Operative Pediatric Surgery

The definitive resource of pediatric surgical operations and techniques! This comprehensive text reflects the state-of-the-art surgical management of infants and children, with an emphasis on operative technique. Organ-based in its orientation, the book features over 1,500 illustrations with detailed step-by-step instructions, authoritative coverage of acquired and congenital pediatric disorders, and special emphasis on laparoscopic procedures.

CONTENTS

Operative Pediatric Surgery

Section I. General Principles
1 History of Pediatric Surgery
2 The Surgeon, Child, and Family
3 Fetal Surgery, Diagnosis, and Intervention
4 Developmental Physiology of the Premature and Term Newborn
5 Fluid and Electrolyte Management
6 Metabolic Response to Illness and Operation
7 Enteral and Parenteral Surgical Nutrition
8 Vascular Access Procedures
9 Monitoring and Pharmacologic Management in Critical Illness
10 Techniques of Respiratory Support and Extracorporal Membrane Oxygenation
11 Analgesia and Anesthesia
12 Transfusion Medicine and Coagulation Disorders
13 Surgical Infections
14 Wound Healing
15 Surgical Issues in the Management of HIV Infection and Other Immunocompromising Conditions
16 Office-Based Ambulatory Surgery
17 Health Informatics in Pediatric Surgery

Section II. The Head and Neck
18 Face and Scalp Lesions
19 Paramedian and Midline Neck Lesions: The Salivary Glands

Section III. Chest Wall and Thoracic Disease
20 Breast Disease
Chest Wall Deformity
21 Pectus Excavatum
22 Pectus Carinatum and Poland's Syndrome
23 Ectopia and Sternal Deformities

The Airway
24 Airway Endoscopy and Pathology
25 Tracheostomy and Laryngotracheal Separation
26 Posterior Largyngeal Cleft
27 Tracheal Stenosis and Tracheomalacia
The Esophagus
28 Esophagoscopy and Esophageal Foreign Body
29 Caustic Esophageal Injury and Perforations
30 Esophageal Atresia
31 Esophageal Development and Duplication
32 Achalasia
33 Gastroesophageal Reflux
34 Esophageal Replacement

The Mediastinum
35 Mediastinal Mass
36 Thymectomy: Myestenia Gravis, Cysts, and Masses

The Lung
37 Thoracoscopy
38 Lobar Emphysema: Congenital and Acquired Pulmonary Agenesis
39 Pulmonary Sequestration and Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid Malformation
40 Lung Infections: Biopsy, Abscess, and Bronchiectasis and Empyema
41 Chylothorax
42 Pneumothora
43 Diaphragmatic Hernia and Diaphragmatic Eventration
Section IV. Abdominal Disease

44 Laparoscopy

The Abdominal Wall

45 Omphalocele and Gastroschisis
46 Umbilical and Supraumbilical Disease
Inguinoscrotal Disease
47 Inguinal and Femoral Hernia
48 Crytorchidism
49 The Acute Scrotum
Gastrointestinal Tract
50 Stomach: Obstruction, Foreign Body, Microgastria, and Peptic Ulcer
51 Gastrostomy Tubes
52 Pyloric Stenosis
53 Intestinal Atresia
54 Meconium Ileus
55 Malrotation
56 Hirschstrung's Disease
57 Intussusception
58 Intestinal Stomas
59 Necrotizing Enterocolitis
60 Appendicitis
61 Inflammatory Bowel Disease
62 Short Bowel Syndrome
63 Abdominal Cysts
64 Duplications of the Intestinal Tract
65 Gastrointestinal Polyps
66 Anorectal Prolapse, Abscess, and Fissure
67 Anorectal Malformations
68 Portal Hypertension
69 Biliary Atresia and Choledochal Cyst
70 Gallbladder Disease
71 Pancreas: Persistent Hyperinsulinemic Hyperglycemia of the Newborn and Pancreatis
72 Spleen

Section V. Exocrine Surgery
73 Thyroid and Parathyroid
74 Adrenal Tumors
75 Ambiguous Genitalia and Intersex Anomalies

Section VI. Genitourinary Tract

76 Benign Renal Disease
77 Obstructive Uropathy
78 Bladder Exstrophy
79 Cloacal Exstrophy
80 Uirnary Tract Reconstruction for Continence and Preservation
81 Circumcision
82 Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
VII. Vascular and Lymphatic Malformations
83 Patent Ductus Arteriosus and Vascular Rings
84 Aortic Coarctation and Vascular Sling
85 Abdominal Aortic Pathology in Childhood
86 Vascular Malformations: Arterial, Venous, and Lymphatic

Section VIII. Neurosurgery

87 Neurosurgery for the Pediatric Surgeon
IX. Orthopedic Surgery
88 Extremity Injuries

Section X. Severe Anomalies
89 Conjoined Twins

XI. Trauma
90 Trauma: Epidemiology and Prevention of Childhood Injury
91 Child Abuse
92 Pediatric Injury Scoring and Triage Methology
93 Head and Neck Trauma
94 Thoracic Injury
95 Abdominal Trauma
96 Burn Injury
97 Animal Assaults: Bite and Stings

XII. Oncology
98 Principles of Adjuvant Therapy in Pediatric Cancer
99 Nephroblastoma (Wilms Tumor)
100 Neuroblastoma
101 Teratoma
102 Rhabdomyosarcoma
103 Hepatic Tumors
104 Lymphomas
105 Pigmented Lesions
XIII. Transplantation
106 Pediatric Immunobiology and Immunosuppression
107 Surgery and End-Stage Renal Disease
108 Liver Transplantation
109 Lung Transplantation
110 Intestinal Transplantation