Dr. Stephen Joseph Fenton M.D.
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
Department of Surgery Salt Lake City UT, 84132About
Dr. Stephen Fenton practices Pediatric Surgery in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Fenton 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. Fentondiagnoses, 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.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The "Tip-Stitch": a time-saving technique for specimen extraction in sleeve gastrectomy.
- Use of focused abdominal sonography for trauma at pediatric and adult trauma
- Management options for symptomatic stenosis after laparoscopic vertical sleeve gastrectomy in the morbidly obese.
- A modified laparoscopic esophagogastric dissociation for severe bile reflux in a neurologically impaired child.
- Hand-sewn gastrojejunostomy using knotless unidirectional barbed absorbable suture during laparoscopic gastric bypass.
- The role of focused abdominal sonography for trauma (FAST) in pediatric trauma evaluation.
- The utility of a "trauma 1 OP" activation at a level 1 pediatric trauma center.
- Consequences of pediatric undertriage and overtriage in a statewide trauma system.
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