Over the last 15 years, various oncology groups throughout the world have used the
PRETEXT system for staging malignant primary liver tumours of childhood. This paper …

International collaborative efforts in hepatoblastoma have led to increased refinements in
the use of the PRETEXT and post-treatment extent to define prognosis and surgical …

Approaches to the management of portal hypertension and variceal hemorrhage in
pediatrics remain controversial, in large part because they are not well informed by rigorous …

Background Mortality after liver transplantation depends on heterogeneous recipient and
donor factors. Our aim was to assess risk of death and to develop models to help predict …

The recent introduction of the meso Rex bypass raises a possible paradigm shift in the
therapeutic approach to extra‐hepatic portal vein obstruction (EHPVO). Long‐term follow‐up …

Abstract Background The Operating Room (OR) is a key resource of all major hospitals, but
it also accounts for up 40% of resource costs. Improving cost effectiveness, while …

During the period from 1972 to 1992, 59 children received surgical treatment at the
University of Louvain Medical School for biopsy-proven Hirschsprung's disease (HD). The …

Background: Decompression of extrahepatic portal hypertension by directly bypassing the
thrombosed portal vein has never been reported in cases of children with idiopathic (or …

Biliary atresia is the most frequent cause of chronic cholestasis in infants. When left
untreated, this condition leads to death from liver insufficiency within the first 2 yr of life. The …

Liver cell transplantation was performed in a child with urea cycle disorder poorly
equilibrated by conventional therapy as a bridge to transplantation. A 14‐month‐old boy …