Paediatric Thoracic Surgery

Contents: Introduction.- Historical Aspects.- Nursing Perspectives in the Management of Infants and Children Requiring Thoracic Surgery.- Influence of Anatomy and Physiology on the Management of Oesophageal Atresia.- Cervical, Cervicomediastinal and Intrathoracic Lymphangioma.- Intralobar Pulmonary Sequestration.- Mediastinal Masses in Childhood: A Review from a Paediatric Pathologist's Point of View.- Unusual Varieties of Diaphragmatic Herniae.- Current Status of Cardiac Surgery in Childhood.- An Approach to the Management of Chest Wall Deformities.- Unusual Problems in Oesophageal Surgery in Childhood.- Magnetic Resonance Imaging as a New Diagnostic Criterion in Paediatric Airway Obstruction.- Tracheal Stenosis by Innominate Artery Compression in Infants: Surgical Treatment in 35 Cases.- Indication and Results of Thoracic Surgical Procedures in Premature Infants.- Subject Index.