Paediatric Thoracic Surgery

Historical aspects; nursing perspectives in the management of infants and children requiring thoracic surgery; influence of anatomy and physiology on the management of oesophageal atresia; cervical, cervico-mediastinal and intrathoracic lymphangioma; intralobar pulmonary sequestration; mediastinal masses in childhood - a review from a paediatric pathologist's point of view; unusual varieties of diaphragmatic herniae; current status of cardiac surgery in childhood; an approach to the management of chest wall deformities; unusual problems in oesophageal surgery in childhood; magnetic resonance imaging as a new diagnostic criterion in paediatric airway obstruction; tracheal stenosis by innominate artery compression in infants - surgical treatment in 35 cases; indication and results of thoracic surgical procedures in premature infants.