Dr. Richard Paul Harmel M.D.
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
601 5th St S Department 70-6600 Saint Petersburg FL, 33701About
Dr. Richard Harmel practices Pediatric Surgery in Saint Petersburg, FL. Dr. Harmel treats children who have an illness, injury, or disease that requires surgery. Some of the surgical problems seen by pediatric surgeons are often quite different from those commonly seen by adult or general surgeons. Dr. Harmeldiagnoses, treats, and manages childrens surgical needs such as abnormalities of the groin in childhood and, surgical repair of birth defects, surgical care of tumors, transplantation operations, and endoscopic procedures.
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Tumor suppression by pyran copolymer: correlation with production of cytotoxic macrophages.
- Steroid therapy and duodenal ulcer in infants.
- Cervical small bowel transplantation in the rat: a useful tool.
- Small-bowel transplantation following portal venous injection of donor strain spleen cells.
- Suppression and regression of a transplanted tumor in the guinea pig colon mediated by Mycobacterium bovis, strain BCG.
- Suppression and regression of a transplanted tumor in the guinea pig colon mediated by Mycobacterium bovis, strain BCG.
- Arterial trauma of the upper extremity in children.
- Alteration in gastrointestinal peptide tissue levels in rejecting small bowel transplants.
- Monitoring of intestinal transplant rejection.
- Same-day discharge after appendectomy results in cost savings and improved efficiency.
- Immune tolerance of intestinal allografts in the rat.
- Operative Findings Are a Better Predictor of Resource Utilization in Pediatric Appendicitis.
- Pediatric patients transferred for operative management of appendicitis: are they at a disadvantage?
- Leakage of intraluminal low molecular weight polyethylene glycol as a marker of small bowel transplant rejection.
- Small-bowel transplantation permits survival in rats with lethal short-gut syndrome.
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