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A Couture

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PubMed1985

[Enterolithiasis and digestive duplication. Apropos of a pediatric case].

This is the case report of a 13 years old white young girl in whom numerous moving abdominal calcifications are discovered during investigation for chronic anemia. Because of the existence of a severe vascular malformation of the face, a digestive arteriography is performed with no evidence of a calcified angiomatosis of the intestine tract. Preoperative diagnosis was intestinal duplication with enterolithiasis. Exploratory laparotomy confirmed that it was a huge communicating ileal duplication with numerous intestinal calculi and alimentary fragments. Surgical excision was easy and post-operative course, uneventful. This is a standard association but never reported in the pediatric literature. The authors stress on the different diagnosis of calcifications encountered in abdominal X rays in children and on chronic intestinal stasis which is the main factor in enteroliths formation.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1981

[Ultrasonography of an aneurysm of the great vein of Galien (author's transl)].

In a 15 day-old infant who presented with heart failure on the 4th day of life, the discovery of a continuous murmur at the level of the cranium led to suspicion of an aneurysm of the vein of Galien. Chest and neck profile X-rays showed an enlargement of the great vessels at the base of the heart and a thickening of the retropharyngeal soft tissues. Cerebral echotomography through the fontanelle showed an anechoic round area located in the posterior part of thalamus. Cerebral angiography confirmed the diagnosis.

Angiography↗
PubMed1981

[Ultrasonography before surgical operation of retroperitoneal malignant tumors in childhood (author's transl)].

Abdominal tumors in childhood are diagnosed almost always by palpation only, the retroperitoneal localization of these are confirmed by I.V.P. The new gray scale ultrasound machine seem to be very useful in the staging of the masses before the surgical operation. For the correct appreciation of the sensibility of gray-scale ultrasound, 6 Wilm's tumors, 6 neuroblastoma and 1 malignant retroperitoneal fibroma were reviewed. These children were echographied just before the surgical procedure and the surgeon's reports were compared with ultrasonics findings. If the sensibility is good to give measurement of the masse and to establish the situation of the tumor toward the midline of the abdominal cavity, the visualisation of the great vessels was not so obvious. However these hepatic structures were well established in all cases. The renal vein was never seen. At the end of this report it's possible to describe differential echographic findings between Wilm's tumor and neuroblastoma. --A Wilm's tumor is a mass well limited in periphery, confused with the kidney and with a frequent sonolucent rim sign. --A Neuroblastoma is a very irregular tumor well separated of the kidney without sonolucent area in its limit. U.S. made after an I.V.P. is in all cases very useful to surgeons. The two methods with their additional findings make almost always arteriography without interest.

Adolescent↗