An entirely different spectrum of illnesses present themselves in the abdominal surgical diseases, both acquired and congenital, that occur in children as opposed to those which occur in adults. The special psychological and nutritional requirements of growing children, as well as the different responses to trauma during childhood, are recognized by surgeons, neonatologists and pediatric intensivists who must care for children on a daily basis.This book begins with the basic problems of pediatric abdominal surgical procedures and then details the specific care of individual conditions. The text is organized into diseases of the newborn, older infants and children, and then into the physiologically specialized areas of the adrenal, pancreatic, parasitic and hepatobiliary disorders, tumors and trauma. Within these separate sections the probable diagnosis and the recommended treatment programs are identified in clear and detailed discussions.The surgery of infancy and childhood, which originall