%0 Journal Article %J J Pediatr %D 2018 %T A Giant Ovarian Cyst in an Adolescent. %A Corrias, Francesca %A Pederiva, Federica %A Cozzi, Giorgio %A Ammar, Lydie %A Cattaruzzi, Elisabetta %A Lembo, Maria Antonietta %A Barbi, Egidio %K Child %K Cystadenoma, Serous %K Female %K Humans %K Ovarian Neoplasms %B J Pediatr %V 199 %P 279 %8 2018 08 %G eng %1 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29731358?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1016/j.jpeds.2018.03.015 %0 Journal Article %J Pediatr Med Chir %D 2017 %T Surgery for distal hypospadias: what about the catheter? %A Scarpa, Maria-Grazia %A Perin, Giordano %A Di Grazia, Massimo %A Codrich, Daniela %A Pederiva, Federica %A Guida, Edoardo %A Lembo, Maria Antonietta %A Giannotta, Antonio %A Schleef, Jurgen %K Child %K Child, Preschool %K Device Removal %K Humans %K Hypospadias %K Infant %K Length of Stay %K Male %K Retrospective Studies %K Stents %K Treatment Outcome %K Urinary Catheterization %X

No agreed recommendations exist for timing of urethral stent removal, after distal hypospadias surgery. We compared our preliminary case series with outcomes from literature: 18/44 patients were treated with catheter and 26/44 without it. The surgical outcome was comparable in the two groups. After hypospadias surgery, the main advantage of the immediate postoperative catheter removal was the shorter hospital stay without negatively affecting the care and home management.

%B Pediatr Med Chir %V 39 %P 145 %8 2017 Sep 28 %G eng %N 3 %1 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29034655?dopt=Abstract %R 10.4081/pmc.2017.145 %0 Journal Article %J Int J Surg Case Rep %D 2016 %T When a lymphatic malformation determines a bowel volvulus: Are clinical status and images always reliable? %A Guida, Edoardo %A Di Grazia, Massimo %A Cattaruzzi, Elisabetta %A Bussani, Rossana %A Rigamonti, Waifro %A Lembo, Maria Antonietta %X

INTRODUCTION: An acute abdomen in the form of small-bowel volvulus could be a presentation of a lymphatic malformation in childhood.

CASE PRESENTATION: A 5year old male was admitted to our Institute for an acute abdomen. Clinical aspects and radiological images were not specific for a certain diagnosis. Laparotomy revealed a big soft mass, with a milky content, completely involving about 50cm of ileus with a partial volvulus of the intestinal loop. A complete mass excision and also a bowel involved resection were performed. After a histological examination, a lymphatic malformation was diagnosed.

DISCUSSION: The diagnosis of a mesenteric lymphatic malformation could be intraoperative and a complete resection should be the treatment of choice. Sometimes it could be necessary to perform an involved bowel tract resection in the case of volvolus with ischemia.

CONCLUSIONS: Paediatricians and surgeons should bare in mind that an intrabdominal lymphatic malformation may present as a nonspecific an acute abdomen caused by a bowel volvolus and diagnosis may not be so simple preoperatively.

%B Int J Surg Case Rep %V 25 %P 192-5 %8 2016 %G eng %1 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27388707?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1016/j.ijscr.2016.06.030 %0 Journal Article %J Eur J Pediatr Surg %D 2012 %T Thoracoscopic removal of a bulky cystic mediastinal mature teratoma in a 4-year-old child: report of one case and few surgical tricks. %A Codrich, Daniela %A Lembo, Maria Antonietta %A Schleef, Jurgen %K Child, Preschool %K Female %K Humans %K Mediastinal Neoplasms %K Teratoma %K Thoracoscopy %K Tomography, X-Ray Computed %B Eur J Pediatr Surg %V 22 %P 318-20 %8 2012 Aug %G eng %N 4 %1 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22576302?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1055/s-0032-1308697