Symptoms and Signs in Pediatric Surgery
This concise textbook of pediatric surgery is designed to guide the reader logically from symptoms and signs to diagnosis and treatment. Each chapter is devoted to one of 35 key symptoms and signs, which are organized according to six body regions: head,
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Symptoms and Signs in Pediatric Surgery
Author Prof. em. Georges L. Kaiser University of Berne Department of Pediatric Surgery Inselspital Berne Switzerland
Originally published: Georges Kaiser: Leitsymptome in der Kinderchirurgie. © Verlag Hans Huber, 2005 ISBN 978-3-642-31160-4 ISBN 978-3-642-31161-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-31161-1 Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London
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Dedicated to my parents Otto and Angela Kaiser and to my wife Regine Kaiser-Schillig
Foreword
Pediatric surgery as a medical specialty is undeniably living a niche existence. This is generally reflected in university curriculums where the transmission of knowledge and skills in pediatric surgery plays only a minor role – understandable, given the immense width and depth of today’s medical knowledge. This marginalization of the young in need of surgery presents a problem for doctors’ advanced and continuing education and calls for growing a new generation of specialists in this field in order to secure knowledge, care, and scientific advancement. Let us not forget the persons directly concerned: newborns, young child
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