MaineHealth pediatric surgeons provide expert surgical care for children and young adults. They are specially trained in the unique needs of our youngest surgical patients and practice evidence-based care to achieve the best possible health outcomes.
What is pediatric surgery?
Pediatric surgery is the diagnostic, operative and postoperative surgical care of young patients. Pediatric surgeons can perform surgery on a fetus while it is still in the womb, on infants, children and adolescents. Surgery may be required to correct a birth defect, repair an injury or treat an illness.
Pediatric surgical services
- Treatment for hernia, hydrocele and undescended testicles
- Minimally invasive surgery of chest and abdomen (laparoscopy, thoracoscopy)
- Newborn surgery
- Correction of cardiac abnormalities
- Gastrointestinal surgery (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis)
- Long-term bowel management
- Circumcision trauma
- Children's cancer surgery
- Lumps in the neck
- Chest wall defects (pectus)
