Pediatric General, Thoracic and Fetal Surgery
Pediatric Surgery is committed to providing comprehensive general and thoracic surgical care for infants, children and adolescents. Developing a coordinated program with healthcare systems within the region has been a longtime goal. The focus of the division has been on clinical patient care and surgical education.
Members of the pediatric specialty group have a long and broad experience in treating problems ranging from basic to complex using conventional and minimally invasive techniques. Range of services provided include:
Pediatric general surgery
- hernias, hydroceles, undescended testes, scrotal problems, circumcision
- appendectomy, intussusception, pyloric stenosis, malrotation
- anorectal surgery, pilonidal disease
- Hirschsprung's disease
- hepatobiliary surgery
- pancreatic surgery
- thyroid, thyroglossal duct cyst, branchial cleft anomalies
- breast masses
Neonatal surgery
- gastroschisis, omphalocele
- tracheoesophageal anomalies
- intestinal anomalies, imperforate anus
- necrotizing enterocolitis
- patent ductus arteriosus ligation
- congenital diaphragmatic hernia
- ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation)
Pediatric thoracic surgery
- pulmonary, esophageal, mediastinal
- airway and esophageal foreign bodies
- pectus excavatum, carinatum
Pediatric surgical oncology
- long-term venous access
- Wilms tumor
- neuroblastoma
- hepatic tumors
- Spina bifida (myelomeningocele)
- Twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome
- Congenital pulmonary airway malformation (CPAM/CCAM)
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
- Congenital high airway obstruction (CHAOS)
- Neck masses
- Lower urinary tract obstruction (LUTO)
- Ex-utero intrapartum treatment (EXIT) procedure
- Gastroschisis
- Sacrococcygeal teratoma
- Twin reversed arterial perfusion syndrome
- Amniotic band syndrome
- Hemangiomas (complex, congenital, infantile)
- Capillary malformations
- Venous malformations
- Arteriovenous malformations
- Vascular malformations
- Lymphatic malformations
- Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome
- Kasabach-Merritt syndrome/phenomenon
- Kaposiform hemangioendothelioma
- PHACE syndrome
