Dr. Liann Nicole Handel M.D.
Urologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Urology
1425 S Main St Walnut Creek CA, 94596About
Dr. Liann Handel practices Pediatric Urology in Walnut Creek, CA. 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. Handel is a surgeon who diagnoses, treats, and manages voiding disorders, vesicoureteral reflux, and urinary tract infections that require surgery. Some procedures that Dr. Handel 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.
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