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 Jih teng Lee , MD. has been member of board of Taiwanese Pediatric Surgery
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 3001