1980 Volume 16 Issue 5 Pages 847-854
Surveies on neonatal surgery in Japan were made in 1964, 1968 and 1973, and the results were presented at the 2nd, 6th and 11th annual meetings of Japanese Society of Pediatric Surgeons (J. S. P. S.) respectively. In 1978, the 4th survey was made, reporting that 2,149 neonatal patients were surgically treated at 315 institutes all over Japan in one year period. These materials were analyzed and presented by A. Tsunoda (the President of J. S. P. S.) at the 16th annual meeting. However, there are some intereating data that have not been included in Tsunoda's presentation. This paper summarizes those materials as the additional study. With the patients in the survey in 1978, including 153 congenital esophageal atresia, 360 ano-rectal malformation, 114 malrotation of the intestine, 318 congenital intestinal atresia 101 gastric rupture, 147 omphalocele and 44 gastroschisis, an analysis was undertaken on each disease group regarding 1)incidence, 2)relationship of birth-weight, types and surgical tre-atment to motality, 3) effect of hyperalimentation to outcome of surgical management, 4)ass-ociated anomalies, and 5)cause of death.
