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Conservative therapy for splenic injuries is widely advocated. The advantages of conservative therapy for splenic injuries include the preservation of splenic immune function, prevention of overwhelming post-splenectomy sepsis, and avoidance of laparotomy and its associated early and late complications. Pseudoaneurysms of the splenic artery branch are encountered because of the prevalence of conservative management and widespread use of imaging techniques in the follow-up of these cases. We report two cases of post-traumatic splenic pseudoaneurysm in children which thrombosed spontaneously, one during the diagnostic angiogram examination and another on follow-up studies.

The combination of carboplatin, etoposide, and high-dose methotrexate is highly active in pediatric patients with CNS embryonal tumors.

Imaging-guided catheter drainage of fluid collections in children is safe and effective. Newer approaches, better imaging, and improved techniques have resulted in improved cure rates. The basic principles, common indications, various techniques, and the possible complications of these procedures, with special reference to the pediatric population, are reviewed in this article.

The aim of this study was to examine the role of HA flow abnormalities in the development of biliary strictures following split liver transplants. Data was obtained from a prospective data base of all patients undergoing split liver transplants from 2000-2008 with a follow up time of at least six months. Forty-six transplants were performed in 44 patients. Fourteen of 46 developed strictures of whom four were intrahepatic and 10 anastomotic. Nine of 14 with strictures had either hepatic artery thromobosis (HAT, four) or abnormalities of HA flow identified by routine Doppler ultrasound (5) compared with two of 32 without strictures (p < 0.02, (one temporary loss of flow and one HA aneurysm). There were no differences between the stricture and non stricture group with regard to age or weight at transplant, donor age, cold and warm ischemia times or intraoperative portal vein flow though there was a significant decrease in intraoperative HA flow in the stricture group. In conclusion, both HAT and hepatic artery flow abnormalities are associated with biliary strictures in the majority of split liver transplants. However, unrecognised abnormalities in HA flow and or other factors are likely to contribute.