Physical and psychological outc ...
Purpose Few studies have assessed physical and psychological status in long-term survivors of childhood solid tumors in Japan. For children with suc ...
Thymectomy for inducing remissi ...
Purpose The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy of thymectomy to induce remission in juvenile myasthenia gravis. Methods A retrospectiv ...
A role for Pten in paediatric i ...
Purpose The enteric nervous system (ENS) is a network of neurons and glia that lies within the gut wall. It is responsible for the normal regulation ...
Surgical treatment of chronic i ...
Surgery for chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is increasingly often necessary in children. This study aimed at assessing the results of these ...
How valuable is ductal plate ma ...
Purpose We assessed ductal plate malformation (DPM) as a prognostic factor for mid-/long-term outcome in posthepatoportoenterostomy (HPE) biliary at ...
Abnormal development of the ent ...
Background/Aim Esophageal dilatation, gastroesophageal reflux, and intestinal obstruction have been demonstrated in CDH survivors. Abnormal esophage ...
Prenatal treatment with retinoi ...
Purpose Prenatal treatment with retinoic acid (RA) has been reported to stimulate alveologenesis in hypoplastic lungs (HL) in the nitrofen model of ...
Is it necessary to ligate dista ...
Purpose After excision of choledochal cysts (CDC), the distal common bile duct (CBD) stumps are conventionally ligated. Yet, the distal common bile ...
Slow-transit constipation with ...
Purpose Transcutaneous electrical stimulation (TES) speeds up colonic transit in children with slow-transit constipation (STC). This study examined ...
Does the length of the history ...
Purpose Intussusception is the most common cause of acute abdomen in infants and preschool children. Nonoperative reduction using air enema is an es ...
Neonatal functional intestinal ...
Purpose We report our experience of managing eight babies who presented with neonatal intestinal obstruction and whose rectal biopsies showed severe ...
Inhibitory effect of drug-free ...
Purpose Hybrid liposomes composed of vesicular and micellar molecules have been used as drug-delivery systems. It has become clear that hybrid lipos ...
The Skt gene, required for anor ...
Background and aims It has been reported that a dorsal cloacal plate defect is associated with anorectal malformations (ARMs); however, there has be ...
Expression of the Wilm’s tumor ...
Purpose The nitrofen model of congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) reproduces a typical diaphragmatic defect. However, the exact pathomechanism of ...
Reliability of the lung to thor ...
Purpose An accurate prenatal assessment of the patients’ severity is essential for the optimal treatment of individuals with congenital diaphragmati ...
Perforation: a rare complicatio ...
Purpose Spontaneous perforation is a rare complication of choledochal cyst (CDC) which is difficult to diagnose due to its nonspecific clinical pres ...
Gender differences in reduced s ...
Purpose Adult slow-transit constipation (STC) occurs predominantly in females and is associated with low numbers of substance P (SP)-containing nerv ...
Primary gastric pull-up in pure ...
Aim To perform a definitive procedure in pure esophageal atresia by gastric pull-up in the newborn. Patients/methods A primary gastric pull-up was p ...
Histochemical staining for inte ...
Purpose Intestinal dysganglionosis are a group of anomalies of the enteric nervous system that constitute infrequent but severe forms of constipatio ...
The Japanese experience with pr ...
Purpose To review the recent Japanese experience with prenatally diagnosed congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) based on a multi-institutional surv ...
Pediatric patients receiving AB ...
Background ABO-incompatible liver transplantation (LTx) is becoming more common in response to the paucity of liver allografts. Several studies have ...
Protective mechanism of glutami ...
Background Glutamine prevents the intestinal mucosal injury induced by chemotherapy. However, the mechanism has not yet been elucidated. Proliferati ...
Indications for thoracoscopic r ...
Purpose We reviewed 26 consecutive cases of congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) prospectively to establish selection criteria for successful thora ...
The role of primary myogenic re ...
Purpose The nitrofen model of congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is widely used to investigate the pathogenesis of CDH. However, the exact pathom ...
Hirschsprung’s disease: what ab ...
Purpose Although significantly decreased during last decades, mortality rate for Hirschsprung’s disease still ranges between 1 and 10%. The authors ...