AHL surgeons provide outstanding surgical care to children and young adults. They are specially trained in the unique needs of our youngest patients and practice evidence-based care to achieve the best possible health outcomes.

Pediatric surgery is defined as the diagnostic, operative, and postoperative surgical care of patients from prenatal diagnosis through young adulthood.
Pediatric surgeons can perform surgery on a fetus while it is still in the womb, or on infants, children, and adolescents. Surgery may be performed to correct a birth defect, repair an injury, or treat an illness.

Services Include:

• Treatment for hernia, hydrocele, and undescended testicles
• Minimally invasive surgery of the 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)