Conditions

Children's Pediatric Surgery Practice provides comprehensive surgical care to infants, children and adolescents.
Our general pediatric surgeons treat a wide range of conditions.

 

 

  • Abdominal Trauma
  • Abdominal Tumors:
    • Neuroblastoma
    • Wilms
  • Abdominal wall defects including gastroschisis
    omphalocele, and Pentalogy of Cantrell
  • Anal fissure (tear in the skin that lines the anus)
  • Appendicitis
  • Biliary Atresia
  • Brachial Cleft Abnormality
  • Cellulitis
  • Chest wall deformities
  • Choledochal cyst (cysts of the bile ducts)
  • Circumcision
  • Cloacal Malformations
  • Cloacal exstrophy (intra-abdominal structures, such as the large intestines, are exposed at birth)
  • Conjoined twins
  • Cystic Hygromas
  • Cystic adenomatoid malformation of the lung
    and other types of bronchogenic cysts (a cystic area in the lung)
  • Diaphragmatic Hernias
  • Duodenal Atresia (condition where the first part of the small intestine does not form properly)
  • Duodenal Stenosis (partial obstruction of the small intestines due to narrowing)
  • Duplication cysts and mesenteric cysts
  • Esophageal atresia (the esophagus is shortened and closed off at some point) with or without Tracheoesophageal
    fistula (TEF) (an abnormal connection from the windpipe to the swallowing tube)
  • Esophageal stenosis (narrowing of the esophagus that leads to difficulty swallowing)
  • Gallbladder disease
  • Gastroesophageal Reflux 
  • Head and Neck tumors
  • Hernia (Umbilical/Inguinal)
  • Hepatobiliary (liver) Cysts
  • Hepatobiliary Tumors
  • Hiatal hernia (stomach pushes through the diaphram)
  • Hirschsprung's Disease
  • Hydrometrocolpos (collection of fluid in the vagina) and imperforate
    hymen (blockage of the vagina)
  • Imperforate anus (the anus and rectum do not form properly) including persistent cloaca (the vagina, rectum and urinary tract are fused)
  • Inflammatory bowel disease
  • Intestinal obstruction
  • Lung and Mediastinum (middle section of the chest cavity) Malformations
  • Necrotizing enterocolitis (infection and inflammation of the intestine)
  • Obstructions of the colon
  • Ovarian Cysts
  • Pectus Excavatum (Sunken Chest or Funnel
    Chest - depression of the breastbone)
  • Perianal Abscess (infection in the soft tissue surrounding the anal canal)
  • Pyloric stenosis 
  • Rectal Prolapse (the rectum becomes stretched out and sticks out of the anus)
  • Ribcage and sternal (breastbone) deformities
  • Teratoma (sacrococcygeal) and other tumors of the newborn
  • Torticollis
  • Umbilical anomalies including hernia, patent urachus, patent omphalo-mesenteric duct
  • Undescended Testes

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