Dr. Mary Lenora Hilfiker M.D.
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
8010 Frost St Suite 414 San Diego CA, 92123Rating
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About
Dr. Mary Hilfiker practices Pediatric Surgery in San Diego, CA. Dr. Hilfiker 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. Hilfikerdiagnoses, 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
Wright State Univ Sch Of Med- Dayton Oh 1988
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Disseminated actinomycosis presenting as a renal tumor with metastases.
- Postoperative outcomes of extremely low birth-weight infants with necrotizing
- A male adolescent with left iliac thrombophlebitis and heterozygosity for factor V Leiden mutation.
- Assessing pediatric trauma specimen integrity.
- Successful treatment of congenital chylous ascites with a somatostatin analogue.
- Biologic properties of chromatographically separated murine thymoma-derived Interleukin 2 and colony-stimulating factor.
- Antigen-nonspecific helper factors in the antibody response.
- In vivo development of cytolytic T lymphocytes (CTL) to hapten-altered self: MIs-disparate cells facilitate the response by neutralizing IL 2 inhibitor.
- In vitro production of immunosuppressive factors by murine sarcoma virus-transformed mouse fibroblasts.
- Generation of alloreactive cytotoxic T lymphocytes: evidence for a differentiation factor distinct from IL 2.
- Endotoxin-induced T lymphocyte proliferation.
- Phorbol myristic acetate enhances the production of interleukin 2.
- Macrophage-independent activation of helper T cells. I. Production of Interleukin 2.
- Thymoma production of T cell growth factor (Interleukin 2).
- Placental mononuclear phagocytes as a source of interleukin-1.
Awards
- San Diego Super Doctors 2011
Fellowships
- University of Maryland Medicine, University of Maryland Medicine
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