Pediatric surgery (sometimes spelt paediatric surgery) is a subspecialty of surgery involving the surgery of fetuses, infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. Many pediatric surgeons practice at children's hospitals.

Pediatric surgeons have completed a general surgery residency (medicine), then complete two more years of subspecialty fellowship training before they are eligible to take the board examination for official subspecialty certification. In the United States and Canada, approximately 35 surgeons complete training as pediatric surgeons each year.

Pediatric surgery arose in the middle of the 20th century as the surgical care of birth defects required novel techniques and methods and became more commonly based at children's hospitals. One of the sites of this innovation was Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Beginning in the 1940s under the surgical leadershp of C. Everett Koop, newer techniques for endotracheal anesthesia of infants allowed surgical repair of previously untreatable birth defects. By the late 1970s, the infant death rate from several major congenital malformation syndromes had been reduced to near zero.

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AV canal defect...Apollo cardiac specialists perform complicated ... - India Infoline.com
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:26:06 -0000
AV canal defect...Apollo cardiac specialists perform complicated ...India Infoline.comThe department of Pediatric Surgery and Pediatric Urology carries out various procedures on children and neonates including laparoscopic surgery. ...and more »
Hospital opens new children's surgery center - The State
Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:02:03 -0000
Hospital opens new children's surgery centerThe StateThe hospital held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday to commemorate the opening of its Pediatric Surgery Center. The center includes 13 outpatient surgery ...and more »
Warner receives professorship named for Washington University's ... - News from Washington University in St. Louis
Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:45:10 -0000
Warner receives professorship named for Washington University's ...News from Washington University in St. LouisA nationally recognized pediatric surgeon, she was the first woman surgical resident and first woman chief resident in surgery at Barnes Hospital, ...and more »
Pediatric surgeon spends $1.2M in Henderson - Blockshopper
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:04:19 -0000
BlockshopperPediatric surgeon spends $1.2M in HendersonBlockshopperDr. Scheidler is pediatric surgeon at the Center for Children's Surgery in Las Vegas. He earned both his BS and MS degrees from the University of Pittsburgh ...and more »
Air Astana Cares for a Healthy Heart - e-Travel Blackboard (press release)
Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:49:27 -0000
Air Astana Cares for a Healthy Hearte-Travel Blackboard (press release)From 16th to 18th June 2009, Air Astana held a charity programme at the Science Center of Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery, Almaty. ...and more »
Lutheran Hospital Awarded Level II Trauma Certification - Indiana's NewsCenter
Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:23:40 -0000
WANELutheran Hospital Awarded Level II Trauma CertificationIndiana's NewsCenterTo be approved for the designation, Lutheran had to hire a trauma medical director and a medical director who's board-certified in pediatric surgery. ...TMH officially becomes Level II trauma centerTallahassee Democratall 9 news articles »

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Letter to the Editor.
Zijlstra IA, van Rijn RR Letter to the Editor. J Pediatr Surg. 2009 Jul;44(7):1476 Authors: Zijlstra IA, van Rijn RR PMID: 19573686 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Reply to Letter to the Editor.
Lee SL, Shekherdimian S, Sydorak RM, Applebaum H Reply to Letter to the Editor. J Pediatr Surg. 2009 Jul;44(7):1476-1477 Authors: Lee SL, Shekherdimian S, Sydorak RM, Applebaum H PMID: 19573685 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
RE: Response to Letter to the Editor by Campos et al.
Ladd AP, Kumar HR, Jester AL RE: Response to Letter to the Editor by Campos et al. J Pediatr Surg. 2009 Jul;44(7):1475-1476 Authors: Ladd AP, Kumar HR, Jester AL PMID: 19573684 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Omphalocele: how big does it have to be a giant one?
Campos BA, Tatsuo ES, Miranda ME Omphalocele: how big does it have to be a giant one? J Pediatr Surg. 2009 Jul;44(7):1474-1475 Authors: Campos BA, Tatsuo ES, Miranda ME PMID: 19573683 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
A new technique to remove a "stuck" totally implantable venous access catheter.
Huang SC, Tsai MS, Lai HS A new technique to remove a "stuck" totally implantable venous access catheter. J Pediatr Surg. 2009 Jul;44(7):1465-1467 Authors: Huang SC, Tsai MS, Lai HS Removal of a totally implantable venous access device (port) is usually a simple procedure; however, if a catheter has been in place for a very long period, it may adhere firmly to the vessel wall. We report a new technique to facilitate removal of a stuck catheter. A 16-year-old girl was admitted for removal of her port, which had been inserted for chemotherapy 11 years earlier. After her disease was controlled, the catheter could not be pulled out during surgery. To remove the catheter, we inserted a guidewire to straighten the catheter and then applied a "push-in" force to detach the adherence from the central vein. The catheter was then removed successfully. We believe that this is a new and simple method for removing a "stuck" catheter. PMID: 19573682 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Ileal duplication cyst: Y-configuration on in vivo sonography.
Kim YJ, Kim YK, Jeong YJ, Moon WS, Gwak HJ Ileal duplication cyst: Y-configuration on in vivo sonography. J Pediatr Surg. 2009 Jul;44(7):1462-1464 Authors: Kim YJ, Kim YK, Jeong YJ, Moon WS, Gwak HJ Although the double wall or muscular rim sign is considered to be a characteristic sonographic imaging finding of an enteric duplication cyst, this sign can also be produced by Meckel's diverticulum and sonographic artifacts. The Y-configuration on in vitro sonography has been reported to be useful for the definitive diagnosis of an enteric duplication cyst. Here, we report a case of an intraoperatively confirmed ileal duplication cyst that was correctly diagnosed before by identification of the Y-configuration on in vivo sonography. PMID: 19573681 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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