Access the accompanying videos for this chapter online. Available on ExpertConsult.com. Management of anterior and middle mediastinal masses in children often depends on obtaining tissue for diagnosis. Conversely, most posterior…
Access the accompanying videos for this chapter online. Available on ExpertConsult.com . Empyema thoracis is a collection of inflammatory fluid in the thoracic cavity. It usually arises as a complication…
Access the accompanying videos for this chapter online. Available on ExpertConsult.com . Indications for Workup and Operation Thoracoscopy is now the preferred approach for the operative treatment of primary spontaneous…
Access the accompanying videos for this chapter online. Available on ExpertConsult.com . Thoracoscopy was first described in the early 1900s, and by the mid-1990s, thoracoscopic lung biopsy had become accepted…
This chapter discusses the minimally invasive repair of a Bochdalek (posterolateral) congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) and an anterior Morgagni diaphragmatic hernia. Bochdalek Diaphragmatic Hernia Bochdalek hernias develop in early gestation…
Access the accompanying videos for this chapter online. Available on ExpertConsult.com . The need to obtain diagnostic lung tissue occurs often in infants and children. Disease processes such as interstitial…
Access the accompanying videos for this chapter online. Available on ExpertConsult.com . The use of laparoscopy in pediatric urology has evolved over the past 30 years. Beginning in the 1980s,…
Although thoracoscopy was first described in the early 1900s, the minimally invasive approach to thoracic conditions has undergone an exponential increase in popularity and growth over the last two decades….
Vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) is one of the most common urological problems in infants and young children, resulting from an incompetent ureterovesical junction (UVJ) that allows abnormal retrograde flow of urine…
Access the accompanying videos for this chapter online. Available on ExpertConsult.com . The basic principles of the posterior sagittal anorectoplasty (PSARP) for the repair of anorectal malformations (ARMs) hold true…
