Dr. David Emile Sawaya MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
1980 Tybee Lane Lake Charles LA, 70605Rating
5/5
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Dr. David Sawaya practices Pediatric Surgery in Lake Charles, LA. Dr. Sawaya 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. Sawayadiagnoses, 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
Louisiana State Univ School Of Medicine In New Orleans 1994
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Prehospital predictors of risk for pelvic fractures in pediatric trauma patients.
- Stapled intestinal anastomosis in neonates: validation of safety and efficacy.
- Gastric metastasis from an alveolar soft part sarcoma in a child: case report and review of the literature.
- Staged closure with negative pressure wound therapy for gastroschisis with liver herniation: a case report.
- Resection of a giant hepatic adenoma in an eight-year-old girl.
- Epiploic Appendagitis: A Rare Cause of Acute Abdominal Pain in Children. Report of a Case and Review of the Pediatric Literature.
- Prior exercise suppresses the plasma tumor necrosis factor response to bacterial lipopolysaccharide.
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