Minimally Invasive Therapy Center

MIS Procedures

Pediatric Surgery

The Division of Pediatric Surgery offers comprehensive pediatric surgical care, including the latest minimally invasive procedures, for children up to 18 years of age. We have surgeons in multiple specialties who have a high-level of expertise in minimally invasive surgery, with some surgeons specifically focused in this area. In fact, the University of Maryland Hospital for Children has been performing minimally invasive operations on children since the early 90's.

Minimally invasive treatments include:

Diagnostic laparoscopy
Diagnostic thoracoscopy
Laparoscopic abdominal mass resection/biopsy
Laparoscopic adrenalectomy
Laparoscopic appendectomy
Laparoscopic colectomy
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy
Laparoscopic lymph node biopsy
Laparoscopic nephrectomy
Laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication and gastrostomy tube placement
Laparoscopic orchiodpexy
Laparoscopic pyloromyotomy
Laparoscopic reduction of intussusception
Laparoscopic splenectomy
Laparoscopic varicocelectomy
Nuss procedure (for correction of pectus excavatum)
Thoracascopic bleb resection and pleurodesis/pleurectomy
Thoracoscopic decortication (for empyema)
Thoracascopic esophageal duplication resection
Thoracascopic mediastinal mass biopsy/resection
Thoracoscopic pulmonary wedge resection
Thoracascopic thymectomy

This page was last updated on: July 23, 2007.

If you would like to make an appointment or talk to someone about our services, please call 1-800-492-5538 (patients) or 1-800-373-4111 (physicians).