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• Adjunctive supplementation with vitamin E, zinc, L-arginine, L-citrulline, coenzyme Q10, and selenium enhances testicular recovery after Palomo varicocelectomy with indocyanine green in adolescents: a retrospective analysis

  Ciro Esposito, Salvatore Fabio Chiarenza, Claudia Di Mento, Marco Chiarenza, Fulvia Del Conte, Vincenzo Coppola, Roberta Guglielmini, Francesco Tedesco, Francesca Carraturo, Maria Escolino

  DOI https://doi.org/10.4081/pmc.2026.384

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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

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

  • 481 abstract views
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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

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

  • 651 abstract views
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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

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

  • 818 abstract views
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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

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

  • 867 abstract views
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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

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

  • 1,929 abstract views
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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

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

  • 3,278 abstract views
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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

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

  • 2,217 abstract views
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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

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

  • 3,913 abstract views
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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

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

  • 1,995 abstract views
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