Surgery for Children
When your child needs surgery, you want the best team available.
UI Children’s Hospital has the only group of surgeons in eastern Iowa and western Illinois specifically trained in Pediatric Surgery. We specialize in the care of babies, children, and adolescents across a broad range of pediatric surgical conditions. We work with a group of pediatric anesthesiologists who care for all children during surgery.
We use the newest surgical techniques and the latest medical discoveries to provide the best possible care for your child. We offer traditional surgeries, as well as minimally invasive and robotic surgeries that reduce pain, minimize incisions, and shorten hospital stays.
Our multidisciplinary care team includes surgeons, pediatric anesthesiologists, nurses, nutritionists, pharmacists, technologists, and support staff. All team members specialize and are fully dedicated to the care of infants and children.
Pain management, nutrition, and social and psychological services are part of our holistic approach to the care of children. Our child-friendly and family-centered care includes the Child Life Program, tutoring, art and music therapy, occupational therapy, and physical therapy. We partner closely with parents and family members so we can provide the best care and the most supportive environment to children.
It’s the type of care families expect at one of the nation’s top academic medical centers.
It’s the type of care patients at UI Children’s Hospital receive.
Services
Pediatric surgical emergencies
- Abscess
- Appendicitis
- Bowel obstruction
- Central line placement
- Port placement
- Empyema
- Enlarged lymph nodes
- Hernia
- Intestinal bleeding
- Intestinal obstruction
- Ostomy care
- Pyloric stenosis
Chest wall anomalies
- Pectus deformities
- Carinatus
- Excavatus (Nuss procedure)
- Poland syndrome
Minimally invasive surgery (performed when appropriate)
- Laparoscopy
- Thoracoscopy
- Percutaneous gastrostomy tube placement
- Robotically assisted minimally invasive surgery
Gastrointestinal surgery
- Disorders of the esophagus
- Achalasia
- Esophageal stricture
- Foregut duplication and neuroenteric cysts
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
- Hiatal hernia
- Disorders of the intestines
- Short gut
- Hirschsprung's disease
- Meckel's diverticulum
- Gastrointestinal bleeding
- Perianal disease
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Crohn's disease
- Ulcerative colitis
Skin and neck conditions
- Thyroglossal duct cyst
- Moles
- Complex wound care
- Soft tissue masses
- Brachial cleft cyst
Pediatric cancer and benign (non-dangerous) tumors
- Adrenal tumors
- Chest wall tumors
- Ewing's sarcoma
- Kidney tumors
- Wilms' tumors
- Nephroblastoma
- Rhabdoid tumors
- Clear cell carcinoma of kidney
- Lung tumors
- Multiple endocrine neoplasia
- Neuroblastoma
- Ovarian tumors/cysts
- Primitive Neuroectodermal tumor
- Rhabdomyosarcoma
- Soft tissue sarcoma
- Teratoma
- Thyroid nodule
Congenital (occurring at birth) newborn malformations
- Abdominal wall defects
- Gastroschisis
- Omphalocele
- Cloacal anomalies
- Cryptorchidism (undescended testes)
- Diaphragmatic hernia
- Duodenal atresia
- Hirschprung's disease
- Imperforate anus
- Intestinal atresia
- Lung malformations
- Malrotation of the intestines
- Pulmonary malformations
- Sacrococcygeal teratoma
- Tracheal stenosis
- Tracheomalcia
- Tracheoesophageal malformations
Vascular problems
- Vascular malformations
- Lymphangiomas
- Hemangiomas
- Cystic hygromas
- Renovascular hypertension
- Aortic disease
- Vascular access
- Central line and port placement