Clinic for Child Surgery

 1. Medical service portfolio

Surgical attendance to children from birth to the age of 15 – neonatal surgery – oncologic surgery – children’s urology – therapy of congenital malformations – general children’s surgery.

 2. Specific main focuses of medical care 

Operative emphases:

• Congenial and acquired diseases and dysfunctions of the chest and abdominal organs
• Congenial and acquired diseases and dysfunctions of the kidney, the urinary tract, and the genital organs
• Congenital malformations such as occlusions of the intestine, the esophagus, abdominal gap 
• Tumor diseases at children’s age
• Minimally-invasive surgery (keyhole surgery) at the abdominal cavity and chest
• Maldevelopments or diseases of the body surface / of the integument or the soft tissue in the head / neck / trunk area and at extremities
• Therapy of burns, scalds and in cases of swallowing or intrusion of foreign bodies or chemicals
• Plastic surgery, treatment of congenital vascular malformations and hemangiomas, including laser and cryotherapy (cold)
• Diagnostics and therapy of the digestive and the urinary tract and of respiratory organs by means of endoscopic techniques
• Operative interventions in cooperation with the Clinics for Accident Surgery, ENT Medicine, Neurosurgery, Hand Surgery, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Eye Clinic and Radiology
• Ambulatory operations from the seventh month of life
• Pediatric surgical emergency care of most severely injured in cooperation with the Accident Surgery

Conservative emphases:  

• Functional diagnostics of the large and the straight intestine, anorectal manometry
• Functional bladder diagnostics (incontinence and enuresis)
• Interdisciplinary diagnostics in cooperation with the Children’s Radiologic Department and the Clinic for Nuclear Medicine
• Interdisciplinary cooperation within the Perinatal Center including prenatal consultation

 3. Further services offered

• General consultation hours and private outpatients’ treatment
• Pediatric urologic consultation
• Special consulting hours for specific patient groups: ambulatory indication and aftercare 
• Department medical specialist 24 hours on duty in the house
• Advisory services for specific patient groups, conciliar services
• Unrestricted co-admittance and accommodation facilities for escorts
• Periodical events for general practitioners and medical specialists
• Full authorization to postgraduate professional education 
• Weekly internal advanced training, participation in quality circles
• Advanced training events for doctors and nursing staff 
• Lectures at and attendance of national and international conventions