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Child Surgery

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Paediatric surgery; Pediatric surgery; Surgery in childhood

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Child surgery deals with all diseases of childhood, for which a surgical operation may contribute to therapy. Childhood comprises all humans from birth to 16 years of age and also includes fetuses and premature newborns (The European Pediatric Surgeons’ Association; The American Pediatric Surgical Association; World Federation of Associations of Pediatric Surgeons). While child surgery encloses diseases of all organs of the body and thus is the historical root of the discipline pediatric surgery, the latter nowadays concentrates in most countries on diseases of the inner organs and skeletomuscular system (Ashcraft et al. 2005; Oldham et al. 2005). Especially surgery of the heart, the eyes, the ears, and the brain concerning specialized operations in children have recently become subspecialties of the organ surgery specialties. Because of the relative rarity of many surgical diseases of childhood,...

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  • Ashcraft, K. W., Holcomb, G. W., & Murphy, J. P. (Eds.). (2005). Pediatric surgery (4th ed.). Philadelphia: Elsevier Saunders.

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  • Oldham, K. T., Colombani, P. M., Foglia, R. P., & Skinner, M. A. (Eds.). (2005). Principles and practice of pediatric surgery. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

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  • The American Pediatric Surgical Association. http://www.eapsa.org.

  • The European Pediatric Surgeons’ Association. http://www.eupsa.org.

  • von Schweinitz, D., & Ure, B. (Eds.). (2009). Kinderchirugie – Allgemeine und viszerale Chirurgie des Kindesalters. Heidelberg: Springer.

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  • World Federation of Associations of Pediatric Surgeons. http://www.wofaps.co.za.

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  1. Pediatric Surgical Clinic, Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital, University of Munich, Lindwurmstrasse 4, Muenchen, Germany

    Dietrich von Schweinitz M.D., Ph.D. (Professor of Pediatric Surgery, Director)

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  1. Department of Systematic Theology, Faculty of Theology, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Anne L. C. Runehov

  2. Pontificia Universita Antonianum, Roma, Italia

    Lluis Oviedo

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von Schweinitz, D. (2013). Child Surgery. In: Runehov, A.L.C., Oviedo, L. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8265-8_192

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