A timely practical textbook encompassing the full range of clinical conditions within paediatric surgery. Surgeons-in-training will be delighted to discover that the book offers them a concise outline of paediatric surgical practice, thus ensuring that they are wholly familiar with a wide range of clinical scenarios.

Key topics are included within sections on neonatal surgical conditions, surgical disorders of infancy, surgical conditions in childhood and adolescence, head and neck, hepatobiliary and pancreatic disorders, preparation of the child for surgery, malignant disorders, urology, neurosurgery, and trauma. Short chapters complemented by clinical photography, schematic figures and tables splendidly enables the reader to understand key concepts with confidence.

World author experts have generously contributed to this textbook ensuring that the contents reflect real world' practice. A wide range of readers notably surgeons-in-training, members of the paediatric surgery care team including nursing staff, postgraduates seeking core knowledge of paediatric surgery for board examinations, and surgeons planning to specialise in paediatric surgery will benefit greatly from this practical guide.


Martin Corbally is a Consultant Paediatric Surgeon and Chief of Staff at the Royal Medical Services - King Hamad University Hospital, Kingdom of Bahrain. An Ainsworth scholar, he has completed training in Paediatric Surgical Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NYC., Liver transplantation at Kings College Hospital, London and is a former Senior Registrar at Great Ormond St. Hospital and Our Lady's Children's Hospital Crumlin, Dublin. He is the Professor and Head of the Dept of Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons Medical University of Bahrain. He has a major interest in surgical education, global paediatric surgery and is founder and programme director of Operation Childlife- an Irish registered global charity.

Paul Losty has served as Professor of Paediatric Surgery at Alder Hey Children's Hospital Liverpool one of the largest Children's Hospitals in the UK and Europe. Professor Losty trained in General Surgery and Paediatric Surgery in the major university teaching hospitals affiliated with the Royal College of Surgeons (RCSI) in Ireland, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School Boston, USA and Alder Hey Children's Hospital Liverpool. Working as a university academic surgeon at the University of Liverpool for almost 30 years Professor Losty delivered clinical and faculty leadership in academic paediatric surgery. He has major interests in surgical research, education & teaching, mentorship & leadership and has helped train generations of young paediatric surgeons in the clinic, operating room and science laboratory. Professor Losty is now currently serving as a Distinguished & Visiting Professor of Surgery at Ramathibodi Hospital Mahidol University Bangkok Thailand and is a volunteer surgeon with Operation Child Life an Irish global charitable organisation - providing surgical health care to low and middle income world countries.


Preface

Editor biography(s)

Contributing authorship(s)

Forewords Professor Lewis Spitz and Professor Ray J. Fitzgerald

I Want to be a Paediatric Surgeon


Neonatal Surgery


1) Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia & Eventration Of The Diaphragm

Shankar Raghu, Martin T. Corbally, Paul D. Losty

2) Oesophageal Atresia and Tracheo-Oesophageal Fistula & Congenital Oesophageal Disorders

Shankar Raghu, Martin T. Corbally, Paul D. Losty

3) Neonatal Mediastinal Mass Lesions

Ryo Tamura and Hany Gabra

4) Neonatal Pulmonary Barotrauma Surgical Aspects

Shankar Raghu, Martin T. Corbally

5) Congenital Lung Malformations

Georgina Bough and Mike Stanton

6) Exomphalos And Gastroschisis

Shankar Raghu, Martin T. Corbally, Paul D. Losty

7) Intestinal Atresia: Duodenal-Jejunal-Ileal-Colonic Disorders

Marion Arnold and Sharon Cox

8) Malrotation And Heterotaxy Disorders

, Rocio Boudou, Sabrina Pintos and Pablo Lobos

9) Hirschsprung Disease

Patrick Chung and Paul KH Tam,

10) Anorectal Malformations

Shankar Raghu and Martin T. Corbally

11) Meconium Ileus

Andrea Conforti, Francesco Morini and Pietro Bagolan,

12) Infantile Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis

Gerlin Naidoo and Paul D. Losty

13) Necrotising Enterocolitis (NEC)

Elke Ruttenstock, Agostino Pierro and Augusto Zani

14) Intestinal Failure

Annika Mutanen and Mikko Pakarinen

15) Neonatal Abdominal Masses

Ryo Tamura and Hany Gabra

16) Cardiac Surgery

Mark Redmond

17) Fetal Surgery

Cara Berkowitz and William H Peranteau



Surgical Disorders Of Infancy


18) Inguinal Hernia & Hydrocoele

Nabeel Asheeri

19) Umbilical Hernia, Epigastric Hernia and Allied Conditions

Steve Donnell

20) Vitello-Intestinal Duct Disorders

Nick Lansdale

21) Undescended Testes

Spencer Beasley

22) Intussusception

Emma Sidebotham

23) Intestinal Foreign Bodies and Corrosive Oesophagitis

Prince Raj, Abeer Farhan, Paul D Losty and Martin T. Corbally

24) Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux

Natalie Durkin and Paolo De Coppi

25) Necrotizing Pneumonia

Prince Raj, AlAwadhi Mohamed Amin and Martin T. Corbally



Surgical Conditions In Childhood & Adolescence


26) Acute and Recurrent Abdominal Pain of Childhood

Hind Zaidan and Martin T. Corbally

27) Disorders Of the Spleen

Riccardo Coletta, Kejd Bici and Antonino Morabito

28) Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Bruce Jaffray

29) Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding and Polyps in Children

