background: rhabdomyosarcoma (rms) is one of the common malignant tumors in infants and children, but it is extremely rare in the kidney. in this paper, we present a case of rms the kidney of a child. case presentation: a 6-month old girl presented with agitation, low fever and abdominal distention which started 5 days ago. on physical examination, the infant had a large and firm soft tissue ma...

In order to determine the prevalence rate of abdominal masses in children referred to the Kerman university hospital number one from 1984 to 1994, the medical records  of 51 of these children were reviewed.  27 of these patients were boys (53℅), and 24 were girls (47℅). The age variance of these patients were between 3 months and 14 years. In this study,  the most common tumor was Wilm,s tumor ...

omental cysts occur rarely. patients with omental cysts usually present with abdominal distention and a painless abdominal mass. in children it may present as an acute abdomen due to intestinal obstruction. the most common physical finding of an omental cyst is a freely movable abdominal mass, which should be considered in differential diagnosis of these cases. the diagnostic procedures include...

abdominal masses in neonatal period is one of the main causes of patients bed ridden in infantal surgery wards. the rapid encounterance with these patients has caused a decrease in mortality and morbidity. this study is a kind of historical research which has been conducted on data base management systems of two above mentioned hospitals between years 1361-1378. the final outcome was only 25 ca...

abstract fat necrosis secondary to pancreatitis can be either mild and self limited or create severe organ damage, but may rarely lead to abdominal opancreatic pseudotumor. we report a case of fat necrosis secondary to pancreatitis which clinically simulates transverse colon cancer.

background: neuroblastoma is the most common tumor in infancy and wilms’ tumor is the most common malignant tumor of kidney in childhood. both the tumors are usually within the differential diagnosis of each other. this study compares the clinical manifestations, sex and age distribution of childhood wilms’ tumor and neuroblastoma at one of tehran children hospitals. materials and methods: the ...

introduction of disorders directly related to prevalence cardiovascular diseases are iron deficiency anemia and obesity, especially that of abdomen. the purpose of the current study has been determining the relationship between anthropometric including body mass index and the size of abdomen and iron-shortage anemia .the studies conducted in the area are very limited.                           ...

background: regarding the significance of abdominal masses in children, we aimed to identify the pathology of masses according to the age and sex groups. materials and methods: we retrospectively reviewed pathological reports of 461 patients with abdominal mass that underwent resection or biopsy during the study period (25 years). results: one hundred and eighty six cases (40%) were non-neoplas...

Cystic lymphangioma is a rare benign tumour occurring during childhood. This tumour, caused by lymphatic system malformations, commonly occurs in head and neck regions. Herein, we report the case of a three-month-old male infant, diagnosed with a large cystic mass in the abdominal cavity and groin. The infant presented with low-grade fever and significant abdominal distension. Abdominal CT scan...