Current Issue January 2012, Vol. 47, No. 1

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Papers Presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the American Pediatric Surgical Association, Palm Desert, CA, May 22-25, 2011

Presidential Address

  • Health care quality, access, cost, workforce, and surgical education: the ultimate perfect storm
    January 2012(Vol. 47 | No. 1 | Pages 1-9)

    Marshall Z. Schwartz

Robert E. Gross Lecture

  • Notes on the early development of pediatric surgery in the United States
    January 2012(Vol. 47 | No. 1 | Pages 10-16)

    Judson G. Randolph

Jay and Margie Grosfeld Lecture

  • Controversies concerning diagnostic guidelines for anomalies of the enteric nervous system: A report from the fourth International Symposium on Hirschsprung's disease and related neurocristopathies
    October 2005 (Vol. 40 | No. 10 | Pages 1527-1531)

    Giuseppe Martucciello, Alessio Pini Prato, Prem Puri, Alexander M. Holschneider, William Meier-Ruge, Vincenzo Jasonni, Juan A. Tovar, Jay L. Grosfeld

  • Is interval appendicectomy justified after successful nonoperative treatment of an appendix mass in children? A systematic review
    April 2011 (Vol. 46 | No. 4 | Pages 767-771)

    Nigel J. Hall, Ceri E. Jones, Simon Eaton, Michael P. Stanton, David M. Burge

  • Early developmental outcome of infants with infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis
    December 2010 (Vol. 45 | No. 12 | Pages 2369-2372)

    Karen Walker, Robert Halliday, Andrew J.A. Holland, Caroline Karskens, Nadia Badawi

  • Institutional practice and outcome variation in the management of congenital diaphragmatic hernia and gastroschisis in Canada: a report from the Canadian Pediatric Surgery Network
    May 2011 (Vol. 46 | No. 5 | Pages 801-807)

    Robert Baird, Gareth Eeson, Arash Safavi, Pramod Puligandla, Jean-Martin Laberge, Erik D. Skarsgard, Canadian Pediatric Surgery Network

  • Prophylactic appendectomy: unnecessary in children with incidental appendicoliths detected by computed tomographic scan
    December 2010 (Vol. 45 | No. 12 | Pages 2377-2380)

    Michael D. Rollins, William Andolsek, Eric R. Scaife, Rebecka L. Meyers, Tonya H. Duke, Michael Lilyquist, Douglas C. Barnhart

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Journal of Pediatric Surgery presents original contributions as well as a complete international abstracts section and other special departments to provide the most current source of information and references in pediatric surgery. The journal is based on the need to improve the surgical care of infants and children, not only through advances in physiology, pathology and surgical techniques, but also by attention to the unique emotional and physical needs of the young patient.

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Journal of Pediatric Surgery is published by Elsevier for Section on Surgery of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons, the American Pediatric Surgical Association, Canadian Association of Paediatric Surgeons, and the Pacific Association of Pediatric Surgeons.


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The American Pediatric Surgical Association (APSA) is a surgical specialty organization composed of individuals who have dedicated themselves to the care of the pediatric surgical patient.

The British Association of Paediatric Surgeons (BAPS) was founded in 1953. Its objects are the advancement of study, practice and research in paediatric surgery to cultivate professional relations with paediatric surgeons overseas.

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