State of Play: Eight Decades of Surgery for Esophageal Atresia.

Aim:  Surgical expertise and advances in technical equipment and perioperative management have led to enormous progress in survival and morbidity of patients with esophageal atresia (EA) in the last decades. We aimed to analyze the available literature on surgical outcome of EA for the past 80 years.

Materials And Methods:  A PubMed literature search was conducted for the years 1944 to 2017 using the keywords "esophageal/oesophageal atresia," "outcome," "experience," "management," and "follow-up/follow up.

A meta-analysis of the risk of boys with isolated cryptorchidism developing testicular cancer in later life.

Background: Significant variability exists for the relative risk (RR) of testicular malignancy in isolated cryptorchidism.

Objective: To perform a meta-analysis to clarify the true magnitude of this risk, allowing clinicians to better counsel patients and their families.

Setting: Secondary research conducted by undergraduate researchers, clinical academics and a clinical statistician.