Scholarly works by Children's Mercy Kansas City's doctors, nurses, researchers, and other staff.


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Works from 2012

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A review: the role of high dose methylprednisolone in spinal cord trauma in children., Janine N. Pettiford, Jai Bikhchandani, Daniel J. Ostlie, Shawn D. St Peter, Ronald J. Sharp, and David Juang (Article)

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Bisphosphonates for pain management in children with benign cartilage tumors., Mark J. Winston, Tarak Srivastava, Dale E. Jarka, and Uri S. Alon (Article)

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Contralateral inguinal hernia after negative laparoscopic evaluation: a rare but real phenomenon., David Juang, Carrisa L. Garey, Daniel J. Ostlie, Charles L. Snyder, G W. Holcomb III, and Shawn D. St Peter (Article)

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Evaluation of xTAG Respiratory Viral Panel FAST and xTAG Human Parainfluenza Virus Analyte-Specific Reagents for detection of human parainfluenza viruses in respiratory specimens, Suresh B. Selvaraju and Rangaraj Selvarangan (Article)

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Experience with a simple technique for pectus bar removal., Frankie B. Fike, Vincent E. Mortellaro, Corey W. Iqbal, Susan W. Sharp, Daniel J. Ostlie, G W. Holcomb III, Ronald J. Sharp, Charles L. Snyder, and Shawn D. St Peter (Article)

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Initial pediatric cardiac experience with decellularized allograft patches., Gary K. Lofland, James E. O'Brien, Kimberly L. Gandy, Pam A. Dennis, Jennifer A. Marshall, Rebecca K. Mastbergen, and Richard A. Hopkins (Article)

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Pediatric negative appendectomy rate: trend, predictors, and differentials., Tolulope A. Oyetunji, Sharon K. Ong'uti, Oluwaseyi B. Bolorunduro, Edward E. Cornwell, and Benedict C. Nwomeh (Article)

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Dispensing medications at the hospital upon discharge from an emergency department., Loren G. Yamamoto, Shannon Manzi, COMMITTEE ON PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, Kathy N. Shaw, Alice D. Ackerman, Thomas H. Chun, Gregory P. Conners, Nanette C. Dudley, Joel A. Fein, Susan M. Fuchs, Brian R. Moore, Steven M. Selbst, and Joseph L. Wright (Article)

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Kohler's disease, Nirav Shastri, Lauren Olson, and Milton Fowler (Article)

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Picture of the month: Denouement and comment - Erythema ab igne, Jennifer L. Goldman, Amy J. Nopper, and Angela L. Myers (Article)

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Three-dimensional echocardiography in congenital heart disease., Girish S. Shirali (Article)

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Why we should eliminate personal belief exemptions to vaccine mandates., John Lantos, Mary Anne Jackson, and Christopher J. Harrison (Article)

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A longitudinal case series description of meningitis due to Streptococcus gallolyticus subsp. pasteurianus in infants, J. Michael Klatte, Jill E. Clarridge, Denise Bratcher, and Rangaraj Selvarangan (Article)

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Association between hospitals caring for a disproportionately high percentage of minority trauma patients and increased mortality: a nationwide analysis of 434 hospitals., Adil H. Haider, Sharon Ong'uti, David T. Efron, Tolulope A. Oyetunji, Marie L. Crandall, Valerie K. Scott, Elliott R. Haut, Eric B. Schneider, Neil R. Powe, Lisa A. Cooper, and Edward E. Cornwell (Article)

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Cryo-balloon angioplasty for pulmonary vein stenosis in pediatric patients., Michael A. Bingler, Jeffrey R. Darst, and Thomas E. Fagan (Article)

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EAE/ASE recommendations for image acquisition and display using three-dimensional echocardiography., Roberto M. Lang, Luigi P. Badano, Wendy Tsang, David H. Adams, Eustachio Agricola, Thomas Buck, Francesco F. Faletra, Andreas Franke, Judy Hung, Leopoldo Pérez de Isla, Otto Kamp, Jaroslaw D. Kasprzak, Patrizio Lancellotti, Thomas H. Marwick, Marti L. McCulloch, Mark J. Monaghan, Petros Nihoyannopoulos, Natesa G. Pandian, Patricia A. Pellikka, Mauro Pepi, David A. Roberson, Stanton K. Shernan, Girish S. Shirali, Lissa Sugeng, Folkert J. Ten Cate, Mani A. Vannan, Jose Luis Zamorano, William A. Zoghbi, American Society of Echocardiography, and European Association of Echocardiography (Article)

