Journal of pediatric surgery
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The aim of this article was to assess whether and to what extent pulmonary function recovered to normal degree postoperatively and to investigate the changes in pulmonary function after surgical correction and the value of surgical correction. ⋯ Preoperative symptoms obviously improved after operation. There was little airway obstruction in the patients postoperatively. The patients with pectus excavatum should be operated on as soon as possible.
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Review Case Reports
Intrahepatic fetus-in-fetu: a case report and review of the literature.
The authors report the third case since 1964 of fetus-in-fetu presenting at Red Cross Children's Hospital. A fetal liver abnormality was detected during routine antenatal ultrasound scan, and the postnatal diagnosis of an intrahepatic, multiple fetus-in-fetu was made with abdominal ultrasound scan, plain radiograph of the abdomen and computed tomography. The mass was removed surgically by hemihepatectomy when the patient was 4 months of age. ⋯ Two of the 3 nodules within the amniotic-lined cavity of the intrahepatic mass individually comply with the accepted criteria for fetus-in-fetu, and the third nodule has the accepted features of a benign teratoma. The existence of multiple fetus-in-fetu and fetus-in-fetu combined with a teratoma, is recorded in the medical literature. The imaging as well as the macroscopic and microscopic features are illustrated.