Pediatric soft tissue sarcomas of the oral/maxillofacial region are rare neoplasms that present significant difficulty with respect to treatment and local control measures. We report four cases of pediatric oral/maxillofacial soft tissue sarcomas from our tertiary care pediatric hospital and emphasize the rarity of these malignancies and the challenges encountered in treating these lesions, and...

Chronic abdominal pain is a common pediatric problem, affecting 7 to 25% of youth (1–3) and accounting for 2 to 4% of pediatric office visits (4). The overwhelming majority of affected children suffer from a functional gastrointestinal disorder (FGID) in that explanatory physical disease in the form of demonstrable structural or biochemical abnormalities is absent (5). Symptom based diagnostic ...

Abdominal Non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL) are the most common extra nodal presentation of pediatric NHL. Our aim is to assess the role of surgery as a risk factor and to evaluate the impact of risk-adjusted systemic chemotherapy on survival of patients with stages II and III disease. This study included 35 pediatric patients with abdominal NHL treated over five years at South Egypt Cancer Institute...

The aim of this study was to present preliminary experience with FDG PET/CT in pediatric oncology patients in National PET Center, Clinical Center of Serbia and to asses its impact on management of malignancies in children. 33 FDG PET/CT scans were performed on 30 pediatric patients. PET/CT imaging was performed for staging the disease, assessing therapy efficacy and diagnosing recurrent or met...

BACKGROUND The use and indications for laparoscopy have been increasing. As part of this trend, a new algorithm may emerge for pediatric trauma in which laparoscopic techniques are used in hemodynamically stable patients with suspected hollow viscus perforation. CASE REPORT We present a case in which laparoscopy was successfully used in a pediatric trauma patient as a diagnostic and therapeut...

Pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis (PCI) is known to be a relatively rare condition which is characterized by gas cysts in the gastrointestinal mucosa. We treated four cases of PCI accompanied by hematological malignancies during chemotherapy treatment. All cases suffered from abdominal discomfort. Abdominal X-ray films revealed gas cysts in the intestine. PCI was observed during leukocytopenic...

Collagenous gastritis is a rarely diagnosed disorder in pediatrics. The pediatric onset type typically presents with abdominal pain and anemia and the adult onset type with diarrhea. We present 2 new cases of collagenous gastritis. The first case presented with abdominal pain but no anemia. The second case presented with diarrhea as seen in the adult onset form and found to have celiac disease....

the hypertension is divided into two types: primary and secondary. the secondary type, is particularly due to renal and arterial origin and is mostly seen. in children the secondary hypertension caused by malignancies is rare. this is a case of abdominal rhabdomyosarcoma with malignant hypertension.

intussusception is a common pediatric surgical emergency, but rarely seen postoperatively as a cause of obstruction. this complication occurs after abdominal, thoracic, orthopaedic and urologic operations. ileus and obstruction due to adhesion band are the common causes of postoperative obstruction, however, although intussusception is less frequent but can be serious. we have to consider this ...