Long-Term Surgical Results in Children

Abstract

Pediatric surgery has progressed to the point where children with birth defects who are fortunate enough to be treated at a major center enjoy a nearly 100% opportunity for survival. With this achievement, pediatric surgeons are now concerned about their long-term results and the quality of life enjoyed by patients following correction of congenital anomalies. Volume 10 of Progress in Pediatric Surgery is a collection of papers presented at the 1975 meeting of the German Society of Pediatric Surgery on the long-term surgical results in children. The contributors, most of whom represent European clinics, went to great length to follow up patients who had been operated on at least ten years previously. There was one 60-year follow-up on the first patient to survive an operation for duodenal atresia. The problems discussed included cleft palate, esophageal atresia, pyloric stenosis, biliary atresia, genitourinary anomalies, and many other problems in pediatric surgery. It