Dr. William R Defoor M.D.
Urologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Urology
3333 Burnet Ave Ml 5037 Cincinnati OH, 45229About
Dr. William Defoor practices Pediatric Urology in Cincinnati, OH. Pediatric urologists treat young patients who suffer from an illness or disease of the genitals or urinary tract, including the kidneys, ureters, bladder. As a pediatric urologist, Dr. Defoor is a surgeon who diagnoses, treats, and manages voiding disorders, vesicoureteral reflux, and urinary tract infections that require surgery. Some procedures that Dr. Defoor performs include surgical reconstruction of the urinary tract, hypospadias, and disorders of sex development; surgery for groin conditions in childhood; evaluation and surgical management of kidney stone disease; and surgical management of tumors and malignancies of the kidney, bladder, and testis.
Education and Training
University of Kentucky College of Medicine 1996
Board Certification
UrologyAmerican Board of UrologyABU- Pediatric Urology
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Hand-assisted laparoscopic renal and adrenal surgery.
- The risk of recurrent urolithiasis in children is dependent on urinary calcium and citrate.
- Ureteroscopy: The standard of care in the management of upper tract urolithiasis
- Editorial comment.
- A fast-growing, painless, solid scrotal mass.
- Botulinum toxin injection in the pediatric population with medically refractory neuropathic bladder.
Treatments
- Kidney Stones
- Urinary Incontinence
- Birth Defects
- Hernia
- Urinary Tract Infection (uti)
- Varicocele
- Inguinal Hernia
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