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• From outreach to ownership: building sustainable paediatric surgical capacity at a secondary hospital in rural Tanzania. A ten-year experience

  Boniphace Tresphory, Alessandro Calisti, Elide Ambrosetti, Grazia Andriani, Giovanna Maria Cangi, Giovanni Giuliani, Bahati Kamwezi, Agnes Mlawa, Andrea Joseph Mombo, Paola Presutti, Bruno Turchetta

  https://doi.org/10.4081/pmc.2026.377

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• Hybrid one-stage Snodgrass–Duckett urethroplasty for severe hypospadias. A five-year institutional experience

  Nikolaos Baltogiannis, Fotini Fili, Ileana Vasiliki Baltogianni, Evangelos Papandreou

  https://doi.org/10.4081/pmc.2026.368

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• Single-center initial experience with minimally invasive extravascular stent placement for nutcracker syndrome in adolescent patients

  Salvatore Fabio Chiarenza, Giulia Brooks, Paolo Magagna, Cosimo Bleve, Jacopo Dall'Acqua, Stefania Marconi, Elisa Zolpi

  https://doi.org/10.4081/pmc.2025.353

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• Management of parapneumonial pleural empyema in children: a survey of the Italian Society of Infantile Videosurgery (SIVI)

  Alberto Ratta, Maurizio Cheli, Giovanni Gaglione, Andrea Volpe, Gabriele Lisi, Valerio Gentilino, Roberto Lo Piccolo, Giovanni Cobellis, Fawzi Shweiki, Paolo Formica, Ernesto Leva, Paola Midrio, Daniela Codrich, Michele Ubertazzi, Lorenzo Nanni, Vincenzo Domenichelli, Maria Nobili, Francesco Macchini, Alfonso Papparella, Enrico Ciardini, Luigi Mascia, Denis Cozzi, Fabio Salvatore Chiarenza, SIVI Executive Board

  https://doi.org/10.4081/pmc.2025.354

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  Unique challenges in managing pediatric colorectal diseases in under-resourced areas: context-aware adaptive responses from short-term surgical outreach visits

  Alessandro Calisti, Kibreab Belay, Giovanni Giuliani, Pierluigi Lelli Chiesa, Guglielmo Mazzoni, Philippe Molle, Paola Presutti, Diaaeldinn Yaseen Salman, Boniphace Tresphory

  https://doi.org/10.4081/pmc.2025.357

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  Morbidity related to major lung thoracoscopic resections in children

  Sara Ugolini, Lorenzo Tofani, Elisa Zolpi, Louise Montalva, Cosimo Lotti, Antonino Morabito, Fabio Chiarenza, Arnaud Bonnard

  https://doi.org/10.4081/pmc.2024.337

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  Satisfaction and results of the subareolar incision as treatment for gynecomastia in adolescents: experience of two centers

  Andrea Zangari, Carmine Noviello, Camilla Todesco, Mercedes Romano, Letizia Trotta, Carmine Botta, Ilaria Cascone, Salvatore Scommegna, Gabriele Vasta, Vito Briganti, Alfonso Papparella

  https://doi.org/10.4081/pmc.2024.336

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  The hidden burden of Pediatric urology in Sub-Saharan Africa: an analysis of hospital admission data from three East African Health Centres

  Alessandro Calisti, Diaaeldinn Yaseen Salman, Kibreab Belay, Andrea Mombo, Boniphace Tresphory, Giovanni Giuliani, Martina Sertori, Gian Battista Parigi

  https://doi.org/10.4081/pmc.2024.329

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  Presentations of bladder exstrophy in a resource-limited setting and the role of Mainz II continent diversion for late referrals or failed primary closures: a multicentric report

  Alessandro Calisti, Kibreab Belay, Andrea Mombo, Faisal Abdelgalil Nugud, Diaaeldinn Yaseen Salman, Pierluigi Lelli Chiesa

  https://doi.org/10.4081/pmc.2023.323

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