Principles and practice of pediatric surgery / Keith T. Oldham [et al.], editors ; Brian Brown, acquisition editor ; Michelle M. LaPlante, managing editor ; contributors E. Stanton Adkins [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Oldham, Keith T., editor.

Brown, Brian, editor.

LaPlante, Michelle M., editor.

Adkins, E. Stanton, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Surgery.

Children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1868 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Provides information on the diagnosis and treatment of all surgical diseases and injuries in infants and children. This title features coverage of each organ system, including sections on surgical oncology, the thorax, the abdomen, and trauma and on endocrine surgery, the breast, injury prevention, cell transplantation, and short bowel syndrome.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Editors""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Volume 1""; ""Section I Basic Considerations""; ""Part A Scientific Principles""; ""Chapter 1 Cell Structure and Function""; ""Chapter 2 Principles of Genetics""; ""Chapter 3 The Fetus as a Patient""; ""Chapter 4 Common Problems and Complications of Premature and Full-term Infants""; ""Chapter 5 Clinical Research and Evidence-based Pediatric Surgery""; ""Chapter 6 Fluids and Electrolytes""; ""Chapter 7 Nutrition Support in the Pediatric Surgical Patient""; ""Chapter 8 Metabolism""

""Chapter 9 Renal Physiology and Pathophysiology""; ""Chapter 10 Cardiopulmonary Critical Care and Shock""; ""Chapter 11 Respiratory Physiology and Extracorporeal Life Support""; ""Chapter 12 Wound Healing: Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms""; ""Chapter 13 Infection""; ""Chapter 14 Inflammation""; ""Chapter 15 Immunology and Immunodeficiencies""; ""Chapter 16 Blood""; ""Chapter 17 Pediatric Anesthesia, Pain Management, and Procedural Sedation""; ""Chapter 18 Surgical Problems of Children with Physical Disabilities""; ""Chapter 19 Medical Ethics and the Pediatric Surgeon""; ""Part B Trauma""

""Chapter 20 Approach to the Pediatric Trauma Patient""; ""Chapter 21 Injury Prevention""; ""Chapter 22 Head Injury and Intracranial Pressure Management""; ""Chapter 23 Facial Trauma""; ""Chapter 24 Pediatric Neck Trauma""; ""Chapter 25 Thoracic Trauma""; ""Chapter 26 Abdominal Trauma""; ""Chapter 27 Orthopedic Principles for Trauma""; ""Chapter 28 Vascular Trauma""; ""Chapter 29 Drowning and Hypothermia""; ""Chapter 30 Stings, Bites, and Poisonings""; ""Chapter 31 Burns""; ""Part C Oncology""; ""Chapter 32 Principles of Oncology""; ""Chapter 33 Oncogenesis""

""Chapter 34 Angiogenesis and Vascular Anomalies""; ""Chapter 35 Renal Tumors""; ""Chapter 36 Neuroblastoma""; ""Chapter 37 Rhabdomyosarcoma and Nonrhabdomyomatous Sarcomas""; ""Chapter 38 Liver Tumors""; ""Chapter 39 Leukemias and Lymphomas""; ""Chapter 40 Germ Cell Tumors""; ""Chapter 41 Breast""; ""Chapter 42 Adrenal Gland""; ""Chapter 43 Surgical Diseases of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands""; ""Chapter 44 Pancreas""; ""Chapter 45 Transplant Immunology and Clinical Immunosuppression""; ""Chapter 46 Organ Donation, Procurement, and Preservation""

""Chapter 47 Pediatric Renal Transplantation""; ""Chapter 48 Liver, Intestine, and Multivisceral Transplantation in Children""; ""Chapter 49 Heart and Lung""; ""Chapter 50 Bone Marrow Transplantation""; ""Chapter 51 Cell/Gene Transplant""; ""Section II Surgical Practice""; ""Part A Head and Neck""; ""Chapter 52 Ophthalmology""; ""Chapter 53 Craniofacial Anomalies""; ""Chapter 54 Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate""; ""Chapter 55 Otolaryngologic Disorders""; ""Chapter 56 Neck""; ""Part B Thorax""; ""Chapter 57 The Chest Wall""; ""Volume 2""; ""Section II Surgical Practice""; ""Part B Thorax"" ; ""Chapter 58 Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 9, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4698-8004-0

OCLC:

923530550