Pediatric Minimally Invasive Surgery

Surgery for babies and children has changed. Instead of big incisions, pain and long hospital stays, children can have surgery done minimally invasively at Children's Hospital in Columbia, Mo. Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) allows the surgeon to use tiny, delicate instruments with the help of high resolution video cameras. This means your child has just a few tiny scars.

Our pediatric MIS team offers surgical treatment for newborns to teens up to eighteen years of age. Our pediatric minimally invasive procedures include:

Diagnostic laparoscopy
Laparoscopic appendectomy
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy
Laparoscopic fundoplication
Laparoscopic gastrostomy tube placement
Laparoscopic splenectomy
Laparoscopic adrenalectomy
Laparoscopic total colectomy
Laparoscopic ventral hernia repairs
Laparoscopic umbilical hernia repairs
Laparoscopic peritoneal dialysis catheter placement
Laparoscopic ventro-peritoneal shunt placement
Laparoscopic incisional hernia repairs
Laparoscopic pyloromyotomy
Laparoscopic salpingo-oophrectomy
Laparoscopic thoracoscopy for empyema
Laparoscopic thoracoscopic lung biopsy
Laparoscopic thoracoscopic resection for pulmonary sequestration