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Children's Hospital at Lexington

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Pediatric and adolescent specialty referrals
   Phone: 781.672.2100
   Fax: 781.672.2145
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   Phone: 781.672.2300
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   Phone: 781.672.2010
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   Phone:
781.672.2200
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781.672.2030



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Phone: 800.355.7944





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Children's Hospital at Lexington offers advanced services

The state-of-the-art outpatient facility at Children’s Hospital at Lexington offers 24 specialty services and 11 ancillary services, and is staffed by the same physicians who deliver world-class care at Children’s Hospital Boston. With the recent addition of an outpatient electro-encephalography (EEG) laboratory and an open extremities MRI, the Lexington facility now offers high-technology diagnostic tools once available only in the city.

Lexington opened its new EEG lab in January. It is staffed by Children’s EEG technologists who perform the same diagnostic tests patients would undergo at Children’s main campus. The recordings are electronically transmitted to Children’s Department of Neurology in Boston for prompt interpretation by the epilepsy team.

Also available at the Lexington facility is a new, unenclosed extremity MRI. Patients with site-specific injuries sit comfortably in a chair, placing only their ankle, knee, hand, wrist or elbow into the doughnut-shaped magnet. The open magnet is ideal for young children and patients made anxious or claustrophobic by a traditional MRI. Children’s radiologists specializing in musculoskeletal injuries and disease read the scans the same day they are taken, making the entire MRI process quick and effecient.

EEG tests are available by appointment at 8:30 a.m., 10 a.m. and noon. every Tuesday and Thursday. Physicians can schedule a test by calling the clinic scheduling line at (781) 672-2100. Parents with specific questions or concerns about the process can call Children’s EEG laboratory at (617) 355-7970.

For more information on the extremity MRI, contact Children’s Department of Radiology in Boston at (617) 355-6286 or in Lexington at (781) 672-2200.

Children’s Hospital at Lexington is conveniently located off of Rte. 128.


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New MRIs give patients more comfortable scan