Dr. Adam Benjamin Hittelman M.D., PH.D.
Urologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Urology
330 Cedar Street, #208058 Department Of Urolog New Haven CT, 06520About
Dr. Adam Hittelman practices Pediatric Urology in New Haven, CT. 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. Hittelman is a surgeon who diagnoses, treats, and manages voiding disorders, vesicoureteral reflux, and urinary tract infections that require surgery. Some procedures that Dr. Hittelman 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
New York University School of Medicine 2001
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Identification and characterization of ART-27, a novel coactivator for the androgen receptor N terminus.
- Update of staging and risk assessment for prostate cancer patients.
- An oncogenic role for the multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 gene in prostate cancer.
- Editorial comment.
- Effect of mitomycin C on concentrations of vascular endothelial growth factor and its receptors in bladder cancer cells and in bladders of rats intravesically instilled with mitomycin C.
- Commentary to 'association between maternal prenatal vitamin use and congenital abnormalities of the genitourinary tract in a developing country'.
- Surface-modified nanoparticles enhance transurothelial penetration and delivery of survivin siRNA in treating bladder cancer.
- Distinguishing pediatric and adolescent renal cell carcinoma from other renal malignancies.
Treatments
- Kidney Stones
- Birth Defects
- Urinary Tract Infection (uti)
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