Trauma is the leading cause of death for children over 1 year of age. This study was
undertaken to identify the patterns of injury among children admitted to a regional pediatric …

Background/Purpose: The preferred treatment for children with major pancreatic ductal
injury remains controversial. This report compares our results using early operation with …

Importance While propranolol is touted as superior to prednisolone for treating infantile
hemangiomas (IH), a randomized clinical trial (RCT) comparing the outcome and tolerability …

Previous studies in miniature swine have suggested that the mechanism underlying the
spontaneous development of tolerance in one third of one-haplotype class I disparate renal …

Background/Purpose: Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) has a recognized role
in treatment of empyema thoracis. The purpose of this report is to show the value of initial …

Questions persist about the management of postoperative chylothorax in infants and
children. Our experience with postoperative chylothorax over the most recent decade (1980 …

Background A patient affected by blue rubber–bleb nevus syndrome had chronic
gastrointestinal bleeding requiring weekly blood transfusions. Despite multiple surgical and …

Prolonged preoperative fasting can be associated with adverse outcomes, particularly in
children. Our aims were to assess the time pediatric patients fasted prior to surgical or …

This study compared the postoperative pain relief provided by simple instillation of
bupivacaine into a hernia wound with that provided by ilioinguinal/iliohypogastric (IG/IH) …

Objective: To compare laparoscopic and traditional open splenectomy in children with
nonmalignant hematologic disorders. Study design: Retrospective review of 36 consecutive …