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A Short History of the European Society of Paediatric Endoscopic Surgeons (ESPES)

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During the late 1960s, well before their counterparts in adult surgery, Stephen Gans and George Berci anticipated the future of endoscopic surgery (minimal invasive surgery (MIS)) in infants and children would be promising. However, progress in the evolvement of this subspecialty remained slow, partly due to the minimal levels of political and commercial interest this type of surgery attracts in a small speciality like paediatrics. Furthermore, surgery in children encompasses a wide variety of conditions in a wide range of patients of differing age groups and sizes.

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  1. Leeds Teaching Hospitals, Leeds, UK

    Azad Najmaldin

  2. Pediatric Surgery Unit, Department of Translational Medical Sciences (DISMET), University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy

    Ciro Esposito & Philippe Montupet

  3. CHU Bicetre Paris, Paris, France

    Ciro Esposito & Philippe Montupet

  4. Department of Pediatric Surgery, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), HUDERF Children’s Hospital, Brussels, Belgium

    Henri Steyaert

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Correspondence to Azad Najmaldin .

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  1. Pediatric Surgery Unit, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

    Ciro Esposito

  2. Pediatric Surgery Unit, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Hautepierre, Strasbourg, France

    François Becmeur

  3. Pediatric Surgery Unit, Queen Fabiola Children’s University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium

    Henri Steyaert

  4. Pediatric Surgery Department, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Luzern, Switzerland

    Philipp Szavay

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Najmaldin, A., Esposito, C., Montupet, P., Steyaert, H. (2019). A Short History of the European Society of Paediatric Endoscopic Surgeons (ESPES). In: Esposito, C., Becmeur, F., Steyaert, H., Szavay, P. (eds) ESPES Manual of Pediatric Minimally Invasive Surgery . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00964-9_11

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