1. The 33rd international symposium on pediatric surgical research

   • Prem Puri

   Editorial 19 January 2021 Pages: 299 - 299

2. Administration of extracellular vesicles derived from human amniotic fluid stem cells: a new treatment for necrotizing enterocolitis

   • Joshua S. O’Connell
   • Carol Lee
   • Agostino Pierro

   Original Article 10 February 2021 Pages: 301 - 309

   

3. Fetal surgery for spina bifida in Zurich: results from 150 cases

   • Ueli Moehrlen
   • Nicole Ochsenbein
   • Martin Meuli

   Original Article 12 January 2021 Pages: 311 - 316

4. Paediatric gastric organoids as a tool for disease modelling and clinical translation

   • Brendan C. Jones
   • Giuseppe Calà
   • Giovanni Giuseppe Giobbe

   Original Article Open access 25 January 2021 Pages: 317 - 324

   

5. Hepatic oxidative injury: role of mitochondrial dysfunction in necrotizing enterocolitis

   • Edoardo Bindi
   • Mashriq Alganabi
   • Agostino Pierro

   Original Article 06 February 2021 Pages: 325 - 332

   

6. Remote ischemic conditioning avoids the development of intestinal damage after ischemia reperfusion by reducing intestinal inflammation and increasing intestinal regeneration

   • Haitao Zhu
   • Bo Li
   • Agostino Pierro

   Original Article 08 February 2021 Pages: 333 - 337

   

7. The impact of early and successful orchidopexy on hormonal follow-up for 208 boys with bilateral non-syndromic cryptorchidism

   • Simone Hildorf
   • Dina Cortes
   • Jorgen Thorup

   Original Article 09 January 2021 Pages: 339 - 345

   

8. Doppler ultrasound assessment of splanchnic perfusion and heart rate for the detection of necrotizing enterocolitis

   • Niloofar Ganji
   • Yuhki Koike
   • Agostino Pierro

   Original Article 12 February 2021 Pages: 347 - 352

   

9. The administration of hepatocyte growth factor prevents total parenteral nutrition-induced hepatocellular injury in a rat model

   • Makoto Matsukubo
   • Keisuke Yano
   • Satoshi Ieiri

   Original Article 03 January 2021 Pages: 353 - 361

   

10. Meta-analyses in paediatric surgery are often fragile: implications and consequences

    • Arne Schröder
    • Oliver J. Muensterer
    • Christina Oetzmann von Sochaczewski

    Original Article Open access 16 January 2021 Pages: 363 - 367

    

11. Cell death induction (extrinsic versus intrinsic apoptotic pathway) by intestinal ischemia–reperfusion injury in rats is time-depended

    • Yoav Ben-Shahar
    • Zaid Abassi
    • Igor Sukhotnik

    Original Article 10 February 2021 Pages: 369 - 376

    

12. Nasogastric decompression after intestinal surgery in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    • Sinobol Chusilp
    • Masaya Yamoto
    • Agostino Pierro

    Original Article 10 February 2021 Pages: 377 - 388

    

13. Telemedicine in the pediatric surgery in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic

    • G. Lakshin
    • S. Banek
    • A. Schmedding

    Original Article Open access 02 January 2021 Pages: 389 - 395

    

14. Thoracoscopic oesophageal atresia/tracheo-oesophageal fistula (OA/TOF) repair is associated with a higher stricture rate: a single institution’s experience

    • H. Thakkar
    • D. M. Mullassery
    • Paolo De Coppi

    Original Article Open access 07 February 2021 Pages: 397 - 401

15. Early enteral feeding after intestinal anastomosis in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

    • Yuxin Tian
    • Haitao Zhu
    • Agostino Pierro

    Original Article 17 February 2021 Pages: 403 - 410

    

16. Discrepancy between the survival rate and neuropsychological development in postsurgical extremely low-birth-weight infants: a retrospective study over two decades at a single institution

    • Mitsuru Muto
    • Koshiro Sugita
    • Satoshi Ieiri

    Original Article 11 January 2021 Pages: 411 - 417