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EAE/ASE recommendations for image acquisition and display using three-dimensional echocardiography., Roberto M. Lang, Luigi P. Badano, Wendy Tsang, David H. Adams, Eustachio Agricola, Thomas Buck, Francesco F. Faletra, Andreas Franke, Judy Hung, Leopoldo Pérez de Isla, Otto Kamp, Jaroslaw D. Kasprzak, Patrizio Lancellotti, Thomas H. Marwick, Marti L. McCulloch, Mark J. Monaghan, Petros Nihoyannopoulos, Natesa G. Pandian, Patricia A. Pellikka, Mauro Pepi, David A. Roberson, Stanton K. Shernan, Girish S. Shirali, Lissa Sugeng, Folkert J. Ten Cate, Mani A. Vannan, Jose Luis Zamorano, William A. Zoghbi, American Society of Echocardiography, and European Association of Echocardiography (Article)

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Epidural vs patient-controlled analgesia for postoperative pain after pectus excavatum repair: a prospective, randomized trial., Shawn D. St Peter, Kathryn A. Weesner, Eric E. Weissend, Susan W. Sharp, Patricia A. Valusek, Ronald J. Sharp, Charles L. Snyder, G W. Holcomb III, and Daniel J. Ostlie (Article)

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Focal Suppurative Infections of the Nervous System, Christopher J. Harrison (Book Chapter)

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Living on a prayer: religious affiliation and trauma outcomes., Amal Khoury, Tolulope A. Oyetunji, Oluwaseyi Bolorunduro, Leia Harbour, Edward E. Cornwell, Suryanarayana M. Siram, Thomas Mellman, and Wendy R. Greene (Article)

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Next-generation community genetics for low- and middle-income countries., Stephen F. Kingsmore, John D. Lantos, Darrell L. Dinwiddie, Neil A. Miller, Sarah E. Soden, Emily G. Farrow, and Carol J. Saunders (Article)

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Overnight observation in former premature infants undergoing inguinal hernia repair., Carrie A. Laituri, Carissa L. Garey, Benjamin J. Pieters, Peter Mestad, Eric E. Weissend, and Shawn D. St Peter (Article)

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Streptococcus pneumoniae causing mycotic aneurysm in a pediatric patient with coarctation of the aorta., Brian Haas, Heath G. Wilt, Karina M. Carlson, and Gary K. Lofland (Article)

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The clinical scene investigator academy: the power of staff nurses improving patient and organizational outcomes., Susan R. Lacey, Adrienne Olney, and Karen S. Cox (Article)

Works from 2011

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A novel measure for pectus excavatum: the correction index., Shawn D. St Peter, David Juang, Carissa L. Garey, Carey A. Laituri, Daniel J. Ostlie, Ronald J. Sharp, and Charles L. Snyder (Article)

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Comparing specific IgE values of 2 different assays., P Brock Williams and Jay M. Portnoy (Response or Comment)

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Demographics and microbiology of otorrhea through patent tubes failing ototopical and/or oral antibiotic therapy, Inessa Fishman, Kevin J. Sykes, Rebecca Horvat, Rangaraj Selvarangan, Jason Newland, and Julie L. Wei (Article)

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Ethical considerations associated with clinical use of next-generation sequencing in children., John Lantos, Michael Artman, and Stephen F. Kingsmore (Article)

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Factors affecting growth in infants with single ventricle physiology: a report from the Pediatric Heart Network Infant Single Ventricle Trial., Richard V. Williams, Victor Zak, Chitra Ravishankar, Karen Altmann, Jeffrey Anderson, Andrew M. Atz, Carolyn Dunbar-Masterson, Nancy Ghanayem, Linda Lambert, Karen Lurito, Barbara Medoff-Cooper, Renee Margossian, Victoria L. Pemberton, Jennifer Russell, Mario Stylianou, Daphne Hsu, Pediatric Heart Network Investigators, and Girish S. Shirali (Article)

