Endoscopic Surgery in Infants and Children (Hardcover, 2008)

Basics.- Why Endoscopic Surgery?.- Equipment and Instruments.- Robotics.- Future Technology.- Ergonomics of Task Performance in Endoscopic Surgery.- Training in Pediatric Endoscopic Surgery.- Physiologic Responses to Endoscopic Surgery.- Complications of Endoscopic Surgery in Infants and Children.- Neck.- Cervicoscopy, a Minimally Invasive Approach for the Thyroid, Parathyroid, and Thymus in Children.- Anesthesia for Pediatric Thoracoscopic Surgery.- Thoracoscopy in Infants and Children: Basic Techniques.- Implantation of a Nuss Bar Under Thoracoscopic Guidance.- Thoracoscopic Drainage and Debridement of Empyema.- The Thoracoscopic Approach to Pneumothorax in Children.- Thoracoscopic Lung Biopsy.- Thoracoscopic Lobectomy in Infants and Children.- Thoracoscopic Management of Esophageal Duplications, Bronchogenic Cysts, and Extralobar Sequestration.- The Role of Thoracoscopy for the Resection of Pulmonary Metastasis.- Thoracoscopy and Hydatid Cyst of the Lung.- Thoracoscopic Closure of Patent Ductus Arteriosus in Infants and Children.- Aortosternopexy for Tracheomalacia.- Thoracoscopic Venous Vascular Access.- Thoracoscopic Treatment of Palmar Hyperhidrosis.- Thoracoscopic Treatment of Chylothorax.- Video-assisted Thoracic Surgery for Thymectomy.- Thoracoscopic Removal of Neurogenic Mediastinal Tumors.- The Thoracoscopic Approach to Esophageal Atresia with Distal Fistula.- Thoracoscopic Repair of Esophageal Atresia without Fistula.- The Thoracoscopic Approach to H Type Tracheoesophageal Fistula.- Abdomen.- Anesthesia for Pediatric Laparoscopy.- The Basics of Laparoscopy.- Abdomen.- Esophageal Achalasia.- Laparoscopic Nissen Fundoplication.- Laparoscopic Fundoplication According to Toupet.- Laparoscopic Thal Fundoplication in Infants and Children.- Laparoscopic Gastrostomy.- Laparoscopic Pyloromyotomy.- Laparoscopic Jejunostomy.- Laparoscopic Treatment of Duodenal and Jejunal Atresia and Stenosis.- Intestinal Malrotation.- Laparoscopic Approach in Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction.- Laparoscopic Treatment of Meckel's Diverticulum.- Laparoscopic Approach to Intussusception.- Laparoscopic Treatment of Enteric Duplications and Other Abdominal Cystic Masses.- Laparoscopic Continent Appendicostomy in the Management of Fecal Incontinence and Constipation.- Laparoscopic Cecostomy and Sigmoidostomy Button.- Laparoscopic Appendectomy in Children.- Laparoscopic Management of Crohn's Disease.- Total Colectomy with J Pouch.- Hand-assisted Colectomy.- Endorectal Pull-through for Hirschsprung's Disease.- Laparoscopic-assisted Treatment of Hirschsprung's Disease According to Duhamel.- Laparoscopic Rectopexy.- Georgeson's Procedure: Laparoscopically Assisted Anorectoplasty for High Anorectal Malformations.- Laparoscopy in the Treatment of Female Infants with Anorectal Malformations.- Abdomen.- Laparoscopic Treatment of Hydatid Disease of the Liver.- Laparoscopic Liver Surgery.- Laparoscopic Kasai Portoenterostomy for Biliary Atresia.- Laparoscopic Excision of Choledochal Cyst with Hepaticojejunostomy.- Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy.- Abdomen.- Splenectomy.- Partial Splenectomies by Laparoscopy in Children.- Abdomen.- Laparoscopic Approaches to the Pancreas.- Laparoscopic Approach in Persistent Hyperinsulinemic Hypoglycemia in Infancy.- Abdomen.- Laparoscopy and Ventriculoperitoneal Shunts.- Endoscopic Surgery for Peritoneal Dialysis Catheters in Children.- Abdomen.- Abdominal Trauma.- Abdomen.- Laparoscopy for Pediatric Abdominal Malignancies.- Abdomen.- Chronic Abdominal Pain of Childhood.- Abdomen.- Laparoscopic Approach to Sacrococcygeal Teratomas.- Abdomen.- Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding in Adolescents.- Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass: Principles and Procedures.- Diaphragm.- Laparoscopic Treatment of Morgagni-Larrey Diaphragmatic Hernia.- Thoracoscopy for Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia.- Laparoscopic Repair of Diaphragmatic Defects: Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (of Bochdalek) and Eventration.- Abdominal Wall.- Laparosc