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    The use of laparoscopy in the diagnosis and treatment of abdominal complications of ventriculo-peritoneal shunts in children (1998)
    Springer
    Pediatric surgery international 13 (1998), S. 352-354 
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    ISSN: 1437-9813
    Keywords: Key words Laparoscopy ; Ventriculo-peritoneal shunt ; Children
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Ventriculo-peritoneal shunts (VPS) are the most frequent operative procedures used to treat hydrocephalic children. Abdominal complications of VPS are now a rare event; however, their frequency varies from 5% to 47% according to reports. Anything that causes an obstruction or impediment of the VP derivation system will lead to intracranial hypertension, which requires immediate surgery. From 1985 to 1995 at the Division of Pediatric Surgery of the Federico II University of Naples, ten laparoscopies were performed in ten children with VPS complications. Cerebrospinal fluid pseudocysts were found in four infants. There was one case of abdominal wall perforation by the tip of the catheter at the umbilical level, two bowel obstructions, and one catheter was lost in the abdominal cavity. Finally, two children had malfunctioning of the peritoneal limb of the catheter. The laparoscopic technique was curative in all ten cases, thus avoiding a conventional laparotomy and the consequent risk of adhesions, which could cause further complications.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s003830050337
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    Free trade zones, tariffs and the real exchange rate (1996)
    Springer
    Open economies review 7 (1996), S. 199-217 
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    ISSN: 1573-708X
    Keywords: free trade zone ; regional income ; tariffs ; non-traded goods ; real exchange rate ; unemployment ; F10 ; F21 ; O10
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: Abstract This article examines the consequences of changes in final and intermediate good tariffs on structural adjustment, urban unemployment, and the real exchange rate in the presence of a free trade zone (FTZ) and foreign capital in the host country. The location of the FTZ and the disaggregation of the economy allows us to examine the consequences of a tariff change on regional incomes. It is shown that as a consequence of a tariff change the urban and rural incomes need not necessarily move in the same direction (hence the potential for rural and urban conflict in policy making). It is also shown that an increase in the tariff on an immediate good may result in both export promotion and an increase in welfare. Such expansion is a nonconventional result, since raising barriers to trade normally leads to a contradiction in the volume of the trade. The interconnection between the real exchange rate and intermediate good tariff is also explored in this article. It is shown that a policy of imposing tariffs on these goods may result in the appreciation of the real exchange rate.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01886821
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