Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Plastic and reconstructive surgery remains among the least developed surgical specialties in Africa. Because of the lack of or shortage in plastic surgeons and the overwhelming demand for this service, general surgeons and the few pediatric surgeons provi

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Pediatric Surgery

Emmanuel A. Ameh  •  Stephen W. Bickler  •  Kokila Lakhoo Benedict C. Nwomeh  •  Dan Poenaru Editors

Pediatric Surgery A Comprehensive Textbook for Africa Second Edition

Editors

Emmanuel A. Ameh Division of Pediatric Surgery Department of Surgery, National Hospital Abuja, Nigeria Kokila Lakhoo Department of Pediatric Surgery University of Oxford Oxford, United Kingdom Dan Poenaru Department of Pediatric Surgery Montreal Children’s Hospital Montreal, Québec Canada

Stephen W. Bickler Professor of Surgery & Pediatrics Rady Children’s Hospital, University of California San Diego San Diego, CA USA Benedict C. Nwomeh Department of Pediatric Surgery Nationwide Children’s Hospital, and Department of Surgery, Ohio State University, Colombus, Ohio USA

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Associate Editors Abdelbasit E. Ali  Department of Pediatric Surgery, King Saud Medical City, Riyadh, KSA Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan Merrill McHoney  Department of Pediatric Surgery, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, UK Doruk Ozgediz  Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA Justina O. Seyi-Olajide  Pediatric Surgery Unit, Department of Surgery, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria

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Contents Volume I I

Basic Principles

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Pediatric Surgery Specialty an