Access the accompanying videos for this chapter online. Available on ExpertConsult.com . The need to obtain diagnostic lung tissue occurs often in infants and children. Disease processes such as interstitial lung disease (ILD), infectious lung disease, and metastatic lung lesions…
Although thoracoscopy was first described in the early 1900s, the minimally invasive approach to thoracic conditions has undergone an exponential increase in popularity and growth over the last two decades. In the 1970s and 1980s, the first significant experience with…
Vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) is one of the most common urological problems in infants and young children, resulting from an incompetent ureterovesical junction (UVJ) that allows abnormal retrograde flow of urine from the bladder to the upper urinary tract. Several studies…
Access the accompanying videos for this chapter online. Available on ExpertConsult.com . The use of laparoscopy in pediatric urology has evolved over the past 30 years. Beginning in the 1980s, with diagnostic laparoscopy for cryptorchidism, indications have expanded from straightforward…
Access the accompanying videos for this chapter online. Available on ExpertConsult.com . Robotic surgery is a well-established technology in all surgical specialties. An enormous variety of cases have been accomplished with robotic technology in general surgery, urology, gynecology, and otolaryngology.…
Access the accompanying videos for this chapter online. Available on ExpertConsult.com . Inguinal hernia repair is one of the most commonly performed operations in children. The open inguinal approach is an excellent method for repair but has the potential risk…
Access the accompanying videos for this chapter online. Available on ExpertConsult.com . Approximately 8% of adolescents (12 to 19 years of age) in the United States suffer from severe obesity, with a significant proportion affected by obesity-associated comorbidities. Nonoperative strategies…
Access the accompanying videos for this chapter online. Available on ExpertConsult.com . Paralysis or eventration of the diaphragm is a relatively uncommon problem in infants and children, but one that can cause significant respiratory distress. Eventration may be congenital in…
Access the accompanying videos for this chapter online. Available on ExpertConsult.com . Choledochal cyst is a traditional term representing a congenital dilatation of the biliary tract. Choledochal cysts are classified into five types: Type I Ia. Cystic dilatation of the…
Access the accompanying videos for this chapter online. Available on ExpertConsult.com . Despite the first successful surgical treatment for correctable biliary atresia (BA) being reported in 1928, very few patients with correctable BA survived long term. In 1959, Professor Kasai…