Dr. Michael P Kurtz M.D.
Urologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Urology
Massachusetts General Hospital 55 Fruit Street Boston MA, 02114About
Dr. Michael Kurtz practices Pediatric Urology in Boston, MA. Pediatric urologists treat young patients who suffer from an illness or disease of the genitals or urinary tract, including the kidneys, ureters, bladder. As a pediatric urologist, Dr. Kurtz is a surgeon who diagnoses, treats, and manages voiding disorders, vesicoureteral reflux, and urinary tract infections that require surgery. Some procedures that Dr. Kurtz performs include surgical reconstruction of the urinary tract, hypospadias, and disorders of sex development; surgery for groin conditions in childhood; evaluation and surgical management of kidney stone disease; and surgical management of tumors and malignancies of the kidney, bladder, and testis.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Perineal adenocarcinoma thirty years after proctocolectomy: report of a case.
- Use of platelet-derived growth factor for delayed perineal wound healing in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a case series.
- Accuracy of orchidometry in boys with varicocele.
- Re: Evaluation and Management of the Adolescent Varicocele: T. F. Kolon J Urol 2015; 194: 1194-1201.
- Short-term outcomes of the multi-institutional bladder exstrophy consortium: Successes and complications in the first two years of collaboration.
- The Dilemma of Adolescent Varicoceles: Do They Really Have to Be Repaired?
- What Can we Learn (and What Can't we Learn) from Observational Studies of Adolescent Varicocele Treatment?
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