Holcomb and Ashcraft's Pediatric Surgery

Shawn D. St Peter, M.D., is currently Senior Vice President, Surgeon-in-Chief, and Chair of the Department of Surgery at Children's Mercy Kansas City. He is also the Director of the Center for Prospective Trials. He holds the Thomas Holder and Keith Ashcraft Endowed Chair of Surgical Research. Dr. St. Peter completed surgical residency at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale with a year of research at Oxford University in Oxford, England. He finished his training with a fellowship in Pediatric Surgery at Children's Mercy Kansas City. Dr. St. Peter currently serves on committees for APSA, IPEG, AAP and ACS. He is president elect for IPEG. He is the recipient of several honors and awards, including the Golden Apple Mercy Mentor Award, which he has been awarded 6 times. Dr. St. Peter has coauthored over 450 original publications, in addition to the extensive publication of reviews, chapters, abstracts, posters, and the national and international contribution of lectures and presentations.

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