1st Edition
Pediatric Minimal Access Surgery
This authoritative guide reviews the evoloving evidence-based literature for a wide variety of procedures and techniques in pediatric minimal access surgery (MAS)-providing expertly-written chapters that cover the techniques specific to a broad range of diseases, as well as current advances in urology, neurosurgery, and spinal and cardiac surgery.
Preface
Contributors
Introduction: An Evidence-Based Approach to Pediatric
Minimal Access Surgery
Jacob C. Langer and Craig T. Albanese
History of Pediatric Minimal Access Surgery
Joselito G. Tantoco, Marc A. Levitt, and Philip L. Glick
Anesthesia for Pediatric Minimal Access Surgery
Laura Siedman
Minimal Access Neonatal Surgery
Klaas (N) M. A. Bax and David C. van der Zee
Clinical Outcomes in Minimal Access Fetal Surgery
Preeti Malladi, Karl G. Sylvester, and Craig T. Albanese
The Role of Minimal Access Surgery in Pediatric Trauma
Allan M. Goldstein and Steven Stylianos
Minimal Access Surgery for Pediatric Cancer
J. Ted Gerstle and Andrea Hayes-Jordan
Complications of Pediatric Minimal Access Surgery
Paul W. Wales
Specific Disease and Procedures in Pediatric General Surgery Minimal Access Surgical Approaches to Childhood Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Disorders
Sanjeev Dutta
Laparoscopic Splenectomy
Frederick J. Rescorla
Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy in Children: An Outcomes Analysis
Mark L. Wulkan
Outcomes Following Laparoscopic Pyloromyotomy for Infantile
Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis
Shawn J. Rangel and Craig T. Albanese
Laparoscopic Fundoplication in Infants and Children
Daniel J. Ostlie and George W. Holcomb III
Gastrostomy, Jejunostomy, and Cecostomy
Hanmin Lee
Achalasia
Craig T. Albanese
Laparoscopic Appendectomy
J. Mark Walton and Peter Fitzgerald
Meckel Diverticulum, Duplications, Small Bowel Obstruction, and Intussusception
Mark V. Mazziotti and Jacob C. Langer
Laparoscopic-Assisted Total Colectomy with Pouch Reconstruction
Keith E. Georgeson
Minimal Access Surgery for Hirschsprung Disease
Jacob C. Langer
Minimal Access Treatment of Anorectal Malformations
Thomas H. Inge
Laparoscopy for Ovarian Pathology.
David Gibbs and Peter C. W. Kim
Intestinal Rotation Abnormalities
Sean E. McLean and Robert K. Minkes
Varicocele
Philippe Montupet and Ciro Esposito
Nonpalpable Undescended Testis
Philippe Montupet and Ciro Esposito
Lung Biopsy, Lung Resection, and Pneumothorax
Steven S. Rothenberg
Minimal Access Surgery in the Management of Empyema
Brian Cameron
Mediastinum, Esophagus, and Diaphragm
Steven S. Rothenberg
Bariatric Surgery
Evan P. Nadler and Timothy D. Kane
A Miniature Access Approach to Pectus Excavatum
Scott C. Boulanger and Philip L. Glick
Minimal Access Surgery in Other Pediatric Surgical Specialities
Minimal Access Surgery in Pediatric Urology
Alaa El-Ghoneimi
Minimally Invasive Pediatric Neurosurgery
Wilson Ho and James M. Drake
Minimal Access for Surgery in Pediatric Spinal Surgery
Alvin H. Crawford, A. A. Durrani, and Mohammed J. Al-Sayyad
Minimally Invasive Surgery in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
Michael D. Black
The Interventional Radiologist’s Role in Pediatric Minimally
Invasive Surgery
Michael Temple, Peter Chait, Bairbre Connolly, Philip John, and Ricardo Restrepo
Future Directions
Ethical Issues in Pediatric Minimal Access Surgery
Annie Fecteau
Education and Training for Pediatric Minimal Access Surgery
David A. Rogers
Robotically Assisted Pediatric Surgery
David Le, Russell Woo, and Craig T. Albanese
Index
Biography
Langer\, Jacob C.; Albanese\, Craig T.
"…a nice contribution to the growing literature on this type of surgical access."
-Doody's Reviews
