A Color Atlas of Minimal Access Surgery in Children Sanjay Oak, Prakash Agarwal, Sandesh V Parelkar
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1A Color Atlas of Minimal Access Surgery in Children
2A Color Atlas of Minimal Access Surgery in Children
Editors Sanjay Oak MS MCh MNAMS DNBE FACS FICS FAIS DHRM DHA LLB(Gen) PGDMLS Professor and Head Sandesh V Parelkar MS MCh Associate Professor Prakash Agarwal MS MCh DNBE (Pediatric Surgery) Lecturer Department of Pediatric Surgery TN Medical College and BYL Nair Hospital Mumbai Foreword by Prof Thom E Lobe
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A Color Atlas of Minimal Access Surgery in Children
© 2005, Sanjay Oak, Sandesh V Parelkar, Prakash Agarwal
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dedicated
to
our tiny, little patients who taught us-
to do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way;
to do some things better than they were ever done before;
to eliminate errors;
to know both the sides of the problem;
to be dexterous;
to be an example;
to work for the love of work;
to anticipate requirements;
to develop resources;
to recognize no impediments;
to master circumstances;
to act from reason rather than rule;
to be satisfied with nothing short of perfection and excellence.
5List of Contributors 7Foreword
It is an honor to be asked to write an introduction to such an important project as this is. And, I do it with great pleasure, as there are few things dearer to me than to further worldwide knowledge and interest in pediatric endosurgery.
The concept, a pictorial representation of many of our simple and more advanced pediatric endoscopic surgical cases provides the viewer with a rare glimpse into our world, as shown by many experts from around the globe. With this project the novice and experienced pediatric surgeon, alike, can enhance their exposure to cases performed by experts in the field.
This project has been carried out with a vision toward the bright future of endoscopic surgery in children. It wasn't so very long ago that we, those of us who saw the many benefits of laparoscopy and thoracoscopy in children were ridiculed and labeled dabblers and gadgeteers. Now, laparoscopic and thoracoscopic procedures in children are commonplace and performed worldwide. For those of us who saw the many benefits of performing endoscopic surgery in children, including: Less pain, a better postoperative appearance and quicker return to unrestricted activities, we are gratified to see that we were onto a good thing.
I know that you will enjoy this work, and will be able to use the contents herein to continue to benefit children around the world.
Prof Thom E Lobe md
Memphis, TN
USA
8From the Editors' Desk
It is indeed a matter of pride for us to come out with this new title “A Color Atlas of Minimal Access Surgery in Children” in the latter half of 2004. Needless to say that this is following on the footprints of our earlier Atlas released in January, 2003 by Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd. Acquisition of a xenon light source, better quality wide angle telescopes and miniaturizing hand instruments to 2 mm made us possible to come out with this new title. Not only did our indications increase, but also our age at surgery decreased. We became more familiar with pediatric thoracoscopic procedures and innovative ideas for lung biopsies came to our mind. In a country where suppurative lung diseases are widely prevalent, primary VATS should be the preferred modality of management of empyema and we have amply stressed this aspect in this book. We also employed MAS techniques to newborns and feel at present that a thoracoscopic approach works better in congenital diaphragmatic hernia in the neonatal age group. Needless to say that our anesthesia colleagues also updated their monitoring equipments and refined their skills to keep pace with the surgical advances.
I thank enormously my colleagues from various countries - Thom E Lobe (USA), Felix Schier (Germany), Pascal de Laguise (France), Martin Koyle (USA), Akira Satomi (Japan), Jean-Stephane Valla (France), Haluk Guvenc (Turkey), George W Holcomb III (USA) and Ralph Cohen (Australia) who not only sent beautiful images, but also magnanimously permitted us to put them into this publication. A special thanks to my postgraduate student Dr Naveen Viswanath, who did a splendid job of putting the pictures together. The work could not have been completed without the unflinching support and stimulus from Shri Jitendar P Vij, Chairman and Managing Director, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd.
Fellow colleagues, this is certainly not the last word in Pediatric Laparoscopic Surgery. This is just the beginning, Minimal Access Surgery in Children has come to stay. It is upto us to accept, assimilate and adapt to its challenges. “A battalion of army can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come”.
Sanjay Oak
Sandesh V Parelkar
Prakash Agarwal