What to expect at your child’s appointment: Your child will be seen and evaluated in our Pediatric Surgery clinic by one of our pediatric surgeons or the physician assistant. This visit is for consultation only. Your child will not be circumcised on the day of the clinic visit. We will schedule your child for outpatient surgery. You and your child will arrive at the hospital on the morning of s...

1 Integrated Research and Treatment Center AdiposityDiseases, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany 2 Department of General Surgery, Asklepios Clinic, Hamburg, Germany 3 Schön Klinik Hamburg Eilbek Bariatric Clinic, Hamburg, Germany 4 Department of General, Visceral, Vascular and Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany 5 Department of V...

Background In pediatric general anesthesia, our goal should be quicker extubation to facilitate rapid turnover in the operating room without compromising on safety and quality of anesthesia. Although many studies have focused on improving safety and pursuing a higher quality of recovery, factors related to anesthesia emergence remain unclear. We must, therefore, identify factors that influence ...

Dr. Steven S. Rothenberg is the Chief of Pediatric Surgery at the Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children at Presbyterian/St. Luke’s in Denver, CO. He is also a Clinical Professor of Surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (New York, NY). He is a world leader in the field of endoscopic surgery in infants and children and has pioneered many of the procedures using minimall...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Pediatric cataract surgery remains a very important and difficult problem to manage. While dramatic advances have occurred in this field over the past 10 years, some technical aspects of surgery, changing refraction and functional outcome continue to pose significant problems. The aim of the present review is to update the reader on advances reported on the topic during the pa...

Introduction: Along with advances occurring in cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) including improved anesthesia intubation and early surgical interventions, it has become possible to correct life-threatening congenital heart anatomic abnormalities in patients. Our study aimed to collect information from one of the most important centers of pediatric cardiac surgery in Iran since there is limited info...

The craniovertebral junction (CVJ) has attracted more attention in pediatric medicine in recent years due to the progress in surgical technologies allowing a direct approach to the CVJ in children. The CVJ is the site of numerous pathologies, most originating in bone anomalies resulting from abnormal CVJ development. Before discussing the surgical approaches to CVJ, three points should be borne...

Division of Pediatric Surgery, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois and Department of Surgery, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois Address correspondence to David H. Rothstein, Division of Pediatric Surgery, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, 225 E Chicago Ave, Box 63, Chicago, IL 60611. E-mail: drothstein@luriechildr...