Dr. Mark L. Wulkan M.D.
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
1975 Century Blvd Ne Suite 6 Atlanta GA, 30345About
Dr. Mark Wulkan practices Pediatric Surgery in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Wulkan 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. Wulkandiagnoses, 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
Emory University School Of Medicine 1989
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Computers and the pediatric surgeon: a primer.
- Minimally invasive surgical techniques in reoperative surgery for gastroesophageal reflux disease in infants and children.
- Is the use of laparoscopy to determine presence of contralateral patent processus vaginalis justified in children greater than 2 years of age?
- Cerebral venous thrombosis after closed head injury in a child.
- Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgical excision of cystic lung disease in
- Video-assisted thoracoscopic division of vascular rings in pediatric patients.
- Pyloric duplication in a term newborn.
- Laparoscopic cystogastrostomy for the treatment of pancreatic pseudocysts in children.
- Renal artery pseudoaneurysm secondary to blunt trauma treated with microcoil embolization.
- Laparoscopic adrenalectomy for neuroblastoma in children: a report of 6 cases.
- How to make a graceful exit: lessons learned from 2 cases.
- Gastric fundoplication is effective in promoting weight gain in children with severe congenital heart defects.
- Minimally invasive thoracoscopic ultrasound for localization of pulmonary nodules in children.
- Incidental chylous fluid during hernia repair may be a harbinger of malrotation.
- Absorbable versus nonabsorbable mesh repair of congenital diaphragmatic hernias in a growing animal model.
Treatments
- Obesity
- Birth Defects
- Pain
- Hernia
- Umbilical Hernia
- Inguinal Hernia
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