International Pediatric Endosurgery Group

LAPAROSCOPIC LIGATION OF MIDDLE SACRAL ARTERY AND DISSECTION OF SACROCOCCYGEAL TERATOMA TO DECREASE INTRAOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGIC RISK Gustavo Villalona, MD, FACS, FAAP, Armando Salim Munoz Abraham, MD, MBEE, Saurabh Saxena, MD, Hector Osei, MD, Rachelle Damle, MD, MS, Clint Cappiello, MD; Saint Louis University

MANAGEMENT OF VARIATIONS IN CHOLEDOCHAL CYST ANATOMY DURING LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLEDOCHAL CYST EXCISION IN CHILDREN Ashwin Pimpalwar, MD1, Danielle Severns2; 1Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Missouri and Children’s Hospital University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 2University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri

PERCUTANEOUS EMBOLIZATION AND LAPAROSCOPIC LIGATION OF A CONGENITAL UMBILICAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION Phillip B Ham, MD, MS1, Spencer R Anderson, MD2, Lucas P Neff, MD3, Anne E Gill, MD4, C Matthew Hawkins, MD4, Amina M Bhatia, MD, MS3; 1Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, 2Mercer University School of Medicine, 3Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of […]

LAPAROSCOPIC-ASSISTED PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY IS RECOMMENDED FOR OLDER PATIENTS AND PATIENTS WITH SEVERE SCOLIOSIS Shinya Takazawa, MD, PhD, Akira Nishi, MD, Yukiko Tani, MD, PhD, Tsubasa Goshima, MD, Yasuyuki Uchida, MD; Gunma Children’s Medical Center

THE IMPACT OF SIMULATOR SIZE ON THE FORCES MEASURED IN THE PERFORMANCE OF A DEFINED INTRA-CORPOREAL SUTURING TASK: A PILOT STUDY Aodhnait S Fahy, MD, PhD1, Luai Jamal, MD1, Bojan Gavrilovic, PhD2, Brian Carillo, PhD2, Justin T Gerstle, MD1, Ahmed Nasr, MD3, Georges Azzie, MD1; 1Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, 2University of Toronto, 3Children’s Hospital […]