Cutting-Edge Pediatric Colorectal Surgery: A Half-Century of Innovations in Technique which have Transformed Care for Anorectal Malformation

Thomas O. Xu; Julia Ryan; Marc A. Levitt

doi:10.1055/a-2523-2329

European Journal of Pediatric Surgery, Table of Contents

Eur J Pediatr Surg 2025; 35(02): 089-097
DOI: 10.1055/a-2523-2329

Review Article

Cutting-Edge Pediatric Colorectal Surgery: A Half-Century of Innovations in Technique which have Transformed Care for Anorectal Malformation

Thomas O. Xu

¹Division of Colorectal and Pelvic Reconstruction, Children's National Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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Julia Ryan

¹Division of Colorectal and Pelvic Reconstruction, Children's National Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia, United States

²Department of Surgery, George Washington School of Medicine, Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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Marc A. Levitt

¹Division of Colorectal and Pelvic Reconstruction, Children's National Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia, United States

²Department of Surgery, George Washington School of Medicine, Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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Abstract

The field of pediatric colorectal surgery has been transformed over the last 50 years with innovations that have dramatically improved surgical techniques, reduced complications, and improved patients' lives. Specific to anorectal malformations (ARMs), an innovative operation for their repair, the posterior sagittal anorectoplasty (PSARP), came in the 1980s and was relatively new compared to other operations for congenital problems which were mostly developed in the 1950s. Since that major advance, further cutting-edge surgical techniques have been developed and are reviewed here.

Keywords

anorectal malformations - surgical innovation - posterior sagittal anorectoplasty - perineal body preserving PSARP

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