Diagnosis and Surgical Care of Pediatric Cancers
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Surgery".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 March 2024) | Viewed by 1452
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pediatric surgery; gastrointestinal surgery; minimally invasive surgery; congenital abnormalities; laparoscopic surgery; abdominal surgery
Interests: endoscopic surgery; prenatal diagnostics and counselling; pulmonary malformation; short bowel; bacterial translocation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cancer is attested to be the second most prevalent cause of mortality among children aged 1 to 14 years, to date. Significant progresses have been observed in the field of diagnosis and treatment of pediatric cancers in recent decades. However, surgery remains a cornerstone of the management of pediatric cancers, whether performed at presentation or following neoadjuvant therapies. Notably, in recent years, new techniques have been incorporated into the armamentarium of surgeons dealing with pediatric cancer patients. In particular, laparoscopic- and robotic-assisted surgery have carved their space in the adult cancer population with evidence supporting less pain, shorter hospital stays, lower complications, and equivalent long-term survival and oncologic outcomes; and hopefully they may have a role in pediatric cancer surgery as well. In addition, the improvement in the quality imaging has allowed a three-dimensional visualization and printing to be incorporated into surgical practice, and fluorescence-guided surgery showed the advantage to distinguish anatomical or physiologic differences between cancer and normal tissue.
This Special Issue aims to discuss advances in diagnosis and surgical care of cancers in pediatric age. Colleagues and researchers are invited to submit their manuscripts.
We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions.
Dr. Alessandro Boscarelli
Dr. Jurgen Schleef
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pediatric cancers
- minimally invasive
- cancer diagnosis
- recent advances
- pediatric surgery
- children
