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Beatrice Randi
English
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Functional Anatomy of the Pelvic Floor and the Anorectum
The pelvic floor and the anorectum are crucial in maintaining continence, facilitating evacuation, and providing pelvic organ support while in females the pelvic floor is part of the birth canal.
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Hepatic Tumours
Liver tumours account for only 5% of all tumours in prenatal and neonatal period [1]. They include a variety of benign and malignant neoplasms with a different distribution than in older children (Table 37.1)....
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Neuroblastoma in Neonates
In neonatal period, tumours, although very rare, represent an important cause of morbidity and mortality. The prevalence of neoplasms, within the first month after birth, occurs once in every 12,500–27,500 liv...
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Wilms Tumor in Neonates
Wilms tumor (WT) or nephroblastoma is the second commonest neonatal renal tumor accounting for 20% of cases and represents the most important renal malignancy during childhood. This neoplasm develops from the ...
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Mediastinitis
Acute mediastinitis occurs as a result of contamination of the mediastinum secondary to perforation of the esophagus or trachea. Rarely, mediastinitis can develop from descending retropharyngeal or cervical ab...
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Vaginal malformations: a proposed classification based on embryological, anatomical and clinical criteria and their surgical management (an analysis of 167 cases)
Although it is virtually impossible to formulate a scheme that can satisfactorily collect all different types of vaginal malformations, a simple classification would be of a considerable value and would permit...
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One-trocar-assisted nephrectomy (OTAN): initial experience and codification of a technique
Laparoscopic nephrectomy in children has gradually become a reasonable alternative to open nephrectomy and, besides, a retroperitoneal approach seems more logical than transperitoneal approach to perform nephr...