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Impact of the permanent ventricular pacing site on left ventricular function in children: a retrospective multicentre survey., Irene E. van Geldorp, Tammo Delhaas, Roman A. Gebauer, Patrick Frias, Maren Tomaske, Mark K. Friedberg, Svjetlana Tisma-Dupanovic, Jan Elders, Andreas Früh, Fulvio Gabbarini, Petr Kubus, Viera Illikova, Sabrina Tsao, Andreas Christian Blank, Anita Hiippala, Thierry Sluysmans, Peter Karpawich, Sally-Ann Clur, Xavier Ganame, Kathryn K. Collins, Gisela Dann, Jean-Benoît Thambo, Conceição Trigo, Bert Nagel, John Papagiannis, Annette Rackowitz, Jan Marek, Jan-Hendrik Nürnberg, Ward Y. Vanagt, Frits W. Prinzen, Jan Janousek, and Working Group for Cardiac Dysrhythmias and Electrophysiology of the Association for European Paediatric Cardiology (Article)

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Incidence, diagnosis, and outcomes of vocal fold immobility after esophageal atresia (EA) and/or tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF) repair., V E. Mortellaro, J N. Pettiford, Shawn D. St Peter, Jason D. Fraser, B Ho, and J Wei (Article)

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Intrapericardial foreign bodies in the pediatric trauma population., F B. Fike, David Juang, O J. Muensterer, James E. O'Brien, D J. Ostlie, and Shawn D. St Peter (Article)

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Outcomes of perforated appendicitis in obese and nonobese children., Carissa L. Garey, Carey A. Laituri, Danny C. Little, Daniel J. Ostlie, and Shawn D. St Peter (Article)

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Pulmonary function testing in young children., Hugo Escobar and Terrence W. Carver (Article)

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Pulmonary interstitial emphysema presenting as a congenital cystic adenomatous malformation on CT., P Aggarwal, V E. Mortellaro, and Shawn D. St Peter (Article)

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Spacers and valved holding chambers in asthma drug delivery: how many breaths are needed to achieve adequate lung deposition?, Christina E. Ciaccio and Jay M. Portnoy (Response or Comment)

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The correlation of fluid balance changes during cardiopulmonary bypass to mortality in pediatric and congenital heart surgery patients., Gary Grist, Carrie Whittaker, Kellie Merrigan, Jason Fenton, Elizabeth Worrall, James O'Brien, and Gary Lofland (Article)

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Percutaneous implantation of the Edwards SAPIEN transcatheter heart valve for conduit failure in the pulmonary position: early phase 1 results from an international multicenter clinical trial., Damien Kenny, Ziyad M. Hijazi, Saibal Kar, John Rhodes, Michael Mullen, Raj Makkar, Girish S. Shirali, Mark Fogel, John Fahey, Mary G. Heitschmidt, and Christopher Cain (Article)

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Analysis of the pediatric surgery match: factors predicting outcome., Jason D. Fraser, Pablo Aguayo, Shawn D. St Peter, Dan J. Ostlie, G W. Holcomb III, Walter S. Andrews, J Patrick Murphy, Ronald J. Sharp, and Charles L. Snyder (Article)

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Detection of toxigenic Clostridium difficile in pediatric stool samples: An evaluation of Quik Check Complete Antigen assay, BD GeneOhm Cdiff PCR, and ProGastro Cd PCR assays, Suresh B. Selvaraju, Megan Gripka, Kristen Estes, Ashley Nguyen, Mary Anne Jackson, and Rangaraj Selvarangan (Article)

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Dietary modifications alone do not improve bone mineral density in children with idiopathic hypercalciuria., A L. Schwaderer, Tarak Srivastava, L Schueller, R Cronin, J D. Mahan, and D Hains (Article)

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Margaret Mitchell's lost letter to a Kansas horse buggy doctor., Jane F. Knapp and Robert Schremmer (Article)

