This highly illustrated volume provides step-by-step guidance to the performance of endoscopic techniques in infants and children. The text is well structured throughout, with all operative chapters written according to a standard template for authority and consistency, and to ensure that the procedures described can be followed easily by the train

Chief Editor:Azad Najmaldin MS FRCS FRCSEd
Consultant Paediatric Surgeon and Urologist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals, Leeds UK
Associate Editors:Steven Rothenberg MDChief of Pediatric Surgery, The Mother and Child Hospital at Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center, Denver; and Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, USA
David Crabbe MD FRCS FRCSEdConsultant Paediatric Surgeon, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, UK
Spencer Beasley MS FRACSProfessor of Paediatric Surgery, University of Otago; and Chief of Child Health Services, Christchurch Hospital, Christchurch, New Zealand

SECTION A INTRODUCTION, Rigid endoscopes, Flexible endoscope,s Imaging equipment, Energy used in endoscopic surgery, Instruments used in rigid and flexible endoscopy, Instruments used in urinary tract endoscopy, Instruments in laparoscopy and thoracoscopy, Robotic laparoscopic surgery SECTION B AIRWAY AND THORACIC Rigid endoscopy of the airway, Fiberoptic bronchoscopy, Foreign bodies in the airway Interventional bronchoscopy, Thoracoscopy, Principles of lung resection,Tracheo-oesophageal fistula, Thoracoscopic sympathectomy, Empyema, Thoracoscopic clipping of patent ductus arteriosus, Endoscopic-assisted correction of pectus excavatum SECTION C: GASTROINTESTINAL Rigid endoscopy of the oesophagus, Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, Esophageal dilatation, Foreign bodies in the upper gastrointestinal tract, Esophageal varices, Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy, Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, Proctosigmoidoscopy, Colonoscopy.