Pediatric Surgery Handbook for Residents and Medical Students (eBook)

After five years pediatric surgery residency in the Department of Pediatric Surgery of Tunis, Clermont-Ferrand, Paris, and Montpellier, Taieb Chouikh was named as an assistant professor of pediatric surgery at the Tunis school Of Medicine after succeeding in the first position at the national exam. After one year, he joined the Franche-Comte University and the Department of Pediatric Surgery of Besancon as a special registrar for one year. Today Taieb Chouikh is a Special registrar of pediatric surgery in both Necker-Enfants malades Hospital Paris and Robert Ballanger Hospital where he continues his progression and the acquisition of knowledge and experience in the field pediatric surgery. This book provides a didactic and fluid approach for medical students and interns, and enables them to understand and integrate the major themes of pediatric surgery. It includes the most common pathologies (hernia, testicular ectopia, etc), the neonatal pathologies, pediatric surgical oncology and a comprehensive chapter on the surgical approach to child injury. The objective of this book is to allow the reader to have a clear and rational approach to the condition being treated. It is not a manual of surgical techniques or pathophysiology, but rather a practical book that attempts to explain in a simple and efficient manner, the diagnostic approach and therapeutic principles in the pediatric surgery field. Several international teams from different countries who share this aim participated in the conception of this work, offering students a manual to guide them in their daily practice of pediatric surgery.Target Audience:Medical students as well as young pediatric surgery residents