Pediatric surgery is a subspecialty of surgery involving surgery of foetuses, infants, children, adolescents,and young adults.
Common paediatric diseases that may require pediatric surgery include:
Congenital malformations
- Lymphangioma
- Cleft lip and palate
- Esophageal atresia and tracheoesophageal fistula
- Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis
- Intestinal atresia
- Necrotizing enterocolitis
- Meconium plugs
- Hirschsprung's disease
- Imperforate anus
- Undescended testes
Congenital cases
- Congenital diseases of the lung
- Emphysemas, congenital cysts of the lung and mediastinum
Abdominal wall defects
- Omphalocele
- Gastroschisis
- Hernias
Chest wall deformities
- Pectus excavatum
Childhood tumours
- Neuroblastoma
- Wilms' tumor
- Rhabdomyosarcoma
- ATRT
- Liver tumors
- Teratomas