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Molecular methods and platforms for infectious diseases testing: A review of FDA-approved and cleared assays, Rajyasree Emmadi, Jerry B. Boonyaratanakornkit, Rangaraj Selvarangan, Venkatakrishna Shyamala, Barbara L. Zimmer, Laurina Williams, Bonita Bryant, Ted Schutzbank, Michele M. Schoonmaker, Jean A. Amos Wilson, Leslie Hall, Preeti Pancholi, and Kathryn Bernard (Article)

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Non-geometric echocardiographic indices of ventricular function in patients with a Fontan circulation., Jonathan Rhodes, Renee Margossian, Lynn A. Sleeper, Piers Barker, Timothy J. Bradley, Minmin Lu, Mark Fogel, Matthew A. Harris, Wyman W. Lai, Andrew J. Powell, Michael D. Puchalski, Girish S. Shirali, Steven D. Colan, and Pediatric Heart Network Investigators (Article)

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Quincke's disease, Warren Johnson, Nirav Shastri, and Milton Fowler (Article)

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Single-site umbilical laparoscopic segmental small bowel resection., Shawn D. St Peter (Article)

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The necessity for prospective evidence for single-site umbilical laparoscopic surgery., Shawn D. St Peter and Daniel J. Ostlie (Article)

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The use of high-frequency oscillating ventilation to facilitate stability during neonatal thoracoscopic operations., Vincent E. Mortellaro, Frankie B. Fike, Obinna O. Adibe, David Juang, Pablo Aguayo, Daniel J. Ostlie, G W. Holcomb III, and Shawn D. St Peter (Article)

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Unique phenotype in a patient with CHARGE syndrome., Shobhit Jain, Hyung-Goo Kim, Felicitas Lacbawan, Irene Meliciani, Wolfgang Wenzel, Ingo Kurth, Josefina Sharma, Morris Schoeneman, Svetlana Ten, Lawrence C. Layman, and Elka Jacobson-Dickman (Article)

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Addressing inpatient crowding by smoothing occupancy at children's hospitals, Evan S. Fieldston, Matthew Hall, Samir S. Shah, Paul D. Hain, Marion R. Sills, Anthony D. Slonim, Angela L. Myers, Courtney Cannon, and Susmita Pati (Article)

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Executive summary: the management of community-acquired pneumonia in infants and children older than 3 months of age: clinical practice guidelines by the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America., John S. Bradley, Carrie L. Byington, Samir S. Shah, Brian Alverson, Edward R. Carter, Christopher Harrison, Sheldon L. Kaplan, Sharon E. Mace, George H. McCracken, Matthew R. Moore, Shawn D. St Peter, Jana A. Stockwell, Jack T. Swanson, and Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (Article)

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Management of anterior mediastinal masses in children., C L. Garey, C A. Laituri, P A. Valusek, Shawn D. St Peter, and Charles L. Snyder (Article)

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Otoscopic signs of otitis media., Nader Shaikh, Alejandro Hoberman, Phillip H. Kaleida, Howard E. Rockette, Marcia Kurs-Lasky, Hunter Hoover, Michael E. Pichichero, Oliver F. Roddey, Christopher J. Harrison, James A. Hadley, and Richard H. Schwartz (Article)

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Prolonged QT in a 13-year-old patient with Down syndrome and complete atrioventricular canal defect., Svjetlana Tisma-Dupanovic, Rengasamy Gowdamarajan, Ilan Goldenberg, David T. Huang, Timothy Knilans, and Jeffrey A. Towbin (Article)

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Single incision versus standard 3-port laparoscopic appendectomy: a prospective randomized trial., Shawn D. St Peter, Obinna O. Adibe, David Juang, Susan W. Sharp, Carissa L. Garey, Carrie A. Laituri, J Patrick Murphy, Walter S. Andrews, Ronald J. Sharp, Charles L. Snyder, G W. Holcomb III, and Daniel J. Ostlie (Article)

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Strategies for the prevention of central venous catheter infections: an American Pediatric Surgical Association Outcomes and Clinical Trials Committee systematic review., Eunice Y. Huang, Catherine Chen, Fizan Abdullah, Gudrun Aspelund, Douglas C. Barnhart, Casey M. Calkins, Robert A. Cowles, Cynthia D. Downard, Adam B. Goldin, Steven L. Lee, Shawn D. St Peter, Marjorie J. Arca, and 2011 American Pediatric Surgical Association Outcomes and Clinical Trials Committee (Article)

