Pediatric surgery

Pediatric surgery means surgery of children from infancy to puberty, belongs to the field of both pediatrics and surgery. A pediatric patient should not be treated as a proportionally small sized adult patient. Although the child and adult has same organs and structured, but the maturity of tissue, proportion, and consistency are quite different. So it needs the combination of embryological, genetic, anatomical, physiological, and pathological knowledge to care and treat pediatric surgical patients. Most of the surgical problems of pediatric patients are congenital anomalies or structural defects that need to be repaired or reconstructed. Pediatric surgery is the combination of pediatrics, general surgery, plastic surgery, chest surgery, urology, and microsurgery.  

 Pediatric surgery belongs to a division of Surgical department in Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, the main staff is the chief Ping-Kuang Sung, MD. Who has been member of board of Taiwanese Pediatric Surgery for more than 10 years, and was a research fellow for P.K.Donohoe in Massachusset General Hospital, Boston, MA. from 1995 to 1996.

The categories of pediatric surgical diseases are :

Neck masses, cysts and sinuses.

Torticollis

Phimosis and paraphimosis, labiosynechia

Inguinal hernia and hydrocele

Undescended testis, testicular torsion

Anal fissure and fistula, perianal abscess

Umbilical granuloma, umbilical hernia,omphalitis,wet umbilicus

Thoracic dystrophy, funnel chest, pigeon chest

Congenital diaphragmatic hernia

Congenital deformities of lung, lung abscess,pyothorax, chylothorax, pneumothorax

Choana atresia, laryngeal obstruction, tracheal obstruction

Esophageal atresia and TE fistula

Gasstroesophageal reflux, esophageal achalasia, caustic esophageal burn, esophageal foreign bodies, esophageal diverticulum

Pyloric stenosis, gastric perforation, gastric volvulus, pep[tic ulcer disease

Duodenal obstruction

Intestinal atresia, malrotation, volvulus

Meconium ileus, meconium peritonitis, meconium plug syndrome

Meckel’s diverticulum and omphalomesenteric duct remnants, Duplications

Hirschsprung’s disease

Necrotizing enterocolitis, perforation, peritonitis, short bowel syndrome

Intussusception

Appendicitis

Inflammatory bowel disease, GI bleeding

Anorectal malformations

Biliary atresia,choledochal cyst, cholelithiasis

Pancreatic cyst, pseudocyst

Portal hypertension, splenic trauma, hypersplenism

Gastroschisis and omphalocele

Prune belly syndrome, exstrophy

Conjoined twins

Renal dysplasia, UPJ stenosis, vesicoureteral reflux, hypospadias and epispadias, ureterocele, posterior urethral valves

Abdominal tumors, neuroblastoma, nephroblastoma, teratomas, gonadal tumors

Hemangioma and lymphangioma

Trauma

Out-Patient schedule :  2pm – 5pm every Tuesday and Thursday

Phone Number :  07-3422121 ext 3089                                                 

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