Clinical Review of Ten Years' Pediatric Surgical Diseases.
- Author:
Soo Jin Na CHOI
;
Sang Young CHUNG
;
Shin Kon KIM
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
pediatric surgery
- MeSH:
Gastroschisis;
Hernia, Inguinal;
Humans;
Incidence;
Infant, Newborn;
Intensive Care, Neonatal;
Intussusception;
Jeollanam-do;
Mortality;
Pyloric Stenosis, Hypertrophic
- From:Journal of the Korean Association of Pediatric Surgeons
1998;4(2):110-116
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
A clinical review was made on 2,191 cases of general pediatric surgery under the age of 15 years which were operated upon at the Divisionof Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Chonnam University Hospital from January 1988 to December 1997. The number of operations in pediatric age were 13,144 (13.2%) out of total 99,555 operations at Chonnam University Hospital and the most prevalent age group was under 1 year of age (14.3%). The number of operations in Divisionof General Pediatric Surgery were 2,191 (16.7%) out of total 13,144 operations in pediatric age and the incidence of patients under 1 year of age in general pediatric surgery was 42.9% (941/2,191). The prevalent diseases under 1 month of age were anorectal malformations (20.6%) and hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (20.3%) and between 1 month to 1 year of age were inguinal hernia (32.4%) and intussusception (19.6%). The total motality rate in neonatal intensive care unit was 31.3%. Gastroschisis presented highest mortality.