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Mast cell activation and clinical outcome in pediatric cholelithiasis and biliary dyskinesia., Craig A. Friesen, Nancy Neilan, James F. Daniel, Kim Radford, Jennifer Verrill Schurman, Ding-You Li, Linda Andre, Shawn D. St Peter, and G W. Holcomb III (Article)

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An electronic daily diary process study of stress and health behavior triggers of primary headaches in children., Mark Connelly and Jennifer Bickel (Article)

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Appropriate allergy testing and interpretation., Jay M. Portnoy (Article)

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Experience with pilonidal disease in children., Frankie B. Fike, Vincent E. Mortellaro, David Juang, Daniel J. Ostlie, and Shawn D. St Peter (Article)

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Laparoscopic adrenalectomy in children: a multicenter experience., Shawn D. St Peter, Patricia A. Valusek, Sarah Hill, Mark L. Wulkan, Sohail S. Shah, Marcello Martinez Ferro, Horatio Bignon, Pablo Laje, Peter A. Mattei, Kathleen D. Graziano, Oliver J. Muensterer, Elizabeth M. Pontarelli, Nam X. Nguyen, Timothy D. Kane, Faisal G. Qureshi, Casey M. Calkins, Charles M. Leys, Joanne E. Baerg, and G W. Holcomb III (Article)

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Laparoscopic appendectomy in children with complicated appendicitis: ethnic disparity amid changing trend., Tolulope A. Oyetunji, Benedict C. Nwomeh, Sharon K. Ong'uti, Dani O. Gonzalez, Edward E. Cornwell, and Terrence M. Fullum (Article)

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Neutropenic colitis in children., Frankie B. Fike, Vincent Mortellaro, David Juang, Shawn D. St Peter, Walter S. Andrews, and Charles L. Snyder (Article)

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Occurrence of Crohn's disease in children after total colectomy for ulcerative colitis., Vincent E. Mortellaro, Jonathan Green, Saleem Islam, Julie A. Bass, Frankie B. Fike, and Shawn D. St Peter (Article)

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Pediatric dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans: multi-institutional outcomes., Corey W. Iqbal, Shawn D. St Peter, and Michael B. Ishitani (Article)

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The impact of postoperative abscess formation in perforated appendicitis., Frankie B. Fike, Vincent E. Mortellaro, David Juang, Susan W. Sharp, Daniel J. Ostlie, and Shawn D. St Peter (Article)

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The lack of efficacy for oral contrast in the diagnosis of appendicitis by computed tomography., Carrie A. Laituri, Jason D. Fraser, Pablo Aguayo, Frankie B. Fike, Carissa L. Garey, Susan W. Sharp, Daniel J. Ostlie, and Shawn D. St Peter (Article)

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The predictive value of Haller index in patients undergoing pectus bar repair for pectus excavatum., Vincent E. Mortellaro, Corey W. Iqbal, Frankie B. Fike, Susan W. Sharp, Daniel J. Ostlie, Charles L. Snyder, and Shawn D. St Peter (Article)

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Treadmill injuries in the pediatric population., David Juang, Frankie B. Fike, Carrie A. Laituri, Vincent E. Mortellaro, and Shawn D. St Peter (Article)

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Treatment of appendicitis in neutropenic children., Vincent E. Mortellaro, David Juang, Frankie B. Fike, Constantine G. Saites, D Dean Potter, Corey W. Iqbal, Charles L. Snyder, and Shawn D. St Peter (Article)

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Visual diagnosis: Swelling of the left side of the neck in an adolescent, Raghu Varier, Laura Plencner, Douglas Rivard, and Angela L. Myers (Article)

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Accuracy of administrative billing codes to detect urinary tract infection hospitalizations, Joel S. Tieder, Matthew Hall, Katherine A. Auger, Paul D. Hain, Karen E. Jerardi, Angela L. Myers, Suraiya S. Rahman, Derek J. Williams, and Samir S. Shah (Article)

