Appendices: Reference weights and heights -- Anatomical reference -- Human developmental milestones
Milestones in pediatric surgery -- Fluids, electrolytes, and dehydration -- Metabolic response to injury and sepsis -- Shock -- Parenteral nutrition -- Hematology for surgeons -- Postoperative problems -- Neonatal physiology and care -- Fetal surgery: general principles -- Diaphragmatic hernia -- Esophageal atresia -- Pyloric stenosis -- Malrotation -- Intestinal atresia -- Necrotizing entercolitis -- Meconium ileus -- Hirschsprung's disease -- Anorectal malformations -- Abdominal wall defects -- Surgical neck pathology -- Developmental lung anomalies -- Gastro-esophageal reflux -- Gastrointestinal bleeding -- Acute abdomen -- Intussusception -- Appendicitis -- Rare causes of abdominal pain -- Crohn's disease -- Ulcerative colitis -- Short bowel syndrome -- Intestinal transplantation -- Vascular malformations -- Inguinal hernias and hydroceles -- The acute scrotum -- The undescended testes -- Miscellaneous problems of the male genitalia -- Miscellaneous surgical issues -- Basic pediatric lapraoscopy and thoracoscopy -- Urinary tract infection -- The ureter -- Vesico-ureteric reflux -- Neurogenic bladder -- Posterior urethral valves -- Hypospadias -- Bladder exstrophy, epispadias, and cloacal exstrophy -- Disorders of sex development -- Investigation of jaundice -- Biliary atresia -- Choledochal malformations -- Gallbladder disease -- Portal hypertension -- Pancreatic disease -- Liver transplantation -- Wilms' tumor -- Liver tumors -- Neuroblastoma -- Teratomas -- Miscellaneous tumors -- Trauma management: general principles -- Abdominal trauma -- Thoracic trauma -- Basic brain injury -- Spina bifida -- Hydrocephalus
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Handbook of Pediatric Surgery is an extensive yet concise distillation of the knowledge in its field, making for an ideal day-to-day reference guidebook. The sections include: Principles of Surgical Science; Fetal and Neonatal Surgery; General Children's Surgery; Principles of Pediatric Urology; Surgery of the Liver, Pancreas and Bile Ducts; Principles of Surgical Oncology; Pediatric Surgery in Clinical Practice; and Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus. Written by distinguished authors from across the world, this book presents an international coalescence of perspectives that the reader will find truly enriching and instructive. Chandrasen K. Sinha is a Specialist Registrar in Pediatric Surgery at King's College Hospital in London, UK. Mark Davenport is a Consultant Pediatric Surgeon at King's College Hospital in London, UK