Preface

摘要

Most pediatric surgeons who operate on neonates have seen an expansion over the last few decades from being a subspecialty of pediatric surgery to a superspecialty in its own right. Modern technological advances have contributed to the better care and survival of this group of patients. The evidence for this is based on the experience of most large centers. I have included here our data on neonatal surgical activity over the last three and a half decades.Our total neonatal surgical activity over the last 35 years (10,465 patients) is illustrated in Figure 1. The number of admissions has consistently increased by an average of at least 100% during the study period (range 139 in 1973 to 433 in 1988).