PURPOSE Studies undertaken in England and Scotland have identified a decrease in the number of circumcision operations being performed during childhood. The aims of this study were two-fold. Firstly, to determine the trend in circumcision operations performed in boys in Northern Ireland over a ten year period. Secondly, to compare the number of operations performed by paediatric surgeons with t...

The Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery in Gdansk is the only pediatric cardiac surgery center in northern Poland providing comprehensive treatment to children with congenital heart defects. The Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery in Gdansk currently offers a full spectrum of advanced procedures of modern cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology dedicated to patients from infancy t...

Affiliations: Department of Pediatrics, Section of Hematology-Oncology, Texas Children’s Cancer Center, and Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas77030, USA Division of Pediatric Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas77030, USA Department of Pathology, section of Pediatric Pathology, Texas Children's Ho...

In Pakistan laparoscopic surgery is not new but its application in pediatric surgery has been very limited. In the last decade, impalpable undescended testes mainly; and occasionally appendicitis and cholecystitis were few maladies dealt with laparoscopy in only two or three pediatric surgery units of the country. Very few publications were brought out from Pakistan. The pediatric surgery resid...

1. Department of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery of the Brazilian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery, Physician Assistant, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Institute of the Medical School Clinical Hospital, University of São Paulo (INCOR-HCFMUSP), Sao Paulo , SP, Brazil. 2. Department of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery of the Brazilian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery, Director of Pe...

this is a report of 30 cases of pediatric functional endoscopic sinus surgery (fess). 28 of these children had chronic sinusitis and 2 had acute sinusitis the most common chief complaints were: 1) chronic rhinorea 2) nasal obstruction 3) chronic cough. systemic predisposing conditions were allergy in 7 pts and immotile cilliasyndrome in 2 pts, all of the procedures were performed under general ...