About Pediatric Surgery
Pediatric surgery is a subspecialty of surgery involving the surgery of fetuses, infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. Pediatric surgery is defined as the diagnostic, operative, and postoperative surgical care for children with congenital and acquired anomalies and diseases, be they developmental, inflammatory, neoplastic or traumatic. The scope of this discipline would focus especially on surgical problems in utero, infancy, childhood, adolescence, and sometimes, young adulthood. Certain diagnoses would require extended involvement of the pediatric surgeon during adulthood as the patient transitions to adult surgeons and providers. Pediatric surgeons diagnose, treat, and manage children's surgical needs
Including:
Surgery for abnormalities of the groin in childhood and adolescence which include undescended testes, hernias, hydroceles and varicoceles, surgical repair of hypospadias (all types), surgical repair of all pediatric swellings Surgical repair of cleft lip and palate Serious injuries that require surgery (for example, liver lacerations, knife wounds, or gun shot wounds) Diagnosis and surgical care of tumors Transplantation operations Endoscopic procedures (bronchoscopy, esophagogastroduodenoscopy, colonoscopy) All other surgical procedures for children