What is Paediatric Surgery?
Peadiatric Surgery is a specialised branch of General surgery. For the past forty years, Pediatric Surgery is a seperate surgical superspecality which treats just born (new born) upto eighteen years of age.
Our Department has seven operating sessions per week for each unit, we have fifteen bedded post operative intensive care ward and twenty bedded Surgical New born ward. We have specially trainee staff nurses to handle surgical new born babies, infants and older children. We have exclusive blood bank for our hospital which helps us in all blood products whenever needed.
The department has following sub specialities namely pediatric Urology, Surgical New born, Pediatric Laparascopic Surgery, Pediatric Thoracic Surgery, Pediatric Surgical Oncology and Pediatric Plastic surgery.
Common Pediatric General Surgical Conditions are:
Phimosis
Hernias
Congenital Hydrocele
Tongue Tie
Lymph Node Biopsy for TB
Lymph Node Biopsy for Lymphoma
My Advice on Common Conditions
Appendicitis
Most common acute surgical condition in pediatric age group incident is nearly nine percent in male children and seven percent in female children.
Congenital pyloric stenosis
This occurs between 4th week of age to 6 week of age, can occur in new born also, exact cause not known.
Habit Constipation
This is one of the common condition - a child with constipation may have bowel movements less frequently than normal, hard bowel movements, or large, difficult, painful bowel movements.
Hernia - Hydrocele
A small passage has developed or left open connecting the belly to baby's groin, the second common surgical condition next to phimosis.
Hypospadias
Abnormal opening of Urethral opening in the under surface of penis, very common pediatric urological problem Incidence is one in five hundred.
Intussusception
Intussusception is the invagination of one part of intestine into another. This occurs in one in 2000 infants. It is the most common abdominal emergency in infants.
Phimosis
Narrowing of foreskin or non retractile foreskin. Empty scrotum one side or both sides, can be identify in new born. It can descend in three to four months without any intervention.
Tongue Tie
Is a congenital oral anomaly which may decrease mobility of tongue tip & is caused by an unusually short thick lingual frenulum.
Undescended Testis
Undescended testis is found in 3% of term boys and 30% of preterm boys.
When the baby is formed in the womb, the testis is initially formed inside the baby’s belly.
Wilms Tumour
This is one of the most common childhood tumour, it affect the kidney, usually affects school going kids, one of the good prognostic tumour.
Dr. C. SankkaraBarathi
MBBS, MS (Gen), MCh (Paediatric Surgery)
Paediatric Surgeon
Paediatric Urologist
All Department
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