Dr. Kirk W. Dabney MD
Orthopedist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery
A. I. Dupont Hospital For Children 1600 Rockland Road Wilmington DE, 19803Rating
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Dr. Kirk Dabney is a pediatric orthopaedic surgeon practicing in Wilmington, DE. Dr. Dabney specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries, diseases and disorders of the bodys musculoskeletal system in children. As a pediatric orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Dabney tends to childrens bones, ligaments, muscles, joints, nerves and tendons. Pediatric orthopaedic surgeons can treat newborns to teenagers. Some conditions Dr. Dabney treats include gait abnormalities like limping, limp and spine deformities, broken bones and bone and joint infections.
Education and Training
Jefferson Med Coll-Thos Jefferson Univ, Philadelphia Pa 1984
Board Certification
Orthopaedic SurgeryAmerican Board of Orthopaedic SurgeryABOS
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Neuromuscular junctions in cerebral palsy: presence of extrajunctional acetylcholine receptors.
- Preserving ambulatory potential in pediatric patients with cerebral palsy who undergo spinal fusion using unit rod instrumentation.
- Comparison of one-stage versus two-stage anteroposterior spinal fusion in
- Life expectancy in pediatric patients with cerebral palsy and neuromuscular scoliosis who underwent spinal fusion.
- Correction of sagittal plane spinal deformities with unit rod instrumentation in children with cerebral palsy.
- Comparison of parents' and caregivers' satisfaction after spinal fusion in children with cerebral palsy.
- Clotting parameters and thromboelastography in children with neuromuscular and idiopathic scoliosis undergoing posterior spinal fusion.
- Soft-tissue releases to treat spastic hip subluxation in children with cerebral palsy.
- The associated effects of untreated unilateral hip dislocation in cerebral palsy scoliosis.
- Serotonergic response to spinal distraction trauma in experimental scoliosis.
- Factors affecting femoral varus osteotomy in cerebral palsy: a long-term result over 10 years.
- Anterior knee pain in children with cerebral palsy.
- Fractures in patients with cerebral palsy.
- Incomplete transiliac osteotomy in skeletally mature adolescents with cerebral palsy.
- The risk of progression of scoliosis in cerebral palsy patients after intrathecal baclofen therapy.
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