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Holcomb and Ashcraft's Pediatric Surgery. Edition No. 7

  • Book

  • May 2019
  • Elsevier Health Science
  • ID: 4768370

Known for its readability, portability, and global perspectives, Holcomb and Ashcraft's Pediatric Surgery remains the most comprehensive, up-to-date, single-volume text in its field. As technology and techniques continue to evolve, the 7th Edition provides state-of-the-art coverage-both in print and on video-of the full range of general surgical and urological problems in infants, children, and adolescents, equipping you to achieve optimal outcomes for every patient.

  • Provides authoritative, practical coverage to help you implement today's best evidence-based open and minimally invasive techniques, with guidance from internationally recognized experts in the field.

  • Features more than 1,000 high-quality images depicting the visual nuances of surgery for the full range of pediatric and urologic conditions you're likely to see.

  • Delivers comprehensive updates throughout including the latest advances in managing Inguinal Hernias and Hydroceles; Imperforate Anus and Cloacal Malformations; Hirschsprung Disease; Duodenal and Intestinal Atresia and Stenosis; Esophageal Atresia; and more.

  • Offers access to more than 50 videos that help you improve and refine your surgical skills. New videos cover Fetal Endoluminal Tracheal Occlusion (FETO); Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair; Robotic Extravesical Ureteral Reimplantation; Laparoscopic Management of Ovarian Torsion; and Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy.
  • Enhanced eBook version included with purchase, which allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices

Table of Contents

Section I : GENERAL

1 PHYSIOLOGY OF THE NEWBORN

2 NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT FOR THE PEDIATRIC PATIENT

3 ANESTHETIC CONSIDERATIONS FOR PEDIATRIC SURGICAL CONDITIONS

4 RENAL IMPAIRMENT AND RENOVASCULAR HYPERTENSION

5 COAGULOPATHIES AND SICKLE CELL DISEASE

6 EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION

7 MECHANICAL VENTILATION IN PEDIATRIC SURGICAL DISEASE

8 VASCULAR ACCESS

9 SURGICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASE

10 FETAL THERAPY

Section II: TRAUMA

11 INGESTION OF FOREIGN BODIES

12 BITES

13 BURNS

14 EARLY ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF TRAUMA

15 THORACIC TRAUMA

16 ABDOMINAL AND RENAL TRAUMA

17 Head Injury and Facial Trauma

18 PEDIATRIC ORTHOPEDIC TRAUMA

19 Neurosurgical Conditions

Section III: THORACIC

20 CHEST WALL DEFORMITIES

21 MANAGEMENT OF LARYNGOTRACHEAL OBSTRUCTION IN CHILDREN

22 CONGENITAL BRONCHOPULMONARY MALFORMATIONS

23 ACQUIRED LESIONS OF THE LUNG AND PLEURA

24 CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGMATIC HERNIA AND EVENTRATION

25 MEDIASTINAL TUMORS

26 THE ESOPHAGUS

27 ESOPHAGEAL ATRESIA AND TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA MALFORMATIONS

Section IV: ABDOMEN

28 GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX

29 LESIONS OF THE STOMACH

30 DUODENAL AND INTESTINAL ATRESIA AND STENOSIS

31 Malrotation

32 MECONIUM DISEASE

33 NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS

34 HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE

35 ANORECTAL ATRESIA AND CLOACAL MALFORMATIONS

36 FECAL INCONTINENCE AND CONSTIPATION

37 ACQUIRED ANORECTAL DISORDERS

38 INTUSSUSCEPTION

39 ALIMENTARY TRACT DUPLICATIONS

40 MECKEL DIVERTICULUM

41 INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE

42 Appendicitis

43 BILIARY ATRESIA

44 CHOLEDOCHAL CYST AND GALLBLADDER DISEASE

45 SOLID ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION IN CHILDREN

46 LESIONS OF THE PANCREAS

47 Splenic Conditions

48 CONGENITAL ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECTS - GASTROSCHISIS AND OMPHALOCELE

49 Umbilical and Other Abdominal Wall Hernias

Section V: INGUINAL REGION AND SCROTUM

50 Inguinal Hernia

51 UNDESCENDED TESTES AND TESTICULAR TUMORS

52 THE ACUTE SCROTUM

Section VI: UROLOGY

53 DEVELOPMENTAL AND POSITIONAL ANOMALIES OF THE KIDNEYS

54 URETERAL OBSTRUCTION AND MALFORMATIONS

55 URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS AND VESICOURETERAL REFLUX

56 BLADDER AND URETHRA

57 POSTERIOR URETHRAL VALVES

58 BLADDER AND CLOACAL EXSTROPHY

59 HYPOSPADIAS

60 CIRCUMCISION

61 Prune Belly Syndrome

62 DIFFERENCES OF SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT

Section VII: NEOPLASMS

63 PRINCIPLES OF ADJUVANT THERAPY IN CHILDHOOD CANCER

64 RENAL TUMORS

65 NEUROBLASTOMA

66 LESIONS OF THE LIVER

67 TERATOMAS, DERMOIDS, AND OTHER SOFT TISSUE TUMORS

68 LYMPHOMAS

69 Rhabdomyosarcoma

Section VIII: SKIN AND SOFT TISSUE DISEASES

70 Nevus and Melanoma

71 Vascular Anomalies

72 HEAD AND NECK SINUSES AND MASSES

Section IX: SPECIAL TOPICS

73 PEDIATRIC AND ADOLESCENT GYNECOLOGY

74 BREAST DISEASES

75 ENDOCRINE DISORDERS AND TUMORS

76 Bariatric Surgical Procedures in Adolescence

Authors

George W. Holcomb Katharine Berry Richardson Professor of Surgery, Senior Vice-President, The Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO, USA. J. Patrick Murphy Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO, USA.