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Surgical Safety in Children
Patients receiving healthcare are at risk of inadvertent harm during that care. Paediatric surgical patients are no exception and have some unique...
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Birth Trauma
Birth trauma is defined as injuries associated with mechanical forces producing haemorrhage, oedema, tissue disruption, or alteration of organ...
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Transport of the Surgical Neonate
Due to centralization and resource optimization, treatment of life-threatening congenital malformations and complex diseases in the newborn can only...
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Surgical Aspects of HIV Infection in Children
According to the joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), 37.9 million adults and children worldwide were estimated to be living with...
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Acute Scrotum
Acute scrotum pain is defined as pain, swelling, and/or tenderness of the intrascrotal contents. The onset of symptoms can occur as rapidly as within...
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Lymphatic Malformations
Lymphatic malformations constitute one subset of a larger group of benign, congenital vascular lesions resulting from embryologic errors in...
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Fluid Management
Paediatric fluid therapy is a complex area. The unique physiology of paediatric patients presents a number of challenges that must be accounted for...
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Long-Term Outcomes in Pediatric Surgery
This chapter describes the common methods to study long-term outcomes in patients who have undergone major surgery in childhood, especially repair of...
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Esophageal Perforations and Caustic Injuries in Children
Esophageal perforations in children may occur occasionally and are usually due to iatrogenic or traumatic causes. These are life-threatening if not...
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Bladder Exstrophy
Bladder exstrophy falls on a spectrum spanning a gamut from the relatively benign isolated epispadias to the severe cloacal exstrophy. In regards to...
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Choledochal Cyst
Choledochal cyst is essentially a dilated segment of the bile duct. The prevalence rates of choledochal cysts are much higher in the Asian population...
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Cloacal Exstrophy
Cloacal exstrophy is an extremely rare and complex congenital anomaly. The management of patients diagnosed prenatally and managed postnatally...
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Duodenal Obstruction
The duodenum is the most common site of neonatal intestinal obstruction, accounting for 50% of all intestinal atresias. Duodenal Obstruction (DO) is...
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Prune Belly Syndrome
Prune belly syndrome (PBS), which is also known as Eagle-Barrett syndrome, is a rare syndrome classically consisting of a triad of characteristics:...
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Hepatic Tumors in Childhood
Hepatic tumors are the third most common intra-abdominal tumors and constitute approximately 2% of all pediatric tumors. Third of these are benign...
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Short Bowel Syndrome
The term short bowel syndrome (SBS) defines a state of maldigestion and malabsorption of many different etiologies. Pediatric SBS results after...
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Variant Hirschsprung’s Disease
Variants of Hirschsprung’s disease (HD) are rare conditions that clinically resemble HD despite the presence of ganglion cells in rectal biopsies....
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Intestinal Malrotation
Intestinal malrotation comprises a spectrum of congenital anomalies due to aberrant intestinal rotation and fixation of the gut occurring during...
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Gallbladder Disease
Gallbladder disease is one of the most common abdominal conditions requiring the attention of the pediatric surgeon. In this chapter, we review the...
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Injuries to the Tendons of the Hand
While the hand represents the most frequently injured part of the body in children, tendon injuries occur relatively rarely. Due to their superficial...