Evolution of surgical paediatrics in China

J Pediatr Surg. 2003 Jul;38(7 Suppl):48-52. doi: 10.1016/s0022-3468(03)00077-0.

Abstract

Pediatric surgery of China was established in 1950. Being isolated from the world, China's first-generation pediatric surgeons were mainly self-taught. The technology of pediatric surgery of China practically followed Gross, and the aim of pediatric surgery was similar to that of BAPS, "not to seek a monopoly." Since 1980, after the scientific exchange with Western countries, the clinical results of common pediatric surgical diseases have reached the acceptable level of the world. China is a huge country with poor transportation, one-child family planning, and Chinese traditional medicine, which made certain peculiarities in the practice of paediatric surgery.

Publication types

  • Historical Article

MeSH terms

  • China
  • General Surgery / history*
  • History, 20th Century
  • History, 21st Century
  • Pediatrics / history*
  • Societies, Medical / history*