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The Warrior’s Child

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

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The Division of Pediatric Surgery in the National Capital Area is a fully integrated medical system providing all aspects of care to our young beneficiaries, the warriors' children.

Baby's hand on mother's hand.Our mission is to deliver the highest quality care to children. Clinical care centers are home based at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center .

Board certified, our pediatric surgeons complete a general surgery residency and 2 years of subspecialty fellowship training at a children’s hospital. During fellowship training, they gain the skills and experiece to care for children with special problems unique to the pediatric age group.

We are honored to care for the warrior’s child in the National Capital Area.

See also Pediatric Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Link to Plastic Reconstructive Surgery.

Conditions

The most common condition requiring pediatric surgical expertise is inguinal hernias, also called groin hernias.

Other common pediatric diseases that may require pediatric surgery include:

  • Congenital malformations: lymphangioma, cleft lip and palate,esophageal atresia and tracheoesophageal fistula, hypertrophic pyloric stenosis, intestinal atresia, necrotizing enterocolitis, meconium plugs, Hirschsprung's disease, imperforate anus, undescended testes
  • Paracardiac anomalies: patent ductus arteriosus ligation
  • Abdominal wall defects: omphalocele, gastroschisis, hernias
  • Chest wall deformities: pectus excavatum, pectus carinatum
  • Childhood tumors: like neuroblastoma, Wilms' tumor, rhabdomyosarcoma, ATRT, liver tumors, teratomas
MEDEVAC Accessible

Close to several military airbases, even the sickest child can be transported to us via MEDEVAC.

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The quest for ever-improving patient care for military readiness as well as for overall family health is our defining mission. To us, this means that our health practices are founded on the latest medical knowledge with state of the art technology. Delivery of service must, in our view, be in the trusted hands of a staff that possesses a caring, warm, and sincere human touch.
Minimally Invasive Treatments

We are the only pediatric surgical service in D.C., Maryland, or Virginia to offer the latest minimally invasive surgical options in children, including laparoscopic hernia repairs in infants.

Most recently, our use of minimally invasive technology has resulted in repairing blood vessels of very low birth weight infants without making chest wall incisions. Less trauma, less pain, quicker recovery!

We are the only pediatric surgeons in the area that offer this technique.
Appointments and Contacts:

Friday morning:
  • Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
  • Appointments - 301.295.4442

Tuesday afternoon:
  • Walter Reed Army Medical Center
  • Appointments - 202.782.6541

24 hour emergency line: 301.219.7942

See also Plastic Reconstructive Surgery. Link to Plastic Reconstructive Surgery.

 
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Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

8901 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20889-5600
(301) 295-4611; toll-free 1-800-526-7101
www.bethesda.med.navy.mil