If attendance at a session speaks to the relevance of a topic, then “pediatric surgery in low-income countries: international partnerships” was an important subject for many who attended the 41st annual meeting of the Pacific Association of Pediatric Surgeons. Included on the programwere 4 invited speakers who described their experience with different types of international partnerships for add...

I N MY WILDEST DREAMS as a surgical trainee, I never thought I would be in on the founding of the surgical section of the American Academy of Pediatrics. let alone be present in its 50th anniversary year. At the time the surgical section was founded, I was 3 1 years old and actually had been practicing pediatric surgery at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia for almost a year. I had been de...

The paper describes the professional activities and merits of pediatric surgeon, science editor Russian Journal Pediatric Surgery, Anesthesia Intensive Care, Vladimir I. Petlakh in celebration his anniversary.

ASMBS pediatric committee best practice guidelines Marc Michalsky, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.A.P.*, Kirk Reichard, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.A.P., Thomas Inge, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.A.P., Janey Pratt, M.D., F.A.C.S., Carine Lenders, M.D., F.A.A.P. Chair, American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Pediatric Committee, Gainesville, Florida Co-Chair, American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surger...

The major hurdles to extensive application of balloon dilatation technology in infants in India include the limited availability of hardware and expertise for interventions in this age group. Further, a number of infants in our country with lesions amenable to early intervention may escape timely attention. We believe that this technique is particularly promising in the Indian context because o...

A 8-year-old girl was admitted with history of left sided focal seizures and headaches for 6 months. On examination, she was conscious with normal vision, but had papilledema, left upper motor neurone facial weakness and mild left hemiparesis. CT scan showed a ring enhancing lesion with mural nodule in the right fronto-parietal region (Fig. 1) she underwent craniotomy and intra-tumoral decompre...

This is apt to the discipline of pediatric surgery, as unusual anomalies are seen frequently in clinical practices. At times one tries to seek opinions and learn from experiences of other colleagues in dealing with such patients. Case reports thus become an important source of documenting such experiences and observations. In hierarchy of evidence in scientific literature, they are placed at lo...

Like most specialties, pediatric surgery is becoming more complex, and changes to health systems have not always been in the best interests of trainees or their surgical teachers. This paper outlines four of the current challenges faced by training boards in pediatric surgery worldwide, and documents their implications for the future training of pediatric surgeons.

Attention has recently been drawn to the importance of assessing blood loss in paediatric surgery (Brit. med. 7., 1964), but little has been written about such loss in adenotonsillectomy (Shalom, 1964). In this investigation we have set out to measure the operative blood loss and the degree of pre-operative fluid depletion; the significance of these with regard to postoperative progress is disc...