1st Edition

Pediatric Minimal Access Surgery

Edited By Jacob C. Langer, Craig T. Albanese Copyright 2005
    520 Pages 104 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    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