**Meet the editor**

Doc. Dr. Öner Özdemir was born in Alaplı, Zonguldak, Turkey in 1965. He has graduated from İstanbul Medical School, İstanbul University and become a medical doctor in 1989. Dr. Ozdemir did his pediatric residency at Department of Pediatrics in Children's Hospital, İstanbul Medical School, İstanbul, Turkey. His clinical fellowship training was finished at Pediatric Allergy/Im-

munology division in Louisiana State University, Health Sciences Centre, New Orleans, LA. Dr. Ozdemir research areas are as follows: LAK-cell generation and cell-mediated cytotoxicity; human mast cell development and mast cell-mediated cytotoxicity; and apoptosis related research. He was the first place winner of Clemens Von Pirquet Award from ACAAI at ACAAI meeting in 2005 for the best research on allergy/asthma/immunology by a fellow in training. Dr. Ozdemir has more than 50 international plus 20 national publications, as well as 90 international and 30 national presentations, and more than 5 chapters related to his research areas. Currently, he works as chief at the third clinic of pediatrics associated with the division of pediatric allergy/immunology at İstanbul Medeniyet University, Göztepe Teaching and Training Hospital, Kadıköy, İstanbul, Turkey.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Part 2 Pediatric Surgery 31** 

Chapter 3 **Merits and Arguments Related to Circumcision 43**  Hosni Khairy Salem

**Part 1 Pediatric Ophtalmology 1** 

Chapter 1 **Pediatric Ophthalmology / Eye and Disorders 3** 

Chapter 2 **Acquired Cryptorchidism: What Should We Know? The Results of a Systematic Review 33** 

Chapter 4 **Nifedipine Gel with Lidocaine in the Treatment** 

**Review of the Literature 53** 

**Part 3 Special or Interdisciplinary Care 71** 

Eloisa Gitto, Gabriella D'Angelo, Erika Cusumano and Russel J. Reiter

**Approaches in Pediatric Oncology 97**  Nejla Canbulat and Ayşe Sonay Kurt

Chapter 7 **Snake Bites in Pediatric Patients, a Current View 123** 

B.A. Hernández-Montelongo and F.F. Montes-Tapia

M.E. De la O. Cavazos, C. Treviño Garza, G. Guajardo-Rodríguez,

Chapter 5 **Oxidative Stress of Newborn 73** 

Chapter 6 **Pain Management and Nursing** 

**of Anal Fissure in Children: A Pilot Study and** 

Baruch Klin, Ibrahim Abu-Kishk, Yigal Efrati and Gad Lotan

Hikmet Basmak, Nilgun Yildirim, Seyhan Topbas,

Ahmet Ozer, Nazmiye Erol, Huseyin Gursoy and Afsun Sahin

N. Zavras, A. Charalampopoulos, K. Velaoras and E. Iakomidis
