About Pediatric Surgical Associates
Our number one priority and passion at Pediatric Surgical Associates is to care for our youths in the community. Over the years, we have treated thousands of children with multitudes of different conditions and ailments. When we established Pediatric Surgical Associates, we created specific tenets of practice to best serve our patients and their referring physicians.
These include:
- Prompt availability to referring physicians and their patients for patient consultations and procedures.
- Expert pediatric surgical care.
- Timely follow-up communications with referring physicians and their patients’ families concerning the patients’ surgical management and aftercare.
Who We Are
JUNGLE ROOM
FAIRY ROOM
CABIN ROOM
After graduating from an accredited medical school, we must complete five years of post-graduate General Surgery training in an accredited training program and a two-year fellowship training in Pediatric Surgery. As pediatric surgeons, we specialize in the surgical management and caring for a wide variety of surgical problems of neonates, infants, children, and adolescents.
We also help to counsel parents expecting a baby who may have been diagnosed before birth with a surgical problem. In short, Pediatric Surgical Associates is a group of pediatric surgeonsvery experienced in caring for a wide variety of problems children may have, ranging from hernias or appendicitis to cancer or serious congenital anomalies.
Types of Surgeries
We, surgeons of Pediatric Surgical Associates,will provide essential, cutting-edge, evidence-based surgical care for the children and their families at the hospitals and clinics in which we serve. For our patients’ convenience and accessibility, we have offices adjacent to both CHOC Children’s Hospital and CHOC at Mission. We welcome and value your phone calls and e-mails whether to help us serve you better or simply to discuss a patient or problem.
- Patient consultations and procedures
- Expert pediatric surgical care
- Timely follow-up communications
Congenital Anomaly Reconstruction
For Congenital Anomalies
Benign/Malignant
Pectus Excavatum (Nuss procedure) and Pectus Carinatum
- Appendectomy
- Cholecystomy
- Fundoplication
- Pyloric Stenosis
- Intussusception
- Malrotation
Any type of surgery performed on organs and tissues in your chest cavity, such as your lungs.
Undescended testes, circumcision
- Inguinal
- Umbilical
- Epigastric
Surgery to correct the swelling of the scrotum that occurs when you have a hydrocele. A hydrocele is the backup of fluid around a testicle.
A sac or pouch that is filled with liquid or semi-solid material.
A branchial cleft cyst is a type of birth defect, a lump develops in the child’s neck or below the collarbone. This type of birth defect is also called branchial cleft remnant.
Your children’s health and well fare are our main priorities.