Fundamentals of Pediatric Surgery, like its predecessor Surgical Directives: Pediatric Surgery, provides practicing pediatric surgeons and adult general surgeons with authoritative discourses that were written by recognized experts and cover the fundamental principles of clinical

pediatric surgery. The goal of the editor and the authors is simple: provide readers with a unique resource consisting of practical and clinically oriented chapters that reflect the realworld experience of expert pediatric surgeons. Given the pace of new advances in Pediatric

Surgery, we felt the time was right for the book to be updated and improved. The result of these improvements and enhancements is Fundamentals of Pediatric Surgery.