Intestinal Obstruction. I. Causes and Management in Infants and Children*

Rarity of Surgical Complications After Postchemotherapy Nephrectomy for Nephroblastoma. Experience of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology - Trial and Study "SIOP-9"

“…Practically there were Eur J Pediatr Surg 8 (7998) 2 kinds of more common nephreetomy-related complications: SBO and intraoperative tumour rupture. It is known from the literature and general surgical experience that the small-bowel occlusion rate in children, after clifferent laparotomies, ranges from 5 % to 12 % and happens usually within the first two postoperative years (2,6,14). In the very interesting report by Ritchey et al from NWTS-3 the SBO rate in primarily nephrectomized Wilms' twnour patients is 6.9 % (9).…”

Bowel Obstruction after Treatment of Intra-Abdominal Tumors

“…There are currently no other studies that compare the size of resected specimens with the risk of subsequent SBO. The rates of SBO in the remaining patients were all within the predicted range when we analyzed the entire group of patients with each diagnosis [1,5,6,13] . When only those patients who underwent a cancer-directed abdominal operation were considered, the incidence of SBO was higher in patients with rhabdomyosarcoma and Burkitt ' s lymphoma.…”

Cecal Volvulus following a Right Nephrectomy for Wilms' Tumor: Should We Need to Close the Lateral Peritoneum?

“…Large bowel volvulus is a rare cause of bowel obstruction occurring mainly in pediatric patients, with the cecum being the most common location in some series and it represents less than 1% of all intestinal obstructions in children. 4 5 6 7 Although postoperative cecal volvulus following a nephrectomy in adult patients 5 8 9 10 have been described previously, to our knowledge, there are no reported cases of a cecal volvulus following a nephrectomy in children and more specifically after a WT resection.…”