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Laparoscopic surgery for lumbar hernia in children

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📅 Aug 17, 2025 articles
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Aggressive enema and surgery for meconium-related ileus in extremely low-birth-weight infants

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📅 Aug 17, 2025 articles
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Advancing global surgical care: Children’s National colorectal team at PAPSA 2025

Held only once every 2 years, the PAPSA meeting draws more than 300 pediatric surgeons from across Africa, making it the continent’s most...

📅 Aug 15, 2025 articles
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Colorectal care across borders: expanding access through global collaboration

Members of the Division of Colorectal & Pelvic Reconstruction at Children’s National Hospital recently traveled to Sao Paulo, Brazil, with the...

1 listens 📅 Aug 15, 2025 articles
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A Comparative Study of the Clinical Characteristics of Esophageal-Pulmonary Fistula in Children

Esophageal-pulmonary fistula (EPF) is a rare complication after esophageal surgery, especially following esophageal atresia/tracheoesophageal...

📅 Aug 17, 2025 articles
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Feasibility and effectiveness of transumbilical single-site laparoscopic pyeloplasty for unilateral UPJO in infants

We aimed to investigate the efficacy and safety of transumbilical single -site laparoscopic pyeloplasty for treating infants aged less than 12...

📅 Sep 24, 2025 articles
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Long-term outcomes of robotic-assisted laparoscopic pyeloplasty for unilateral ureteropelvic junction obstruction in infants

This study aims to assess the long-term outcomes of robotic-assisted laparoscopic pyeloplasty (RALP) for the treatment of ureteropelvic junction...

📅 Aug 27, 2025 articles
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Advancing pediatric neurogenic bladder assessment: The clinical promise of detrusor pressure curve indices

We read with interest Costa–Roig et al.‘s study on detrusor pressure curve area indices (Simpson [SI], Trapezoidal [TI]) in pediatric neurogenic...

📅 Aug 14, 2025 articles
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Pneumovesicoscopic treatment of subvesical obstructing ectopic ureteroceles in newborns, infants and children

Safe initial surgery is crucial in treating ectopic ureteroceles that cause subvesical obstruction. This study evaluates the feasibility and...

📅 Sep 24, 2025 articles
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Eight years of expertise with the sandwich technique for asymmetric pectus carinatum and excavatum-carinatum complex

The Sandwich technique is a novel approach for managing pectus carinatum and the excavatum–carinatum complex. Although first described in 2016,...

📅 Aug 14, 2025 articles
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Robotic-assisted patent ductus arteriosus ligation in children

There is limited experience of robotic-assisted surgery for patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) treatment in children. In the present study, we update...

📅 Aug 16, 2025 articles
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Assessing process measures and practice variability in pediatric esophageal button battery cases: A multi-institutional cohort study

Esophageal button battery (BB) is a rare, time-sensitive pediatric emergency with potential for severe morbidity and mortality. This study uses...

📅 Sep 25, 2025 articles
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Work relative value units and the association with operative time and surgical complexity: A pediatric NSQIP analysis

In the United States, physician compensation for surgical procedures is largely based on Current Procedural Terminology (CPT)-specific work...

📅 Nov 07, 2025 articles
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Association of socioeconomic status with development and severity of necrotizing enterocolitis

Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) commonly afflicts premature infants. Prematurity is associated with lower socioeconomic status (SES); however, it...

📅 Nov 07, 2025 articles
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Meconium-Related Obstruction: Contemporary Experience in a Multi-Institutional Consortium

Neonatal bowel obstruction secondary to inspissated meconium has been historically associated with cystic fibrosis. Increasingly, meconium-related...

📅 Nov 06, 2025 articles
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Failure to launch: Pediatric colorectal surgery center utilization by patients over 18 years of age

As patients with childhood colorectal diseases transition into adulthood, many continue to seek care at pediatric colorectal centers rather than...

📅 Sep 24, 2025 articles
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Effects of gabapentin following minimally invasive repair of pectus excavatum with intercostal nerve cryoablation (MIRPE-INC)

Gabapentin is used for treating postoperative pain and preventing neuropathic pain. We aimed to examine the effects of gabapentin on opioid use...

📅 Sep 25, 2025 articles
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Identifying disparities in same-day surgery cancellations: Impact of race and socioeconomic factors in a pediatric health system

Same-day surgery (SDS) cancellations have significant implications on patients and hospitals. This study aimed to identify demographic and...

📅 Nov 06, 2025 articles
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A Pervasive Problem: Surgical Wound Class Miscoding in Pediatric Laparoscopic Appendectomy

Surgical wound classification (SWC) is one factor contributing to the likelihood of surgical site infection (SSIs). This results in SWC being an...

