1. Pediatric appendicitis: state of the art review

   • Rebecca M. Rentea
   • Shawn D. St. Peter
   • Charles L. Snyder

   Review Article 14 October 2016 Pages: 269 - 283

   

2. Advances in understanding functional variations in the Hirschsprung disease spectrum (variant Hirschsprung disease)

   • S. W. Moore

   Review Article 17 December 2016 Pages: 285 - 298

   

3. Systematic review and need assessment of pediatric trauma outcome benchmarking tools for low-resource settings

   • Etienne St-Louis
   • Jade Séguin
   • Tarek Razek

   Review Article 21 November 2016 Pages: 299 - 309

   

4. Re-evaluation of liver transaminase cutoff for CT after pediatric blunt abdominal trauma

   • Jessica A. Zagory
   • Avafia Dossa
   • Christopher P. Gayer

   Original Article 23 November 2016 Pages: 311 - 316

   

5. Risk factors for postoperative mortality in congenital diaphragmatic hernia: a single-centre observational study

   • Darya Kadir
   • Helene Engstrand Lilja

   Original Article Open access 16 December 2016 Pages: 317 - 323

   

6. Laparoscopic versus open pyloromyotomy in infants: a systematic review and meta-analysis

   • Chethan Sathya
   • Carolyn Wayne
   • Ahmed Nasr

   Original Article 10 December 2016 Pages: 325 - 333

   

7. Agreement and reproducibility of radiological signs in NEC using The Duke Abdominal Assessment Scale (DAAS)

   • Karolina Markiet
   • Anna Szymanska-Dubowik
   • Agnieszka Bianek-Bodzak

   Original Article Open access 14 November 2016 Pages: 335 - 340

   

8. Regional block via continuous caudal infusion as sole anesthetic for inguinal hernia repair in conscious neonates

   • Claudia M. Mueller
   • Tiffany J. Sinclair
   • Noah Gordon

   Original Article 21 November 2016 Pages: 341 - 345

9. Ultrasound-guided core needle biopsy in the diagnosis of neuroblastic tumors in children: a retrospective study on 83 cases

   • Lihui Zhao
   • Jie Mu
   • Fenglin Zang

   Original Article 18 December 2016 Pages: 347 - 353

   

10. Disorders of sex development (DSD): not only babies with ambiguous genitalia. A practical guide for surgeons

    • Irene Kearsey
    • John M. Hutson

    Original Article 18 December 2016 Pages: 355 - 361

    

11. Outcomes following sclerotherapy for mucosal rectal prolapse with oily phenol injection: single-centre review

    • Rohini Sahay
    • Govind Murthi
    • Richard Lindley

    Original Article 17 December 2016 Pages: 363 - 365

    

12. Laparoscopic versus open inguinal hernia repair in children ≤3: a randomized controlled trial

    • Colin D. Gause
    • Maria G. Sacco Casamassima
    • Fizan Abdullah

    Original Article 26 December 2016 Pages: 367 - 376

    

13. Comparison of in vivo immune responses following transplantation of vascularized and non-vascularized human dermo-epidermal skin substitutes

    • Agnes S. Klar
    • Thomas Biedermann
    • Martin Meuli

    Original Article 20 December 2016 Pages: 377 - 382

    

14. Semaphorin 3A expression following intestinal ischemia/reperfusion injury in Sox10-Venus mice

    • Masahiro Takeda
    • Katsumi Miyahara
    • Atsuyuki Yamataka

    Original Article 24 December 2016 Pages: 383 - 388

    

15. Use of intraoperative lateral pelvic X-ray to localize and ensure coccyx removal during sacrococcygeal teratoma resection

    • Claire E. Graves
    • Olajire Idowu
    • Sunghoon Kim

    Technical Innovation 17 November 2016 Pages: 389 - 392

    

16. Urachal remnant presenting as a giant, cystic umbilical cord

    • Bryce Haac
    • Alejandro Garcia
    • James Moore

    Case Report 02 January 2017 Pages: 393 - 395