Pediatric Surgery : textbook for medical students

Abstract

In the textbook the essential parts of pediatric surgery, which are required for the training of general practitioners, are represented. The main attention is devoted to the clinical manifestation, diagnostics and algorithms of the treatment optimization for the most common and characteristic surgical pathology in childhood. The newest, up-to-date achievements in the surgery of malformations in children are illustrated. Novel advancing fields such as pediatric laparoscopy and fetal surgery are depicted briefly. The contents of the book correspond to the extent of the standard program on pediatric surgery for the higher medical institutes of III-IV levels of accreditation and recommended mainly for the foreign English-speaking medical students of 5-6th courses.