnosis are analysed; the diagnostic importance of rectal digital examination, inferior venacavography and especially of computer tomography is emphasized. Radical removal of the tumor was performed in 11 children and biopsy in 1. The most convenient operative access to pelvic-presacral-retroperitoneal tumors is a one-step double access (abdomino-sacrococcygeal). As a result of complex treatment--surgical and chemotherapy--the postoperative results were good in 9 children.

Antineoplastic Agents↗

PubMed1990

[Postoperative invagination in early childhood].

Postoperative intussusception is a rare but serious complication which occurs usually during the early postoperative period with intermittent, but progressing intestinal obstruction with characteristic appearance of mucus-bloody stools. Two children with postoperative intussusception have been observed among 381 children who have had abdominal operations during the last three years (1985-1987) (0.5 per cent). Various postoperative complications developed in 45 children (11.8 per cent), in 2 of them (4.4 per cent) the complication being intussusception. Both children were operated for tumors. In one (1 1/2 years old) the postoperative intussusception was not diagnosed until it was re-operated; the child died. In the second child (3 months old) the postoperative intussusception was diagnosed by clinical and X-ray examination; the ileocolic portion of the intussusception was reduced by pneumocoloscopy, while the ileo-ileal required re-operation with manual reduction. The infant survived. Early diagnosis of this rare postoperative complication, especially when mucus-bloody stools appear and pneumocoloscopy is performed, is feasible. Appropriate treatment will help for a favourable outcome.

Child, Preschool↗

PubMed1979