background and objective: germ cell tumor (gct) accounts for approximately 2-3% of all malignancies in children. in this respect, about 20% of patients with gct are still resistant to therapy. materials and methods: the cross-sectional strategy of this survey was undertaken on 57 patients with germ cell tumor who admitted to ali asghar children hospital during the years 1990- 2003. in this stud...

Background and Aim: Ventriculoperitoneal shunt (VPS) is the most commonly used procedure for treatment of hydrocephalus in children. Abdominal cerebrospinal fluid pseudocyst is a rare complication but potentially fatal. The pathogenesis of this complication remains unclear. This complication should be considered during differential diagnosis of an abdominal mass. Our aim is to report how large ...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the role of fine needle aspiration cytology in the diagnosis of abdominal and retroperitoneal masses in children on this study. in 53 cases of childhood abdominal and retroperitoneal masses within a 4 year period (1998- 2001) preoperative fine needle aspiration was done under the guide of ct scan. 2 pathologists reviewed fine needle aspiration smears. in al...

Abdominal pain remains a common problem in childhood and often results in admission to hospital. Of these children, however, only 30-40% will require surgical intervention. 3 Most are discharged with a diagnosis of non-specific abdominal pain. To elucidate whether non-specific abdominal pain is more common during the school term compared with the school holiday we investigated the admission rat...

human hydatid cyst is a wide spread disease. it is an endemic disease in iran. hydatid cyst is extremely rare in the female reproductive organs. this is a case report of ovarian hydatid cyst in a 42-year-old woman. she presented with feeling of enlargement of abdomen and abdominal pain. on physical examination, a large mass in lower abdomen palpated. ultrasonography reported a heterogeneous mul...

The present case report documents a paraneoplastic immune-mediated haemolytic anaemia secondary to gastrointestinal stromal tumour of the caecum in female neutered cocker spaniel. dog was presented with history acute onset lethargy and anorexia. Investigations revealed mildly regenerative, Coombs’ test-positive spherocytosis auto-agglutination. Abdominal ultrasonography documented concurrent fo...

objective: to consider incisional endometrioma (ie) as a differential diagnosis of abdominal disorders and to recommend different treatments as preventive measures. incisional endometrioma (ie), as a rare condition, usually develops in surgical scar of cesarean section or hysterectomy. materials and methods: we performed a retrospective review of 12 cases at department of surgery, shahrekord un...

Objective: Surgical stress stimulates the release of catecholamine and cortisol. Both of which have anti-insulin action resulting in an increase of plasma glucose concentration. The most common regional block in pediatric age group is caudal epidural analgesia. The aim of this study was to compare the stress response following pre and post surgical caudal block. Methodology: After approval by o...

BACKGROUND Anterior abdominal wall fibroid are uncommon and could be a cause of pain and discomfort. Very few cases have been reported in the literature but none in our region. CASE PRESENTATION We present an uncommon case of a 31 year old para 2+2 trader from the Itsekiri tribe of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria who presented with a one year history of a periumbilcal mass, had surgical rem...

Nephroblastoma is one of the most common causes of abdominal-pelvic mass in children. It still raises a diagnostic problem because of the wide variety of causes of abdominal-pelvic mass but also because of the delays in consultation in sub-Saharan black Africa and consequently the discovery of the mass at a very late and sometimes metastatic stage. Yet nephroblastoma is a very chemo-sensitive m...