Dr. Michael L. Ritchey M.D.
Urologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Urology
1920 E Cambridge Ave Suite 302 Phoenix AZ, 85006Rating
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Dr. Michael Ritchey practices Pediatric Urology in Phoenix, AZ. 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. Ritchey is a surgeon who diagnoses, treats, and manages voiding disorders, vesicoureteral reflux, and urinary tract infections that require surgery. Some procedures that Dr. Ritchey 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
Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans 1979
Board Certification
UrologyAmerican Board of UrologyABU- Pediatric Urology
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The role of preoperative chemotherapy for Wilms' tumor: the NWTSG perspective. National Wilms' Tumor Study Group.
- Factors affecting the risk of contralateral Wilms tumor development: a report from the National Wilms Tumor Study Group.
- New concepts of histological changes in experimental augmentation cystoplasty: insights into the development of neoplastic transformation at the enterovesical and gastrovesical anastomosis.
- Wilms tumour: diagnosis and treatment.
- Renal failure in the Denys-Drash and Wilms' tumor-aniridia syndromes.
- Wilms' tumor. Overview of National Wilms' Tumor Study Group results.
- Dysfunctional voiding.
- Advantages of rectus fascial slings for urinary incontinence in children with neuropathic bladders.
- Controversies in the management of Wilms' tumor.
- Recent progress in the biology and treatment of Wilms' tumor.
- Outpatient management of phimosis following newborn circumcision.
- Outcome of children with cystic partially differentiated nephroblastoma treated with or without chemotherapy.
- Retroperitoneal neurogenous choristoma.
- Chylous ascites following surgical treatment for wilms tumor.
- Single system ectopic ureters and ureteroceles associated with dysplastic kidney.
Treatments
- Neurogenic Bladder
- Urinary Incontinence
- Birth Defects
- Hernia
- Stress Incontinence
- Urinary Tract Infection (uti)
- Varicocele
- Inguinal Hernia
- Blepharoplasty-eyelids
Professional Memberships
- Fellow Fellow, American Academy of Pediactrics
- Fellow American College of Surgeons, Society of Pediatric Urology
- Member American Urological Association
- Member American Association of Pediatric Urologists
- Member Children's Oncology Group
Fellowships
- Pediatric Urology Fellowship - Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
- (Pediatric Urology), MAYO CLINIC, ROCHESTER, MN 1986
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