Pediatric thyroid cancer [0.03%]
儿童甲状腺癌
Diana L Diesen,Michael A Skinner
Diana L Diesen
Thyroid cancer is an uncommon childhood malignancy that presents primarily in young children or adolescent females and may be related to radiation exposure or genetic predisposition. Gene alterations, such as RET mutation or RET/PTC rearran...
Katherine A Janeway,Christopher B Weldon
Katherine A Janeway
Pediatric gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) is a rare entity that can be quite different from its adult counterpart. This report provides a comprehensive review on the diagnosis and management of this tumor in children and adolescents, ...
Dietrich von Schweinitz
Dietrich von Schweinitz
Hepatoblastoma is the most common liver tumor of early childhood. According to recent studies its incidence seems to be increasing in North America and Europe. Since new histological variants have been described recently the formerly clear-...
Thomas E Hamilton,Robert C Shamberger
Thomas E Hamilton
Wilms tumor is the most common renal malignancy that occurs in childhood. The remarkable evolution of treatment for this malignancy has served as a paradigm for multimodal cancer treatment. A rich database has accrued over time from well-co...
Neuroblastoma [0.03%]
神经母细胞瘤
Andrew M Davidoff
Andrew M Davidoff
Neuroblastoma is a heterogeneous disease; tumors can spontaneously regress or mature, or display an aggressive, therapy-resistant phenotype. Increasing evidence indicates that the biological and molecular features of neuroblastoma significa...
Robert C Shamberger
Robert C Shamberger
The necessity for prospective evidence for single-site umbilical laparoscopic surgery [0.03%]
单孔腹腔镜手术的前瞻性证据之必要性
Shawn D St Peter,Daniel J Ostlie
Shawn D St Peter
During the past 10 years, the minimally invasive technique has become the standard approach for many thoracic, abdominal, and pelvic procedures in adults and children. We now know there are well-defined benefits to this approach. However, w...
Benjamin E Padilla,Guillermo Dominguez,Carolina Millan et al.
Benjamin E Padilla et al.
Single-site umbilical incision laparoscopic surgery (SSULS) is increasingly being used to treat a variety of childhood surgical diseases. Existing SSULS approaches have inefficient triangulation and poor ergonomics. In an effort to overcome...
Shawn D St Peter
Shawn D St Peter
The single-site umbilical laparoscopic approach to abdominal surgery has become an evolving trend over the past few years. These operations have some technical limitations attributable to the loss of instrument triangulation, crowding of in...
Matias Bruzoni,Sanjeev Dutta
Matias Bruzoni
Laparoscopic splenectomy was first described in children in 1993. Since then, it has become a commonly performed procedure in children because of reduced discomfort and hospitalization and significantly improved cosmesis compared with the o...