RT Journal
A1 KEATING JP
T1 Ulcerative colitis and crohn's disease: Progress in pediatric surgery
JF American Journal of Diseases of Children
JO American Journal of Diseases of Children
YR 1979
FD February 1
VO 133
IS 2
SP 224
OP 224
DO 10.1001/archpedi.1979.02130020116031
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1979.02130020116031
AB This relatively new series of small volumes provides an opportunity for an exchange of ideas and experiences in greater detail than is possible in the standard pediatric and surgical periodicals. Volume 6 (Biliary Atresia and Choledochal Cyst) included important articles from Japanese sources, in English, that are otherwise unavailable to the American reader. Volume 10 addressed a topic of increasing interest, "Long-Term Surgical Results in Children." This current volume will be of interest to pediatric surgeons, gastroenterologists, and perhaps, a medical historian or two.Judging this book by its title may lead to dismay. The volume contains 15 articles on a variety of topics, but less than one third of the space is devoted to ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. That section consists of contributions to a surgical symposium held in 1976 in Austria; it will probably be of less interest to the reader than the other sections, which include