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Consent for emergency medical services for children and adolescents., Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Committee on Bioethics. and Gregory P. Conners (Article)

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Diagnosis of gastroesophageal reflux disease in infants., Frankie B. Fike, Vincent E. Mortellaro, Janine N. Pettiford, Daniel J. Ostlie, and Shawn D. St Peter (Article)

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Mechanism of injury predicts case fatality and functional outcomes in pediatric trauma patients: the case for its use in trauma outcomes studies., Adil H. Haider, Joseph G. Crompton, Tolulope A. Oyetunji, Donald Risucci, Stephen DiRusso, Hatice Basdag, Cassandra V. Villegas, Zain U. Syed, Elliott R. Haut, and David T. Efron (Article)

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The utility of computed tomography in the management of patients with spontaneous pneumothorax., Carrie A. Laituri, Patricia A. Valusek, Douglas C. Rivard, Carissa L. Garey, Daniel J. Ostlie, Charles L. Snyder, and Shawn D. St Peter (Article)

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Was the pediatric emergency department or pediatric urgent care center setting more affected by the fall 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreak?, Gregory P. Conners, Tracy Hartman, Milton A. Fowler, Lisa L. Schroeder, and Thomas W. Tryon (Article)

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Electronic medical records and personalized medicine., Mark A Hoffman and Marc S Williams (Article)

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Factors associated with serum brain natriuretic peptide levels after the Fontan procedure., Andrew M. Atz, Victor Zak, Roger E. Breitbart, Steven D. Colan, Sara K. Pasquali, Daphne T. Hsu, Minmin Lu, Lynn Mahony, Stephen M. Paridon, Michael D. Puchalski, Tal Geva, Brian W. McCrindle, Pediatric Heart Network Investigators, and Girish S. Shirali (Article)

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Medical-Legal Partnership: Evolution or Revolution?, Pamela C. Tames, Colleen M. Cotter, Suzette M. Melendez, Steve Scudder, and Jeffrey D. Colvin (Article)

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Pediatric button battery and small magnet coingestion: two cases with different outcomes., Nirav Shastri, Charles Leys, Milton Fowler, and Gregory P. Conners (Article)

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Redefining hypotension in the elderly: normotension is not reassuring., Tolulope A. Oyetunji, David C. Chang, Joseph G. Crompton, Wendy R. Greene, David T. Efron, Elliott R. Haut, Edward E. Cornwell, and Adil H. Haider (Article)

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Case records of the Children's Mercy Hospital: A 12-year-old girl with a straddle injury., Kelly A. Sinclair and Jane F. Knapp (Article)

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Comments on Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) guidelines., Sheldon Spector, Dana Wallace, Richard Nicklas, Jay M. Portnoy, Joann Blessing-Moore, David Bernstein, Linda Cox, John Oppenheimer, David Lang, Diane Schuller, Christopher Randolph, Stephen Tilles, David Khan, and Mark Dykewicz (Response or Comment)

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Developing and testing a clinical information system evaluation tool: prioritizing modifications through end-user input., Janis B. Smith, Susan R. Lacey, Arthur R. Williams, Susan L. Teasley, Adrienne Olney, Cheri Hunt, Karen S. Cox, and Carol Kemper (Article)

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Early-stage gallbladder cancer in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database: effect of extended surgical resection., Stephanie R. Downing, Kerry-Ann Cadogan, Gezzer Ortega, Tolulope A. Oyetunji, Suryanarayana M. Siram, David C. Chang, Nita Ahuja, LaSalle D. Leffall, and Wayne A. Frederick (Article)

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False-positive results of campylobacter rapid antigen testing, Angela Myers, Mary Anne Jackson, and Rangaraj Selvarangan (Letter to the Editor)

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Influenza coinfection and outcomes in children with complicated pneumonia, Derek J. Williams, Matthew Hall, Thomas V. Brogan, Reid W.D. Farris, Angela L. Myers, Jason G. Newland, and Samir S. Shah (Article)