Olugbenga Awolaran and Bruce Okoye

30) Constipation And Faecal Incontinence

Payam Saadai and Marc Levitt

31) Chest Wall deformities

Elizabeth O'Connor and Hany Gabra

32) Acute Disorders of the Ovary

Sarah Braungart and Paul D Losty

33) Acute Scrotum

Zeni Haveliwala and Alexander Cho

34) Disorders of the Breast

Jennifer Mou and Vicky Wong

35) Ectopic Pregnancy

Cara Williams

36) Sexually Transmitted Infection(s)

Cara Williams



Head And Neck


37) Thyroid

Alok Sharma, Iain J. Nixon and Paul Cullis,

38) Branchial Cleft, Branchial Fistula and Sternal Cleft Lesions

Emma Whitehall and Adam Donne

39) Lymphadenopathy

A Boonthai and Paul D. Losty

40) Airway Disorders & Subglottic Stenosis

Bronagh Lang, Rania Mehanna and John Russell



Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Disorders


41) Biliary Atresia

Mark Davenport

42) Choledochal Malformation

Mark Davenport

43) Cholelithiasis

Mark Stringer

44) Congenital Hyperinsulinism (CHI)

Pablo Laje and NS Adzick



Preparation of The Child for Surgery


45) Physiology ABC - Fluid and Electrolyte Balance in Pediatric Surgical Patients

Prince, Abeer, Alawadi and Martin T. Corbally

46) Nutritional Support

Dhanya Mullassery and Simon Eaton

47) Special Anaesthetic Considerations for the Surgical Patient with Allied Medical Disorders

Lisa Barneto and Katherine Lau

48) Consent

Prince, Abeer and Martin T. Corbally

49) Patient Safety and WHO Surgery Check List(s)

Iain Yardley

50) Ethical Challenges of the Extremely Preterm Neonate

Hind Zaidan and Martin T. Corbally

51) Ethics & Conjoined Twins

Hind Zaidan and Martin T. Corbally


Malignant Disorders


52) Abdominal Solid Tumours

Alessandro Crocoli and Alessandro Inserra

53) Neoplasms Of the Ovary and Testes

Sarah Braungart and Paul D. Losty

54) Head And Neck Malignancy

Omar Sabra

55) Chest And Mediastinal Tumours

Chan Hon Chui

56) Sacrococcygeal Teratoma

Paul D Losty

57) Lymphoma(s)

Luca Pio

58) Skin And Naevi

Martin Van Carlen, Rong Khaw and Adel Fatah

59) Vascular And Lymphatic Disorders

Claire Ostertag-Hill, Anna McGuire, Belinda Dickie and Steve Fishman

60) Endocrine Tumours

Simone Abib

61) Vascular Access

Laura Phillips and Hany Gabra

62) Infections And the Paediatric Cancer Patient

Olivia Burdall and Timothy Rodgers


Urology


63) Antenatal Hydroureteronephrosis : Posterior Urethral Valves And Prenatal Urinary Tract Dilatation

Diane De Caluwe and Marie-Klaire Farrugia

64) Pelvi-Ureteric Junction Obstruction

Diane De Caluwe and Mohamed Shalaby

65) Enuresis

Faisal Almutairi and Anju Goyal

66) Neuropathic Bladder

Faisal Almutairi and Anju Goyal

67) Hypospadias

Ahmed Hadidi

68) Bladder Extrophy And Variants

Peter Cuckow

69) Preputial Disorders - Phimosis, BXO and Circumcision

Semiu Eniola Folaranmi and Paul D Losty

70) Vesico-Ureteric Reflux

Fabio Bartoli

71) Abnormalities Of The Vagina In Childhood

Prince Raj, Abeer Farhan and Martin T Corbally

72) Disorders Of Sexual Development

Neetu Kumar and Abraham Cherian



Neurosurgery


73) Spina Bifida And Neural Tube Defects

Prince Raj and Martin T. Corbally

74) Hydrocephalus And Raised Intracranial Pressure

Talal AlMayman

75) Central Nervous System Miscellaneous Lesions

Tala AlMayman


Trauma


76) APLS and ATLS Essential Principles Of Care

Hussein Ahmed and Martin T. Corbally

77) Foreign Body Aspiration

Hesham Yusuf Saad

78) Chest Trauma

Andrew Holland

79) Abdomen And Pelvic Trauma

Hussein Ahmed and Martin T. Corbally

80) Pediatric Extremity Injury

Abdulla Fakhro

81) Munchausen By Proxy, Non-Accidental Injury And Child Abuse

A Boonthai and Paul D. Losty

82) Burns & Bites

Agata Plonczak and Adel Fattah





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