Overview
Offers clear guidance on the latest surgical approaches for a wide range of conditions
Pays special attention to innovative minimally invasive strategies
Includes numerous color figures that will help the reader to learn quickly
Provides advice on the general management of newborns and infants with surgical pathologies
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Table of contents (50 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Gastrointestinal
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Keywords
About this book
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mario Lima is Full Professor at the University of Bologna and Director of the Pediatric Surgery Unit at the “Policlinico S.Orsola-Malpighi” hospital of Bologna. He is Director of the Graduate School for Pediatric Surgery at the University of Bologna. Author of over 600 scientific publications and 38 monographs, he performed over 5000 surgical procedures as first operator. He is known internationally for the use of mini-invasive techniques in thorax, abdominal, genital and urinary surgery, both in neonates and children. He is past deputy Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Bologna, and past Dean of the integrated Department of children, adolescent and women’s health of the “Policlinico S. Orsola-Malpighi” and President of the Medical and Surgical Society in Bologna, Italy.
Olivier Reinberg, now retired, was Professor of Pediatric Surgery at the Department of Pediatric Surgery of the University and University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland. He was the head of the pediatric surgical emergencies from 1989 up to 2003. He has been a pioneer in pediatric minimal invasive surgery (MIS) since the beginning of the '90s, developing experience and practice in very small infants and newborns performing new procedures such as diaphragmatic plications (1997), esophageal atresia (1997), congenital diaphragmatic hernia (1998) and many other new procedures. He is also internationally known for his expertise in esophageal surgery with a personal experience of more than 300 esophageal replacements in children. He was involved in educational and surgical missions in Africa for more than 20 years. He is member of numerous scientific and medical organizations, Member of the French Academy of Surgery, and has been honored by numerous prices and University Distinctions, including several times the winner of the Medicine Teaching Awards by the medical students in Lausanne.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neonatal Surgery
Book Subtitle: Contemporary Strategies from Fetal Life to the First Year of Age
Editors: Mario Lima, Olivier Reinberg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93534-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93532-4Published: 03 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93534-8Published: 13 April 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 727
Number of Illustrations: 123 b/w illustrations, 277 illustrations in colour
Topics: Pediatric Surgery, Pediatrics