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Molecular epidemiology and clinical presentation of human adenovirus infections in Kansas City children, Suresh B. Selvaraju, Michelle Kovac, Laura M. Dickson, Adriana E. Kajon, and Rangaraj Selvarangan (Article)

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Mycobacterium sherrisii sp. nov., a slow-growing non-chromogenic species, Jakko van Ingen, Enrico Tortoli, Rangaraj Selvarangan, Marie B. Coyle, John A. Crump, Anne B. Morrissey, P. N. Richard Dekhuijzen, Martin J. Boeree, and Dick van Soolingen (Article)

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Quality of life assessment between laparoscopic appendectomy at presentation and interval appendectomy for perforated appendicitis with abscess: analysis of a prospective randomized trial., Jennifer Verrill Schurman, Christopher C. Cushing, Carissa L. Garey, Carrie A. Laituri, and Shawn D. St Peter (Article)

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Surgical management of complete atrioventricular septal defect: associations with surgical technique, age, and trisomy 21., Andrew M. Atz, John A. Hawkins, Minmin Lu, Meryl S. Cohen, Steven D. Colan, James Jaggers, Ronald V. Lacro, Brian W. McCrindle, Renee Margossian, Ralph S. Mosca, Lynn A. Sleeper, L LuAnn Minich, Pediatric Heart Network Investigators, and Girish S. Shirali (Article)

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Renin-angiotensin-aldosterone genotype influences ventricular remodeling in infants with single ventricle., Seema Mital, Wendy K. Chung, Steven D. Colan, Lynn A. Sleeper, Cedric Manlhiot, Cammon B. Arrington, James F. Cnota, Eric M. Graham, Michael E. Mitchell, Elizabeth Goldmuntz, Jennifer S. Li, Jami C. Levine, Teresa M. Lee, Renee Margossian, Daphne T. Hsu, Pediatric Heart Network Investigators, and Girish S. Shirali (Article)

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Bone marrow cavity: A supportive environment for islet engraftment, Karen Kover, Pei Ying Tong, Donna M. Pacicca, Mark A. Clements, Ariel M. Bodker, Christine Eidson, Mary Sheldon, Audrey Southard, Adnan Zaidi, and Wayne V. Moore (Article)

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Comparative effectiveness of pleural drainage procedures for the treatment of complicated pneumonia in childhood, Samir S. Shah, Matthew Hall, Jason G. Newland, Thomas V. Brogan, Reid W.D. Farris, Derek J. Williams, Gitte Larsen, Bryan R. Fine, James E. Levin, Jeffrey S. Wagener, Patrick H. Conway, and Angela L. Myers (Article)

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Does the pattern of injury in elderly pedestrian trauma mirror that of the younger pedestrian?, Suryanarayana M. Siram, Victor Sonaike, Oluwaseyi B. Bolorunduro, Wendy R. Greene, Sonja Z. Gerald, David C. Chang, Edward E. Cornwell, and Tolulope A. Oyetunji (Article)

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Evaluation of Kawasaki disease risk-scoring systems for intravenous immunoglobulin resistance., Lynn A. Sleeper, L Luann Minich, Brian M. McCrindle, Jennifer S. Li, Wilbert Mason, Steven D. Colan, Andrew M. Atz, Beth F. Printz, Annette Baker, Victoria L. Vetter, Jane W. Newburger, Pediatric Heart Network Investigators, and Girish S. Shirali (Article)

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Interobserver agreement in the assessment of clinical findings in children with first unprovoked seizures., Peter S. Dayan, Kathleen Lillis, Jonathan Bennett, Gregory P. Conners, Pam Bailey, James Callahan, Cidgem Akman, Neil Feldstein, W Allen Hauser, and Nathan Kuppermann (Article)

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Outcomes in children with hypoplastic left heart syndrome undergoing open fundoplication., Carissa L. Garey, Carrie A. Laituri, Pablo Aguayo, James E. O'Brien, Ronald J. Sharp, Shawn D. St Peter, and Daniel J. Ostlie (Article)

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Parathyroid-hormone-related protein-mediated hypercalcemia in benign congenital mesoblastic nephroma., Tarak Srivastava, Alexander Kats, T John Martin, Suelli Pompolo, and Uri S. Alon (Article)