Endoscopic Surgery in Infants and Children

Basics.- Why Endoscopic Surgery?.- Equipment and Instruments.- Robotics.- Future Technology.- Ergonomics of Task Performance in Endoscopic Surgery.- Training in Pediatric Endoscopic Surgery.- Physiologic Responses to Endoscopic Surgery.- Complications of Endoscopic Surgery in Infants and Children.- Neck.- Cervicoscopy, a Minimally Invasive Approach for the Thyroid, Parathyroid, and Thymus in Children.- Anesthesia for Pediatric Thoracoscopic Surgery.- Thoracoscopy in Infants and Children: Basic Techniques.- Implantation of a Nuss Bar Under Thoracoscopic Guidance.- Thoracoscopic Drainage and Debridement of Empyema.- The Thoracoscopic Approach to Pneumothorax in Children.- Thoracoscopic Lung Biopsy.- Thoracoscopic Lobectomy in Infants and Children.- Thoracoscopic Management of Esophageal Duplications, Bronchogenic Cysts, and Extralobar Sequestration.- The Role of Thoracoscopy for the Resection of Pulmonary Metastasis.- Thoracoscopy and Hydatid Cyst of the Lung.- Thoracoscopic Closure of Patent Ductus Arteriosus in Infants and Children.- Aortosternopexy for Tracheomalacia.- Thoracoscopic Venous Vascular Access.- Thoracoscopic Treatment of Palmar Hyperhidrosis.- Thoracoscopic Treatment of Chylothorax.- Video-assisted Thoracic Surgery for Thymectomy.- Thoracoscopic Removal of Neurogenic Mediastinal Tumors.- The Thoracoscopic Approach to Esophageal Atresia with Distal Fistula.- Thoracoscopic Repair of Esophageal Atresia without Fistula.- The Thoracoscopic Approach to H Type Tracheoesophageal Fistula.- Abdomen.- Anesthesia for Pediatric Laparoscopy.- The Basics of Laparoscopy.- Abdomen.- Esophageal Achalasia.- Laparoscopic Nissen Fundoplication.- Laparoscopic Fundoplication According to Toupet.- Laparoscopic Thal Fundoplication in Infants and Children.- Laparoscopic Gastrostomy.- Laparoscopic Pyloromyotomy.- Laparoscopic Jejunostomy.- Laparoscopic Treatment of Duodenal and Jejunal Atresia and Stenosis.- Intestinal Malrotation.- Laparoscopic Approach in Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction.- Laparoscopic Treatment of Meckel's Diverticulum.- Laparoscopic Approach to Intussusception.- Laparoscopic Treatment of Enteric Duplications and Other Abdominal Cystic Masses.- Laparoscopic Continent Appendicostomy in the Management of Fecal Incontinence and Constipation.- Laparoscopic Cecostomy and Sigmoidostomy Button.- Laparoscopic Appendectomy in Children.- Laparoscopic Management of Crohn's Disease.- Total Colectomy with J Pouch.- Hand-assisted Colectomy.- Endorectal Pull-through for Hirschsprung's Disease.- Laparoscopic-assisted Treatment of Hirschsprung's Disease According to Duhamel.- Laparoscopic Rectopexy.- Georgeson's Procedure: Laparoscopically Assisted Anorectoplasty for High Anorectal Malformations.- Laparoscopy in the Treatment of Female Infants with Anorectal Malformations.- Abdomen.- Laparoscopic Treatment of Hydatid Disease of the Liver.- Laparoscopic Liver Surgery.- Laparoscopic Kasai Portoenterostomy for Biliary Atresia.- Laparoscopic Excision of Choledochal Cyst with Hepaticojejunostomy.- Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy.- Abdomen.- Splenectomy.- Partial Splenectomies by Laparoscopy in Children.- Abdomen.- Laparoscopic Approaches to the Pancreas.- Laparoscopic Approach in Persistent Hyperinsulinemic Hypoglycemia in Infancy.- Abdomen.- Laparoscopy and Ventriculoperitoneal Shunts.- Endoscopic Surgery for Peritoneal Dialysis Catheters in Children.- Abdomen.- Abdominal Trauma.- Abdomen.- Laparoscopy for Pediatric Abdominal Malignancies.- Abdomen.- Chronic Abdominal Pain of Childhood.- Abdomen.- Laparoscopic Approach to Sacrococcygeal Teratomas.- Abdomen.- Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding in Adolescents.- Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass: Principles and Procedures.- Diaphragm.- Laparoscopic Treatment of Morgagni-Larrey Diaphragmatic Hernia.- Thoracoscopy for Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia.- Laparoscopic Repair of Diaphragmatic Defects: Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (of Bochdalek) and Eventration.- Abdominal Wall.- Laparosc

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"The audience is ... the pediatric surgeons of the world and their trainees. The authors clearly identify this group as their target audience. ... This is a nice update of the possible uses of minimally invasive surgery for the anomalies and conditions encountered in infants and children. ... this is the most current and comprehensive book for the broadest application of endoscopic techniques currently available to the pediatric surgeons of the world" (Robert M Arensman, Doody's Review Service, May, 2008)