Pediatric Surgery: A Comprehensive Textbook for Africa

Description:

The second, fully updated edition of this book applies and contextualizes up-to-date information on pediatric surgery for low and middle-income countries (LMICs). The book is organized in general anatomic and thematic sections within pediatric surgery, such as urology, oncology, orthopedics and gastroenterology and includes chapters addressing the unique challenges and approaches for pediatric surgery in low-resource settings. Each chapter has dual authorship LMIC author providing context-specific insights and authors from high-income countries (HICs) contributing experience from well-resourced settings. Written in a reader-friendly format, this book has a uniform structure in each chapter, with introduction, demographics, etiology, pathophysiology, clinical presentations, investigations, management, outcome, prevention, ethics, evidence-based surgery and references. This comprehensive volume fills the gap between up-to-date pediatric surgical scholarship and knowledge developed and applied in HICs, and the practical needs of practitioners in low-resource settings. This is an indispensable guide for postgraduate surgical trainees in Africa and other LMICs as well as general surgeons practicing in Africa and other LMICs, who need to care surgically for children.

Table of Contents:

I. Basic Principles

1. Pediatric Surgery Specialty and Its Relevance to Africa

2. Neonatal Physiology and Transport

3. Respiratory Physiology and Support

4. Cardiovascular Physiology and Support

5. Fluids and Electrolyte Therapy in the Pediatric Surgical Patient

6. Nutrition Support

7. Haemoglobinopathies

8. Wound Healing

9. Vascular Access in Children

10. Anaesthesia and Perioperative Care

11. Pain Management

12. Intensive Care

13. Ethics of Pediatric Surgery in Africa

14. Psychological Issues in Pediatric Surgery

II. Surgical Infections and Infestations

15. Common Bacterial Infections of Surgical Importance

16. Surgical Site Infection

17. Surgical Complications of Typhoid Fever

18. Tuberculosis

19. Pyomyositis

20. Omphalitis

21. Necrotizing Fasciitis

22. Hematogenous Osteomyelitis and Septic Arthritis

23. Parasitic Infestation of Surgical Importance in Children

24. HIV/AIDS and the Pediatric Surgeon

III. Trauma

25. Pediatric Trauma: Epidemiology, Prevention, and Control

26. Pediatric Injury Scoring and Trauma Registry

27. Initial Assessment and Resuscitation of the Trauma Patient

28. Thoracic Trauma

29. Abdominal Trauma

30. Craniocerebral and Spinal Trauma

31. Urogenital and Perineal Trauma

32. Musculoskeletal Trauma

33. Burns

34. Injuries from Child Abuse

35. Birth Injuries

IV. Head and Neck

36. Neck: Cysts, Sinuses, and Fistulas

37. Lymphadenopathy in African Children

38. Sternomastoid Tumour of Infancy and Congenital Muscular Torticollis

39. Salivary Gland Diseases in Children and Adolescents

40. Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands

V. Thorax

41. Laryngoscopy, Bronchoscopy and Oesophagoscopy

42. Pediatric Upper Airway Obstruction

43. Tracheomalacia

44. Congenital Cystic Lung Lesions

45. Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia and Diaphragmatic Eventration

46. Pleural Effusion and Empyema

47. Lung Abscess

48. Oesophageal Atresia

49. Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux Disease

50. Achalasia

51. Corrosive Ingestion and Esophageal Replacement

52. Aerodigestive Foreign Bodies in Children

53. Chest Wall Deformities

54. Mediastinal Masses

55. Chylothorax

VI. Abdominal Wall

56. Exomphalos and Gastroschisis

57. Disorders of the Umbilicus

58. Inguinal and Femoral Hernias and Hydroceles

VII. Stomach, Duodenum, and Small Intestines

59. Infantile Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis

60. Peptic Ulcer Disease in Children

61. Neonatal Intestinal Obstruction

62. Duodenal Atresia and Stenosis

63. Intestinal Atresia and Stenosis

64. Vitelline Duct Anomalies

65. Intestinal Malrotation and Midgut Volvulus

66. Gastrointestinal Duplications

67. Meconium Ileus

68. Intussusception

69. Miscellaneous Causes of Intestinal Obstruction

70. Necrotizing Enterocolitis

71. Short Bowel Syndrome

72. Gastrointestinal Stomas in Children

VIII. Colon, Rectum, and Anus

73. Colonic Atresia

74. Appendicitis

75. Inflammatory Bowel Disease

76. Hirschsprung’s Disease

77. Anorectal Malformations

78. Polyps

79. Other Anorectal Conditions

IX. Hepatobiliary System, Pancreas, and Spleen

80. Obstructive Jaundice

81. Biliary Atresia

82. Choledochal Cyst

83. Cholelithiasis (Gallstones)

84. Annular Pancreas

85. Pancreatitis

86. Spleen

87. Portal Hypertension

X. Pediatric Urology

88. Cystic Diseases of the Kidney

89. Congenital Ureteropelvic Junction Stenosis

90. Ureteric Duplications and Ureterocoeles

91. Vesicoureteric Reflux

92. Bladder Exstrophy and Epispadias Complex

93. Posterior Urethral Valves

94. Hypospadias

95. Male Circumcision

96. Phimosis, Meatal Stenosis and Paraphimosis

97. Urolithiasis

98. Undescended Testis

99. Disorders of Sex Development

100. Bladder Outlet Obstruction

101. Acute Scrotum

102. Prune Belly Syndrome

XI. Tumours

103. Kidney Tumours

104. Teratomas

105. Lymphoma and the Pediatric Surgeon

106. Neuroblastoma

107. Malignant Soft Tissue Tumors

108. Liver Tumours: The African Perspective

109. Primary Bone Tumours

110. Brain and Spinal Cord Tumours

XII. Vascular System

111. Lymphangiomas

112. Haemangiomas

113. Arteriovenous Malformations

114. Unilateral Limb Enlargement

XIII. Pediatric Gynecology

115. Hydrometrocolpos

116. Müllerian Duct Anomalies

117. Labial Adhesions/Agglutination

118. Ovarian Lesions

XIV. Surgical Rehabilitation

119. Disability and Rehabilitation: General Concepts

120. Neurodisability

121. Common Pediatric Orthopaedic Diseases

122. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

123. Pediatric Burn Surgery

XV. Special Topics

124. Minimal Access Surgery in Pediatric Patients

125. Prenatal Diagnosis and Fetal Therapy

126. Conjoined and Parasitic Twins

127. Otorhinolaryngology

128. Pediatric Transplantation

129. Pediatric Surgery Education in Sub-Saharan Africa