title: Pediatric minimal-access surgery: update 2006.
abstract: Pediatric patients continue to benefit from the advances made in minimal-access surgery. Improvements in techniques and tools have made minimal-access procedures increasingly available to children. Growing popularity of laparoscopy and thoracoscopy has resulted in greater numbers of patients available for outcomes analysis. Randomized, controlled studies have been difficult to perform because of parent, patient, and physician selection bias.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Surgery, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA. jlz2@columbia.edu
authors.forename: Jeffrey L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Zitsman
mesh_terms: D001064:Appendicitis / Q000601:surgery; D050110:Bariatric Surgery; D002648:Child; D018662:Fundoplication; D005764:Gastroesophageal Reflux / Q000601:surgery; D006552:Hernia, Inguinal / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007410:Intestinal Diseases / Q000601:surgery; D010535:Laparoscopy; D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures / Q000639:trends; D013158:Splenic Diseases / Q000601:surgery; D013906:Thoracoscopy