Soft tissue sarcomas are a heterogenous group of rare tumors arising from embryonic mesoderm. Almost 15% of such sarcomas arise in the retroperitoneum. Rhabdomyosarcoma and fibrosarcoma are the two most common histologic variants in the retroperitoneum. The prognosis for patients with retroperitoneal sarcomas (RPS) is relatively poor characterized by late locoregional recurrence as principal ca...

Since the introduction of robotic surgery in children in 2001, it has been employed by select pediatric laparoscopic surgeons, but not to the degree of adult surgical specialists. It has been suggested that the technical capabilities of the robot may be ideal for complex pediatric surgical cases that require intricate dissection. However, due to the size constraints of the robot for small pedia...

Hybrid stage I palliation combines cardiothoracic surgery and interventional transcatheter procedures for treatment of hypoplastic left heart syndrome. The approach is an alternative to the Norwood procedure, the traditional first stage of surgical palliation. Hybrid stage I palliation involves placing bilateral branch pulmonary artery bands and a patent ductus arteriosus stent through a median...

PURPOSE To analyze the results in a series of children submitted to unilateral cataract surgery. METHODS A retrospective study was conducted through the analysis of 35 patient files from the Congenital Cataract Service of UNIFESP/EPM. RESULTS The main cause of unilateral cataract was idiopathic, the second cause was ocular trauma and the third cause was congenital rubella. Initial visual ac...

Results: Older patient age at the time of transplant was a significant factor favorably affecting patient survival (P .031). Trends toward better survival rates were observed in those transplants performed more recently (P .063), in those patients with greater body weight (P .084), in those not hospitalized at the time of transplant (P .14), and in those without concomitant liver failure (P .12...

To the Editor: I applaud Alió et al1 for providing a comprehensive and meticulous meta-analysis of peer-reviewed articles on pediatric laser refractive surgery, which appeared in the May 2011 issue of the Journal of Refractive Surgery. I appreciate this complex undertaking. The study adds knowledge to our understanding of laser refractive surgery on the treatment of high anisometropic ametropia...

Abstract
 Objective
 The pediatric age group is in the risk for Inadvertent perioperative hypothermia (IPH) due to insufficient subcutaneous adipose tissue and underdeveloped thermoregulatory responses.
 We aimed determine frequency of IPH undergoing laparoscopic surgery.
 Methods
 study prospective observational.
 Pediatric patients (1-18 years old) who underwent ...

The combination of hypothermia and potassium cardioplegic arrest has become the most common method of myocardial protection in the evolution of myocardial protection. This review focuses on myocardial protection in pediatric cardiac surgery. In the 1980s, blood was added to cardioplegia solution in order to supply the myocardium with oxygen, nutrients, and for buffering purposes. Similar myocar...