APSP Journal of Case Reports: A New Beginning

This is apt to the discipline of pediatric surgery, as unusual anomalies are seen frequently in clinical practices. At times one tries to seek opinions and learn from experiences of other colleagues in dealing with such patients. Case reports thus become an important source of documenting such experiences and observations. In hierarchy of evidence in scientific literature, they are placed at lowest level but even then, are the important contribution to the medical literature. According to Karl Popper any proposition or theory is scientific only if it is falsifiable. Thus logically an observation can falsify an assertion. A reported case may shift the existing thinking paradigm.