This work offers a problem-based overview of pediatric surgery, with 65 clinical cases, each outlined and illustrated with photographs, x rays and questions. Areas highlighted include the essentials of appropriate diagnostic evaluation, differential diagnosis and surgical or medical management.

Table of Contents:
1. A 3-Day-Old Boy With Abdominal Distention and Vomting (RLM). 2. A 1-Week-Old Baby With Vomiting (EDS). 3. A Cyanotic Spell in an 8-Hour-Old Infant (AMK). 4. A Girl With a Lump in Her Groin (BMS). 5. Abdominal Distention and Failure to Pass Meconium in an Infant (RLM). 6. A 5-Year-Old Boy With Multiple Medical Problems and Abdominal Pain (BMS). 7. Sudden Abdominal Distention in a 9-Day-Old Premature Infant (AMK). 8. A 3.5-Year-Old Boy Who Walks Holding His Right Side (AMK). 9. A 6-Year-Old Boy With Crampy Abdominal Pain and Vomiting (RLM). 10. A 5-Week-Old Baby With Vomiting (RLM). 11. A 2.5-Year-Old Girl With a 24-Hour History of Vomiting and Intermittent Abdominal Pain (BMS). 12. A 7-Year-Old Boy Struck by a Car (EDS). 13. A 2-year-Old Boy With a Scrotal Mass (EDS). 14. A 4-Year-old Boy With Fatigue and an Abdominal Mass (RLM). 15. A 9-Year-Old Girl With Right Lower Quadrant Pain (EDS). 16. Choking in an 18-Month-Old Boy (AMK). 17. A 5-Year-Old Girl With a "Prolapse" at the Introitus (RLM). 18. An 8-Month-Old Girl With a "Prolapse" at the Introitus (RLM). 19. Head and Neck Show and Tell (AMK). 20. A 7-Year-Old Boy with Acute Abdominal Pain (EDS). 21. Acute Abdomen in a 5-Day-Old Premature Infant (AMK). 22. A Newborn Girl with Inperforate Anus (RLM). 23. Pneumoperitoneum in a 650-Gram Premature Infact (AMK). 24. A 9-Month-Old Boy With an Abdominal Mass and Constipation (BMS). 25. A 2-Week-Old Boy With a Midline Abdominal Mass (RLM). 26. A Newborn With Fetal Polyhydraminos and Bilious Vomiting (EDS). 27. A Newborn Boy With an Abdominal Wall Defect (RLM). 28. Leg Swelling in a 5-Year-Old Boy (RLM). 29. A 3-Year-Old Boy Who Swallowed a Key (AMK). 30. Jaundice in a Baby on Parenteral Nutrition (RLM). 31. Sudden Cardiac Arrest in a Postoperative Infant (EDS). 32. A 5-Year-Old Girl With Pubic Hair and Acne (RLM). 33. A 3-Year-Old Girl Who Suddenly Vomits Blood (EDS). 34. A 14-Month-Old Boy With an Empty Left Scrotum (RLM). 35. A 2-Year-Old Boy With Bloody Stools (EDS). 36. A 7-Week-Old Girl With Jaundice. 37. A 2-Year-Old Boy With Fever and Drooling (RLM). 38. A Foreign Body in the Esophagus in a 5-Year-Old Girl (AMK). 39. A 6-Month-Old Infant Who Turned Blue and Stopped Breathing (AMK). 40. A 13-Year-Old Boy With a Sunken Chest (EDS). 41. An Infant Boy With A Tense Mass in the Groin (AMK). 42. A 2-Day-Old Boy With a Tense Mass in the Groin (AMK). 43. A Newborn With Respiratory Distress (BMS). 44. A 3-Year-Old Boy With A Prolapsed Rectum (RLM). 45. A Newborn With Abdominal Distention and Green Vomiting (BMS). 46. A Term Infant With Excessive Salivation (AMK). 47. An Abdominal Wall Defect in a Newborn (EDS). 48. A Newborn Girl With Respiratory Distress (RLM). 49. In Utero Diagnosis of a Fetus With Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (EDS). 50. A 7-Year-Old Boy With a Fetus With Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (EDS). 51. A 4-Year-Old Girl With Wheezing (RLM). 52. An Infant With A Draining Skin Pit in the Neck (EDS). 53. A Boy With a Midline Cervical Mass (AMK). 54. A Tender Neck Mass in a 4-Year-Old Girl (RLM). 55. A 3-Year-Old Girl With an Enlarging Painless Neck Mass (RLM). 56. A 3-Year-Old Girl With an Enlarging Painless Neck Mass (RLM). 57. A 14-Month-Old Girl With Fever and Respiratory Distress. 58. A Newborn Boy With Imperforate Anus (RLM). 59. A Newborm With an Abdominal Chest x-Ray (RLM). 60. A Teenage Boy Involved in a Garage Explosion (EDS). 61. A 13-Year-Old Boy With Severe Groin Pain (EDS). 62. A 2-Month-Old Baby With a Wet Umbilicus (BMS). 63. Cardiac Failure in a 1-Week-Old Premature Infant on a Ventilator (AMK). 64. A 5-Year-Old Boy With Cerebral Palsy and Vomiting (RLM). 65. A Large Infant With Grunting Respirations (AMK). 66. An 11-Month-Old Girl With a Protruding Umbilicus (BMS). 67. A 2-Year-Old Girl With Jaundice (RLM). 68. A 2-Week-Old Baby With a Right Pleural Effusion (EDS). 69. A 15-Year-Old Female With Abdominal Pain (EDS). 70. A Large Abdominal Mass in a 20-Month-Old Girl (EDS). 71. Respiratory Failure in a 4-Month-Old Infant (AMK). 72. A 3-Year-Old Boy With a Swollen Testis (RLM). 73. A Fetus/Neonate With a Cystic Mass in the Left Chest (AMK). 74. A 9-Year-Old Boy With Headaches (RLM). 75. a 13-Year-Old Girl With Recurrent Perianal Infections (RLM). 76. A 14-Month-Old Boy With Left Lung Atelectasis (AMK). 77. A 7-Year-Old-Boy With Abdominal Pain and Vomiting (EDS). 78. A 15-Year-Old Girl With a Painless Neck Mass (EDS). 79. A 15-Year-Old Girl With right Upper Quadrant Abdominal Pain (RLM). 80. A Newborn Boy With a Neck Mass (RLM).