Meet the editor

Prof Sameh Shehata is a professor and past chairman of the Pediatric Surgery Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alexandria, Egypt. He is the president-elect of the World Federation of Associations of Pediatric Surgery (WOFAPS) and the current president of the International Pediatric Endosurgery Group's (IPEG) Middle East chapter.

Dr. Shehata is the innovator of the laparoscopic traction technique for intra-abdominal testis, known as the "Shehata technique," which is widely practiced now in many centers worldwide.

Dr. Shehata is on the editorial boards of many national and international pediatric surgery journals, including *JPS*, *Medicine*, *Annals of Pediatric Surgery*, and the *International Journal of Urology*.

He has shared as a speaker, keynote speaker, moderator, and panelist at more than 250 national and international meetings.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

Principles of Fetal Surgery *by Ahmed Abdelghaffar Helal*

Necrotizing Enterocolitis

Meconium Ileus

**Section 3**

**Section 4**

*by Udefiagbon Omogiade*

*by Hasan Özkan Gezer*

Management of Gastroschisis *by Alaa Obeida and Aly Shalaby*

*by Rita Prasad Verma and Archana Kota*

**Preface III**

Fetal Surgery **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Gastrointestinal Disorders **23**

**Chapter 2 25**

**Chapter 3 47**

**Chapter 4 71**

Hepatobiliary **85**

**Chapter 5 87**

Abdominal Wall Defects **115**

**Chapter 6 117**

Oesophageal Atresia: Drowning a Child in His/Her Own Saliva

*by Samuel Osei-Nketiah and William Appeadu-Mensah*

Pediatric Choledochal Cysts: Unknowns are Decreasing
