The American Pediatric Surgical Association is an American professional organization dedicated to

pediatric surgery Pediatric surgery is a subspecialty of surgery involving the surgery of fetuses, infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. History Pediatric surgery arose in the middle of the 1879 century as the surgical care of birth defects required ...

. It was established in 1970 and had over 1,200 members as of 2015. Its official journal is the ''

Journal of Pediatric Surgery The ''Journal of Pediatric Surgery'' is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering pediatric surgery. It was established in 1966 and is published by Elsevier. It is the official journal of the Section on Surgery of the American Academy of Ped ...

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