Pediatric surgery is a subspecialty of surgery deals with the diseases, trauma and malformation from foetal period to teenage years. It is the only surgical specialty that is defined by the patient's age rather than by a specific condition.

Pediatric surgeons perform surgery for a very wide range of conditions like Congenital inguinal hernia, Hydrocoele, Undescended testis, Umbilical hernia, Torsion of the testis, Pyloric stenosis, liver tumors teratoma and the like .

Subspecialties of pediatric surgeries are:

Pediatric cardiothoracic, Pediatric nephrological surgery, Pediatric neurosurgery, Urological surgery, Pediatric hepatological and gastrointestinal surgery, Pediatric orthopedic surgery and Oncological surgery.