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Open AccessConflicting views of physicians and surgeons concerning pediatric urinary tract infection: a comparative review
A first febrile urinary tract infection (UTI) is a common condition in children, and pathways of management have evolved over time.
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Reply to Verma Y
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Diagnostic yield and safety of ultrasound-guided percutaneous testicular biopsies in children
Traditionally, testicular biopsy is performed using an open surgical approach. Ultrasound-guided percutaneous biopsy is a less invasive alternative and can be performed in children.
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Core needle biopsy and embolization of fat-poor renal tumors in children with tuberous sclerosis complex
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Open AccessPresentation, treatment, and outcome of renovascular hypertension below 2 years of age
Renovascular hypertension in most cases requires endovascular treatment and/or surgery. This is technically much more difficult in small children and there is very limited published knowledge in this age group...
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Long-term outcomes following failure of Nissen fundoplication
To determine the management and outcomes of patients with gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR) that requires further intervention following failure of Nissen fundoplication (NF).
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Pediatric interventional radiology — does it add value?
Although attempts have been made to show that pediatric interventional radiology adds value in children’s hospitals, none has been particularly persuasive. An analysis of individual procedures would seem to be...
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Open AccessPancreatic pseudocyst drainage in children by image-guided cystogastrostomy and stent insertion
Endoscopic ultrasound is seldom available at paediatric centres; therefore drainage of pancreatic pseudocysts in children has traditionally been achieved by surgery.
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Open AccessDiagnostic yield and safety of ultrasound-guided bowel mass biopsies in children
Traditionally, ultrasound (US)-guided bowel mass biopsies are avoided in favour of endoscopic or surgical biopsies. However, endoscopy cannot easily reach lesions between the duodenojejunal flexure and the ter...
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Interventional Radiology in Pediatric Oncology
Interventional oncology is the image-guided treatment of tumors. Procedures applicable in children with cancer include percutaneous ablation and transarterial therapy and are almost always performed under gene...
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Another point of view on 2017 PRETEXT: reply to Pariente et al.
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Open AccessSurgical jejunostomy and radiological gastro-jejunostomy tube feeding in children: risks, benefits and nutritional outcomes
Radiologically inserted gastrojejunal tubes (RGJ) and surgical jejunostomy (SJ) are established modes of jejunal feeding. The aim of the study is to review nutritional outcomes, complications and the practical...
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2017 PRETEXT: radiologic staging system for primary hepatic malignancies of childhood revised for the Paediatric Hepatic International Tumour Trial (PHITT)
Imaging is crucial in the assessment of children with a primary hepatic malignancy. Since its inception in 1992, the PRETEXT (PRE-Treatment EXTent of tumor) system has become the primary method of risk stratif...
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Role of interventional radiology in managing pediatric liver tumors
Hepatoblastoma and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are the most common pediatric liver malignancies, with hepatoblastoma occurring more commonly in younger children and HCC occurring more commonly in older chil...
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Role of interventional radiology in managing pediatric liver tumors
Primary liver malignancies are rare in children. Hepatoblastoma and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) together represent the overwhelming majority of cases. Overall survival of hepatoblastoma approaches 80% with ...
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Erratum to: Yolk sac tumour: a rare cause of raised serum alpha-foetoprotein in a young child with a large liver mass
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Pediatric interventional radiology workforce survey: 10-year follow-up
Pediatric interventional radiology is a distinct subspecialty differing from both pediatric diagnostic radiology and adult interventional radiology. We conducted a workforce survey in 2005 to evaluate the stat...
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Non-invasive imaging cannot replace formal angiography in the diagnosis of renovascular hypertension
Renovascular disease (RVD) is found in about 10 % of secondary childhood hypertension. Digital subtraction angiography (DSA) is the gold standard to diagnose RVD. Non-invasive imaging methods like Doppler ultr...
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Open AccessMRI of paediatric liver tumours: How we review and report
Liver tumours are fortunately rare in children. Benign tumours such as haemangiomas and cystic mesenchymal hamartomas are typically seen in infancy, often before 6 months of age. After that age, malignant hepa...
