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Pediatric Surgery Lab
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A lab that studies surgical diseases in children from newborns to school age, from basic research to treatment.
AboutAbout the lab
Children are not miniature adults.
Pediatric Surgery is a lab that treats congenital anomalies, tumors, and functional disorders in children from newborns to age 15.
It covers organs of the neck, chest, abdomen, and pelvis, an area that requires knowledge and skills specific to children.
Research centers on the themes held since the lab's founding: surgical metabolism and nutrition, pediatric malignant solid tumors, biliary atresia, and the development and function of the gastrointestinal tract.
Taking advantage of being a general hospital, the lab works with the departments of pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and adult specialties to build a system that provides continuous care from fetus to adulthood.
Key terms
- Central venous nutrition
- A method of delivering nutrition directly through a large vein when a person cannot eat enough by mouth
- Neuroblastoma
- A malignant tumor arising from the cells that give rise to nerves, common in infants and young children
- Biliary atresia
- A disease of unknown cause occurring from the newborn period to early infancy, in which the bile ducts become blocked and jaundice appears
NewsLab news
Paper by a Project Assistant Professor published in Pediatric Surgery International
Paper comparing postoperative bowel function in Hirschsprung disease published in Pediatric Surgery International
Paper by an Assistant Professor published in JPGN Reports
Paper by an Assistant Professor published in the international journal Hepatology Communications
Paper on acute epididymitis in children published in Pediatric Surgery International
ResearchResearch themes
Pediatric Surgery deals with congenital anomalies, tumors, and functional disorders in newborns, infants, and school-age children who are in the process of growth and development. Research centers on the themes held since the lab's founding: surgical metabolism and nutrition, pediatric malignant solid tumors, biliary atresia, and the development and function of the gastrointestinal tract.
*Illustrative imageNutritional management in pediatric surgery
The lab has focused on central venous nutrition in children. It has demonstrated its usefulness across a range of topics, from studies of nutrient composition and dosage, to intermittent administration that frees children from being tethered to an infusion, to nutritional management at home.
*Illustrative imagePediatric malignant solid tumors
The lab aims to apply findings from basic research and translational research on neuroblastoma, hepatoblastoma, and other tumors to clinical practice. It has worked on treatment stratification based on RNA diagnosis of neuroblastoma, and on new therapies using cytokine gene transfer and oncolytic viruses.
*Illustrative imageHepatobiliary diseases
The lab conducts basic and clinical research on biliary atresia and congenital biliary dilatation. It has worked on testing the hypothesis that the cause is viral in origin, clarifying the pathology from the perspective of innate immunity and cytokines, and developing new imaging diagnostics to track the postoperative course.
*Illustrative imageGastrointestinal development and functional disorders
The lab has investigated the causes of Hirschsprung disease and anorectal malformations using molecular biology methods. It studies both development and function, from the migration and differentiation of enteric neurons and the signals involved in anal formation to the role of mucosal immunity in the gastrointestinal tract.
MembersFaculty
The members of Pediatric Surgery consist of faculty, staff physicians, specialty trainees, graduate students, and doctors on assignment at affiliated hospitals.As of 2026
- ProfessorTomoro Hishiki
- LecturerTetsuya Mitsunaga
- LecturerSyugo Komatsu
- Assistant ProfessorSatoru Oita
- Assistant ProfessorYunosuke Kawaguchi
- Project Assistant ProfessorWataru Kudo
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Smile Train Surgery DVIDS126461” Staff Sgt. Brendan Stephens / Public domain (cropped)
- Nutritional management in pediatric surgery: “Parenteral nutrition bag” Ashashyou / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Pediatric malignant solid tumors: “Well cell culture plates” Diane A. Reid (Photographer) / Public domain (cropped)
- Hepatobiliary diseases: “Abdominal Ultrasound Imaging in Navi Mumbai” Goleisureintl / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Gastrointestinal development and functional disorders: “Stained microscope slide” Waughd / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Gastroenterology Lab): “Endosonographiegerät” Guntau / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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