October 2024
In recent decades, with an increasing number of women pursuing medical career, there is a striking contrast of women taking-up surgical specialties. Though, surgery is traditionally a macho field, the...
A young lady postgraduate of the Department of Pulmonology at the Radha Gobinda Kar Medical College Hospital (Kolkata, India) had to sacrifice her life in the most gory and brutal way(1) to wake an en...
Myiasis (myasis) is a parasitic infestation of fly (diptera) larvae. Maggots are both a pest and a therapeutic agent. Ayurvedic surgeons of ancient India (2000-600 BCE) have described Krimi-Karna (aur...
Buried penis is a rare congenital anomaly due to dysplasia of the dartos fascia and lack of penile skin fixation to the Buck’s fascia. This report describes an experience with 8 boys with buried penis...
Chemotherapy of Wilms tumor (WT) often induces neutropenia. This study explores whether enteral hyperalimentation can reduce the incidence of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia and the need for granuloc...
Thyroid disorders represent a significant proportion of pediatric endocrine problems. Surgical intervention is often indicated in thyroid cancers, hyperthyroidism and solitary non-toxic nodules.
Proper urodynamic evaluation of children is often limited by the cost, technical expertise and availability of the involved equipments. Bedside cystometry (BC) could be a useful alternative in the abs...
Conservative management of omphalocele is an accessible method in resource-constrained settings. This review summarizes the literature on the usage of escharotic agents in omphalocele.
‘Pediatric Thoracic Surgery’, edited by Mattioli, Petralia and Torre, is written by surgeons working at Giannia Gaslini Institute, Genoa. This book emphasizes that thoracic surgery in children ought t...
Sigmoid volvulus is a rare cause of colonic obstruction in children. In this age group it has higher morbidity and mortality than that of adults. There is a paucity of literature on pediatric sigmoid ...
A15-year-old boy presented with recurrent episodes of non-bilious vomiting for the past 9 years. During these episodes he also had dehydration and oliguria. He required hospitalization during each epi...
Pancreatic heterotopia (PH) is a rare congenital anomaly that is also known as ectopic pancreas or pancreatic choristoma. It is usually asymptomatic but rarely may cause abdominal pain, lower gastroin...
We report 2 cases of stray bullet injury to brain in children of age 3 months and 7 years respectively. One of them had an occipital penetrating wound (with no exit) and the other had trans-temporal w...
