Division of Pediatric General, Thoracic and Fetal Surgery

A Guide to Your Child's Surgery

Our Surgery Guide will help you and your family prepare for your child's upcoming surgery, outlining what to expect from the first pre-op visit all the way through to her discharge.

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Minimally Invasive procedures

The Operating Room complex at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Main Campus has 10 suites specially equipped for minimally invasive procedures, with dedicated support staff and highly trained nurses. This allows us to offer a very broad range of minimally invasive laparoscopic and thoracoscopic operations. Some of the minimally invasive procedures performed by the Division of General Surgery are:

Adrenalectomy
Appendectomy
Biopsy of tumor or organs
Bleb Resection (Spontaneous Pneumothorax)
Bowel Resection
Cecostomy
Chest Wall Mass Excision
Cholangiogram
Cholecystectomy
Choledochal Cyst Excision and Repair
Colectomy
Colostomy
Crohn's Disease (Bowel resection)
Cyst Excision
Decortication
Diaphragmatic Hernia Repair
Diaphragmatic Plication
Duodenal Atresia Repair
Duplication Cyst, Excision of
Esophageal Stenosis Repair
Exploratory laparoscopy for Trauma
Foreign Body Removal
Gastrostomy Closure
Gastrostomy Revision
Heller Myotomy for Achalasia
Hepaticaoduodenostomy
Hiatal Hernia Repair
Hysterectomy
Ileostomy
Intestinal Web Repair
Jejunostomy
Liver Biopsy
Lung Biopsy
Lung Lobectomy

Lung Sequestration Resection
Lymph Node Biopsy
Lysis of Adhesions
Malrotation, Ladd’s Procedure
Mass Resection
Meckel's Diverticulum
Mediastinal Mass Excision
Morgagni Hernia Repair
Nephrectomy
Nissen Fundoplication
Oophorectomy
Orchidopexy
Ovarian Cystectomy
Pancreatectomy
Pancreatic Pseudocyst
Paraspinal Mass Excision
Pyloromyotomy (Pyloric Stenosis)
Pyloroplasty
Reduction of Intussusception
Reduction of Ovarian Torsion
Soave Pullthru (Hirschprung's)
Splenectomy
Splenectomy, Partial
Splenic Cyst Removal
Stricturoplasty
Swenson Pullthru
Sympathectomy
Thal Fundoplasty
Thoracic Duct Ligation
Thymectomy (Myasthenia Gravis)
Toupet Fundoplasty
Tracheoesophageal Fistula Repair
Tumor excision
Ulcerative Colitis, (Ileoanal Pullthru)
Urachal cyst excision

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