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Managing Intraoperative Complications and Consequences

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Major intraoperative complications are a known and dreaded possibility in pediatric surgical oncology. Several pediatric tumors encase major neurovascular structures in ways that create significant surgical risk. Other major complications may carry less immediate life-threatening

risk, but still threaten significant long-term morbidity. The relatively good long-term outcomes for pediatric solid tumors, coupled with the ability of children to tolerate major surgery with significant

pathophysiologic disruption, and the reluctance to “give up” on pediatric patients all contribute to efforts toward heroic surgical procedures with their associated major risks.

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  1. Department of Surgery, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA

    Luca Pio

  2. Division of Pediatric Surgery, Ann & Robert H Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

    Timothy B. Lautz

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Pio, L., Lautz, T.B. (2023). Managing Intraoperative Complications and Consequences. In: Lakhoo, K., Abdelhafeez, A.H., Abib, S. (eds) Pediatric Surgical Oncology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71113-9_79-1

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