RT Journal
A1 GIAMMONA ST
T1 SUrgery in infancy and childhood.
JF A.M.A. Journal of Diseases of Children
JO A.M.A. Journal of Diseases of Children
YR 1959
FD June 1
VO 97
IS 6
SP 898
OP 898
DO 10.1001/archpedi.1959.02070010900031
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1959.02070010900031
AB This book, as stated in its preface, was designed to introduce to the senior students of Glasgow some of the surgical problems encountered in infancy and childhood and to refresh the memories of the authors' colleagues in general practice. It was not written for the pediatric surgeon as a reference book. It is based mainly on the authors' personal experiences in the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow, Scotland, and thus it is in many ways unbalanced in its selection and discussion of surgical problems, with emphasis largely on those disorders seen by the authors with almost no reference to the work of others.The book covers by brief presentations virtually the entire gamut of pediatric surgical disorders, and, by its survey nature, it necessarily becomes deficient in surgical details. This limitation and its lack of references sharply curtail the usefulness of this volume and make it inadequate as an