Abdominal Trauma
Abdominal trauma is common in children with majority occurring due to blunt injuries. The spleen and liver are the most commonly injured solid organs following blunt traumatic injury. Prompt and thorough clinical evaluation is of utmost importance to prev
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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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