Recent Advances and Controversies in Pediatric Surgery

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Medicine is forever evolving. As we move towards new frontiers and reach out for new advances, we often tread through the controversies and opposing views. The protagonists and antagonists for various forms of management of the medical/surgical conditions keep on putting forth their arguments in favor of adoption for specific courses of actions. This lack of consensus could be due to lack of in-depth knowledge, institutional limitations, differences in philosophies, societal acceptance or simply because that the medical fraternity has not ‘arrived’ yet. Putting forth a Symposium on the recent advances and controversies in Pediatric Surgery was long overdue. The fifteen review articles spread out in next three issues will be ‘value addition’ to the Indian Journal of Pediatrics. The contents are clearly presented and will not only interest surgeons but also medical pediatricians. …