Ashcraft’s Pediatric Surgery (7th Edition)

Description

Known for its readability, portability, and global perspectives, Holcomb and Ashcraft’s Pediatric Surgery remains the most comprehensive, up-to-date, single-volume text in its field. As technology and techniques continue to evolve, the 7th Edition provides state-of-the-art coverage—both in print and on video—of the full range of general surgical and urological problems in infants, children, and adolescents, equipping you to achieve optimal outcomes for every patient.

Key Features

• Provides authoritative, practical coverage to help you implement today’s best evidence-based open and minimally invasive techniques, with guidance from internationally recognized experts in the field.
• Features more than 1,000 high-quality images depicting the visual nuances of surgery for the full range of pediatric and urologic conditions you’re likely to see.
• Delivers comprehensive updates throughout including the latest advances in managing Inguinal Hernias and Hydroceles; Imperforate Anus and Cloacal Malformations; Hirschsprung Disease; Duodenal and Intestinal Atresia and Stenosis; Esophageal Atresia; and more.
• Offers access to more than 50 videos that help you improve and refine your surgical skills. New videos cover Fetal Endoluminal Tracheal Occlusion (FETO); Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair; Robotic Extravesical Ureteral Reimplantation; Laparoscopic Management of Ovarian Torsion; and Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy.
• Enhanced eBook version included with purchase, which allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices

Table of Contents

1. Section I : GENERAL
   1. PHYSIOLOGY OF THE NEWBORN
   2. NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT FOR THE PEDIATRIC PATIENT
   3. ANESTHETIC CONSIDERATIONS FOR PEDIATRIC SURGICAL CONDITIONS
   4. RENAL IMPAIRMENT AND RENOVASCULAR HYPERTENSION
   5. COAGULOPATHIES AND SICKLE CELL DISEASE
   6. EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION
   7. MECHANICAL VENTILATION IN PEDIATRIC SURGICAL DISEASE
   8. VASCULAR ACCESS
   9. SURGICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASE
   10. FETAL THERAPY
2. Section II: TRAUMA
   1. INGESTION OF FOREIGN BODIES
   2. BITES
   3. BURNS
   4. EARLY ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF TRAUMA
   5. THORACIC TRAUMA
   6. ABDOMINAL AND RENAL TRAUMA
   7. Head Injury and Facial Trauma
   8. PEDIATRIC ORTHOPEDIC TRAUMA
   9. Neurosurgical Conditions
3. Section III: THORACIC
   1. CHEST WALL DEFORMITIES
   2. MANAGEMENT OF LARYNGOTRACHEAL OBSTRUCTION IN CHILDREN
   3. CONGENITAL BRONCHOPULMONARY MALFORMATIONS
   4. ACQUIRED LESIONS OF THE LUNG AND PLEURA
   5. CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGMATIC HERNIA AND EVENTRATION
   6. MEDIASTINAL TUMORS
   7. THE ESOPHAGUS
   8. ESOPHAGEAL ATRESIA AND TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA MALFORMATIONS
4. Section IV: ABDOMEN
   1. GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX
   2. LESIONS OF THE STOMACH
   3. DUODENAL AND INTESTINAL ATRESIA AND STENOSIS
   4. Malrotation
   5. MECONIUM DISEASE
   6. NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS
   7. HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE
   8. ANORECTAL ATRESIA AND CLOACAL MALFORMATIONS
   9. FECAL INCONTINENCE AND CONSTIPATION
   10. ACQUIRED ANORECTAL DISORDERS
   11. INTUSSUSCEPTION
   12. ALIMENTARY TRACT DUPLICATIONS
   13. MECKEL DIVERTICULUM
   14. INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE
   15. Appendicitis
   16. BILIARY ATRESIA
   17. CHOLEDOCHAL CYST AND GALLBLADDER DISEASE
   18. SOLID ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION IN CHILDREN
   19. LESIONS OF THE PANCREAS
   20. Splenic Conditions
   21. CONGENITAL ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECTS – GASTROSCHISIS AND OMPHALOCELE
   22. Umbilical and Other Abdominal Wall Hernias
5. Section V: INGUINAL REGION AND SCROTUM
   1. Inguinal Hernia
   2. UNDESCENDED TESTES AND TESTICULAR TUMORS
   3. THE ACUTE SCROTUM
6. Section VI: UROLOGY
   1. DEVELOPMENTAL AND POSITIONAL ANOMALIES OF THE KIDNEYS
   2. URETERAL OBSTRUCTION AND MALFORMATIONS
   3. URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS AND VESICOURETERAL REFLUX
   4. BLADDER AND URETHRA
   5. POSTERIOR URETHRAL VALVES
   6. BLADDER AND CLOACAL EXSTROPHY
   7. HYPOSPADIAS
   8. CIRCUMCISION
   9. Prune Belly Syndrome
   10. DIFFERENCES OF SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT
7. Section VII: NEOPLASMS
   1. PRINCIPLES OF ADJUVANT THERAPY IN CHILDHOOD CANCER
   2. RENAL TUMORS
   3. NEUROBLASTOMA
   4. LESIONS OF THE LIVER
   5. TERATOMAS, DERMOIDS, AND OTHER SOFT TISSUE TUMORS
   6. LYMPHOMAS
   7. Rhabdomyosarcoma
8. Section VIII: SKIN AND SOFT TISSUE DISEASES
   1. Nevus and Melanoma
   2. Vascular Anomalies
   3. HEAD AND NECK SINUSES AND MASSES
9. Section IX: SPECIAL TOPICS
   1. PEDIATRIC AND ADOLESCENT GYNECOLOGY
   2. BREAST DISEASES
   3. ENDOCRINE DISORDERS AND TUMORS
   4. Bariatric Surgical Procedures in Adolescence

Authors Biography

George W. Holcomb, III, MD, MBA, Katharine Berry Richardson Professor of Surgery, Senior Vice-President, The Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO, USA;

J. Patrick Murphy, MD, Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO, USA and

Shawn D. St Peter, MD, Surgeon-in-Chief, Thomas Holder and Keith Ashcraft Endowed Chair; Director, Pediatric Surgery Fellowship; Director, Center for Prospective Trials; Professor of Surgery, The Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO, USA