Dr. Melvyn P. Karp M.D.
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
9980 Central Pk. Blvd Suite 206 Boca Raton FL, 33496Rating
5/5
About
Dr. Melvyn Karp practices Pediatric Surgery in Boca Raton, FL. Dr. Karp 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. Karpdiagnoses, 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.
Education and Training
Suny-Hlth Sci Ctr At Brooklyn, Coll of Med, Brooklyn Ny 1974
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine 1969
Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Yeshiva University
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
DermatologyAmerican Board of DermatologyABD
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- American Pediatric Surgical Association principles of pediatric trauma care.
- Acute scrotal swelling as the first evidence of intraabdominal trauma in a battered child.
- Fungal infection of a vascular prosthesis.
- Fungal infection of a vascular prosthesis.
- The effect of the immunomodulator corynebacterium parvum on hemisplenectomized mice.
- Talc pleurodesis during videothoracoscopy for Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia-related pneumothorax. A new technique.
Treatments
- Burns
- Concussion
- Birth Defects
- Hernia
- Leukemia
- Umbilical Hernia
- Dermal Aesthetics
Professional Memberships
- Member SURGICAL CARE COMM ST MARYS MED CENTER
- Member QUALITY ASSURANCE COMM/WEST BOCA MEDICAL CENTER
- Member COMMITTEE ON TRAUMA/STATE OF FLORIDA
- Member TRAUMA QUALITY ASSURANCE COMM/PALM BEACH COUNTY
- Member AMERICAN PEDIATRIC SURGICAL ASSOCIATION
- Member AMERICIAN ASSOCIATION FOR SUSRGERY OF TRAUMA
- Member AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS
- Member AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS
Fellowships
- PEDIATRIC SURGERY, CHILDRENS HOSPITAL BUFFALO, BUFFALO, NY 1979
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