Product Description: This book provides a state of the art overview of all aspects of testicular descent and cryptorchidism, including the mechanisms of descent and the causes, consequences, diagnosis, and treatment of undescended testis. The advances in understanding that have been achieved over the past two decades are clearly explained, covering the latest genetic information on the causes of normal and abnormal testicular descent, the role of INSL3 in transabdominal migration, and the evidence that a neurotransmitter released from the genitofemoral nerve mediates androgenic control of inguinoscrotal descent...read more

Product Description: This book demonstrates clearly how to perform a clinical examination in the infant or child with a surgical condition. While most textbooks of pediatric surgery focus on the pathological classification and overall management of disease, in clinical practice physicians and surgeons usually use a problem-oriented approach to clinical diagnosis...read more

Product Description: Diagnosis of the vast array of paediatric surgical disorders is often made entirely on clinical grounds, most of which can be clearly illustrated by photography. This illustrated guide contains a vast resource of clinical material for paediatric surgeons and their students...read more

Product Description: This book on oesophageal atresia and tracheo-oesophageal fistula sets out to describe all aspects of a congenital anomaly which has been described as 'the epitome of modern surgery' and 'the raison d' etre of paediatric surgery'. Although the literature contains references to the survival of one baby with oesophageal atresia (without fistula) who was born in 1935, the major component of the oesophageal atresia story concerns the most frequent anomaly, namely oesophageal atresia with a distal tracheo-oesophageal fistula...read more

Product Description: This book will show medical students and other medical and clinical personnel how to perform a clinical examination in the infant or child who has a surgical condition. Instead of focusing on the pathological classification and overall management of disease, this book aims to provide the practical details of how a diagnosis is made...read more