Elsevier

Current Problems in Surgery

Volume 35, Issue 10, October 1998, Pages 859, 861-948
Current Problems in Surgery

Laparoscopic surgery in children

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0011-3840(98)80002-6Get rights and content

Summary

The surgeon should be aware of the extensive applications of endoscopic surgery in the pediatric patient. The ability to provide surgical care in association with either outpatient or short-stay hospitalizations appear to be cost-effective and appropriate state-of-the-art medical care. Because the array of surgical instruments continues to evolve, new and innovative endoscopic procedures will continue to become increasingly available.

References (229)

  • KaufmanA et al.

    Cost-effective endoscopic examination of the contralateral inguinal ring

    Urology

    (1996)
  • DiamondD et al.

    The value of laparoscopy for 106 impalpable testes relative to clinical presentation

    J Urol

    (1992)
  • PlotzkerE et al.

    Laparoscopy for nonpalpable testes in childhood: Is inguinal exploration also necessary when vas and vessels exit the inguinal ring?

    J Urol

    (1992)
  • HeissK et al.

    Laparoscopy for the impalpable testes: experience with 53 testes

    J Pediatr Surg

    (1992)
  • TurekPJ et al.

    The absent cryptorchid testis: surgical findings and their implications for diagnosis and etiology

    J Urol

    (1994)
  • ElderJS

    Laparoscopy for impalpable testes: significance of the patent processus vaginalis

    J Urol

    (1994)
  • TennenbaumSY et al.

    Preoperative laparoscopic localization of the nonpalpable testis: a critical analysis of a 10-year experience

    J Urol

    (1994)
  • KoffSA et al.

    Treatment of high undescended testes by low spermatic vessel ligation: an alternative to the Fowler-Stephens technique

    J Urol

    (1996)
  • PoenaruD et al.

    Laparoscopic management of the impalpable abdominal testis

    Urology

    (1993)
  • JordanG et al.

    Laparoscopic single stage and staged orchiopexy

    J Urol

    (1994)
  • CaldamoneAA et al.

    Laparoscopic stage 2 Fowler-Stephens orchiopexy

    J Urol

    (1994)
  • FerroF et al.

    Benefits and afterthoughts of laparoscopy for the nonpalpable testis

    J Urol

    (1996)
  • MooreRG et al.

    Laparoscopic evaluation of the nonpalpable tests: a prospective assessment of accuracy

    J Urol

    (1994)
  • DocimoSG et al.

    Laparoscopic orchiopexy for the high palpable undescended testis: preliminary experience

    J Urol

    (1995)
  • NassarAH

    Laparoscopic-assisted orchidopexy: a new approach to the impalpable testis

    J Pediatr Surg

    (1995)
  • FairfaxCA et al.

    The laparoscopic diagnosis of transverse testicular ectopia

    J Urol

    (1995)
  • HumphreyGM et al.

    Laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication in disabled infants and children

    J Pediatr Surg

    (1996)
  • GansS et al.

    Advances in endoscopy of infants and children

    J Pediatr Surg

    (1971)
  • GansS et al.

    Peritoneoscopy in infants and children

    J Pediatr Surg

    (1973)
  • GotzF et al.

    Modified laparoscopic appendectomy in surgery: a report on 388 operations

    Surg Endosc

    (1990)
  • GotzF et al.

    Laparoscopic appendectomy: indications, technique and results in 653 patients

    Chirurg

    (1991)
  • LobeTE et al.

    Inguinal hernias in pediatrics: initial experience with laparoscopic inguinal exploration of the asymptomatic contralateral side

    J Laparoendosc Surg

    (1992)
  • MoirCR

    Laparoscopy and thoracostomy in children

    Curr Opin Pediatr

    (1993)
  • HolcombGR

    Wherein lies the future?

  • BloomDA et al.

    Pediatric peritoneoscopy (laparoscopy)

    Clin Pediatr

    (1993)
  • DelarueA et al.

    Pediatric endoscopic surgery: pride and prejudice

    Eur J Pediatr Surg

    (1994)
  • TanHL

    The role of laparoscopic surgery in children

    Ann Chir Gynaecol

    (1994)
  • HolcombG

    Indications for laparoscopy in children

    Int Surg

    (1994)
  • SchaarschmidtK et al.

    Laparoscopic and thoracoscopic surgery in infancy and childhood, the Munster/Gent experience

    Technol Health Care

    (1996)
  • MoirCR

    Diagnostic laparoscopy and laparoscopic equipment

  • TobiasJD et al.

    General anesthesia by mask with spontaneous ventilation during brief laparoscopic inspection of the peritoneum in children

    J Laparoendosc Surg

    (1994)
  • HsingC et al.

    The physiological effect of CO2 pneumoperitoneum in pediatric laparoscopy

    Acta Anaesthesiol Sin

    (1995)
  • TobiasJD

    Anesthetic considerations for endoscopic procedures in children

  • McKernanJB et al.

    Access techniques: Veress needle: initial blind trocar insertion versus open laparoscopy with the Hasson trocar

    Endosc Surg Allied Technol

    (1995)
  • JuricicM et al.

    Laparoscopic appendicectomy: case reports of vascular injury in 2 children

    Eur J Pediatr Surg

    (1994)
  • BloomDA et al.

    Omental evisceration through small laparoscopy port sites

    J Endourol

    (1993)
  • MarkSD

    Omental herniation through a small laparoscopic port

    Br J Urol

    (1995)
  • AlexanderJ et al.

    Abdominal pain after laparoscopy: the value of a gas drain

    Br J Obstet Gynaecol

    (1987)
  • BonanniF et al.

    Laparoscopic versus conventional appendectomy

    J Am Coll Surg

    (1994)
  • LejusC et al.

    Randomized, single-blinded trial of laparoscopic versus open appendectomy in children: effects on postoperative analgesia

    Anesthesiology

    (1996)
  • Cited by (18)

    • Two decades of minimally invasive pediatric surgery-taking stock

      2008, Journal of Pediatric Surgery
      Citation Excerpt :

      The era after 1990 saw the rapid integration of MIS to all fields of pediatric surgery, so much so that today, it is an integral part of pediatric surgical practice. A few attempts have however been made both previously and in the recent past, to delineate the status of MIS in general surgery and pediatric urology [18-24]. However, a consolidated opinion about the current status of minimally invasive surgery from a wide group of current pediatric surgeons is absent in literature.

    • Complications of Pediatric and Adolescent Laparoscopy

      2006, Complications of Gynecologic Endoscopic Surgery
    • The role of laparoscopy in suspicious abdomen pain in children

      2013, Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences
    View all citing articles on Scopus
    View full text