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Neonatal surgery is a surgical sub-specialty of pediatric surgery that deals with surgical care of newborn and infants. Practicing surgeons exclusively focusing on neonates, infants in the first 28 days after birth, are called neonatal surgeons, and heavily coordinate with a hospital's NICU.

Neonatal surgeons often perform corrective surgeries, including chest, abdominal, and urological defects. Neonatal surgeons are also heavily involved in the post-operative care of patients. Neonatal surgery is the surgical counterpart to neonatology.

Neonatal surgical problems are birth defects and anomalies. Pediatric surgical diseases are general and common pediatric surgery, pediatric urology, pediatric surgical oncology and pediatric Burns.

. pediatric thoracic surgery involves diseases or injuries to the area of the body between the neck and the abdomen. Surgeons at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh specialize in general pediatric thoracic surgery, whether congenital, such as a birth defect, or acquired, such as pneumonia.