Finnish Association of Paediatric Surgeons Annual meeting April 3-4, 2008, Pori

To 3.4.2008

12.00   Lunch

MINI-INVASIVE SURGERY IN CHILDREN 

13.00   Sulamaa lecture
           Klaas Bax, Sofia Children´s Hospital, Rotterdam

14.00   Coffee and exhibition

14.30   MACE in the treatment of congenital fecal incontinence
           Antti Koivusalo, Children´s Hospital, Helsinki

14.50   Thoracoskopic scoliosis surgery, TAYS, Olli Pajulo
 
15.10   Biliar stone disease in children, Antti Koivusalo, Children´s Hospital, Helsinki

15.30   Coffee and exhibition
 
15.50   Laparoscopic dismembered pyeloplasty in a child with a relatively inaccessable 
           intrarenal pelvis (5min video), Hannu Lintula, KYS 

16.10   Daycase hernia repair: lap – open ? Antti Koivusalo, Children´s Hospital, Helsinki

16.30   Laparoscopic versus open orchidopexy in children with intra-abdominal testes, Hannu  Lintula, KYS.

16.50   Nordic consensus on treatment of undescended testis
           Seppo Taskinen, Children´s Hospital, Helsinki

19.30   Dinner

Pe 4.4.2008

9.00    Annual meeting of Finnish Association of Paediatric Surgeons

LOCAL AND NATIONAL CO-OPERATION IN THE TREATMENT OF PAEDIATRIC SURGICAL PATIENTS

10.00   Local and national co-operation, up to date in paediatric surgery
           Päivi Salminen, Children´s Hospital, Helsinki

10.15   Invited comments

Discussion

11.00   Coffee and exhibition

11.30   How national centralisation affects treatment and outcome of biliary atresia
           Mikko Pakarinen, Children´s Hospital, Helsinki

11.50   Long term results of cloaca repair, Rintala Risto, Children´s Hospital, Helsinki

12.10   Intestinal failure – etiology modifies the treatment
           Mikko Pakarinen, Children´s Hospital, Helsinki

12.30   Lunch