📅 Aug 13, 2025 articles
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Laparoscopic stapled anastomosis for duodenal atresia: Superior efficiency compared to hand-sewn techniques

At our institution, repair of congenital duodenal obstruction has been performed via three techniques: open hand-sewn anastomosis (OHSA),...

📅 Nov 05, 2025 articles
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Combat-Related Genitourinary Trauma in Pediatric Patients: Data From the Department of Defense Trauma Registry

Deploying surgeons frequently train, prepare, and bring equipment to manage adult trauma patients without sufficient planning and consideration...

📅 Aug 13, 2025 articles
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Hepatic ductoplasty to widen the hepaticojejunostomy in the single-site laparoscopic resection of choledochal cyst in children

To report our technique and outcomes of trans-umbilical laparoscopic single-site surgery (TULSS) with hepatic ductoplasty (HPD) to widen the...

📅 Nov 03, 2025 articles
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Laparoscopic versus open choledochal cyst excision focusing on postoperative complications: A retrospective outcomes study from Kyushu Pediatric Surgery Study Group in Japan

Laparoscopic surgery (LS) for choledochal cyst (CC) is now performed at many institutions. This study aimed to compare LS and open surgery (OS)...

📅 Oct 08, 2025 articles
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Integrating Sustainable Global Engagement Into Your Academic Pediatric Surgical Practice

Pediatric surgeons and pediatric surgical societies are increasingly engaging in global surgery [1]. This article describes the panel “Integrating...

📅 Aug 14, 2025 articles
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Single-incision laparoscopic endorectal pull-through for Hirschsprung's disease in neonates: A prospective study on medium-term outcomes

Single-incision laparoscopic endorectal pull-through (SILEP) has gained attention as a minimally invasive alternative to conventional laparoscopic...

📅 Nov 04, 2025 articles
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Letter to the Editor response to “Low plasma sodium concentration as a predictor of perforated acute appendicitis in children: A retrospective study in a low-middle income country setting le Roux H, Lindestam U, Lönnqvist PA, Svensson JF, Almström M, Ande

We read with great interest the article titled “Low Plasma Sodium Concentration as a Predictor of Perforated Acute Appendicitis in Children: A...

📅 Aug 13, 2025 articles
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The scope of vascular surgery expertise in pediatric surgery: A survey of division chiefs at United States children's hospitals

Pediatric vascular diseases comprise a spectrum of acquired and congenital diagnoses; treatment is variable. Changing training paradigms have...

📅 Nov 10, 2025 articles
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Comment on ‘Lymphangioma Circumscriptum of the tongue in paediatric patients’

I read with great interest the article by Limongelli et al. titled “Lymphangioma Circumscriptum of the tongue in paediatric patients” (J Pediatr...

📅 Aug 12, 2025 articles
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Management of Pediatric Traumatic Hemothorax and Volume Threshold for Chest Tube Placement: Multicenter Pediatric Trauma Center Retrospective Analysis

vAdult trauma literature indicates hemothorax volume >300 mL requires thoracic drainage. Due to a paucity of pediatric literature, we aim to...

📅 Aug 12, 2025 articles
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Critical shock index, pediatric age-adjusted as a predictive statistic for ICU admission in pediatric trauma

Shock Index (SI), the ratio of heart rate (HEART RATE) to systolic blood pressure (SBP), has been described as a trauma index capable of...

📅 Nov 08, 2025 articles
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Patterns of practice, research, and engagement in the first 10 years of practice: A survey of APSA early career pediatric surgeons

The APSA Board of Governors Early Career Representative sought to better understand the experiences, engagement, and challenges experienced by...

📅 Nov 17, 2025 articles
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Quantifying the impact of congenital cardiac co-morbidities on anorectal malformations

Anorectal malformations (ARM) are frequently associated with congenital heart defects (CHD) (prevalence 10–40 %). Cardiac ARM patients,...

📅 Aug 13, 2025 articles
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Switching lanes: No home antibiotics or laboratory testing prior to discharge in perforated appendicitis

Appendicitis is the most common surgical emergency in children with approximately 30 % of patients presenting with perforation, defined as a hole...

📅 Aug 12, 2025 articles
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Development of the pediatric Crotalid envenomation score guideline and its influence on resource utilization

Pediatric crotalid snakebites cause serious morbidity. Current management is not tailored for pediatric patients and involves costly intensive...

📅 Nov 13, 2025 articles
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Improved mortality in gastroschisis patients after implementation of a standardized management bundle in central Malawi: A single-center follow-up at four years

Gastroschisis is a congenital anomaly with >90 % survival in high-income countries. Despite advances in neonatal care, survival remains below 20 %...

📅 Nov 18, 2025 articles
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Journal of Pediatric Surgery Article Review: 2nd Quarter (Apr-Jun) 2025

We are back with another episode of our Journal of Pediatric Surgery article review podcast. This time we have three publications from the second...

4 listens 📅 Aug 11, 2025 podcasts
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