Dr. Richard N Yu M.D, PH.D.
Urologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Urology
300 Longwood Ave Department Of Urolog Boston MA, 02115Rating
5/5
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Dr. Richard Yu practices Pediatric Urology in Boston, MA. 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. Yu is a surgeon who diagnoses, treats, and manages voiding disorders, vesicoureteral reflux, and urinary tract infections that require surgery. Some procedures that Dr. Yu 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
Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine 2001
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Treatment of vesicoureteral reflux using endoscopic injection of nonanimal stabilized hyaluronic acid/dextranomer gel: initial experience in pediatric patients by a single surgeon.
- Renal ultrasound studies after endoscopic injection of dextranomer/hyaluronic acid copolymer for vesicoureteral reflux.
- The behavior of L-ascorbic acid in the healing process of dorsal wounds in guinea pigs.
- Stem cells: a review and implications for urology.
- Adult care of children from pediatric urology.
- Barriers to fertility preservation in male adolescents with cancer: it's time for a multidisciplinary approach that includes urologists.
- Semen analysis in adolescent cancer patients prior to bone marrow transplantation: when is it too late for fertility preservation?
- Predicting anatomical urological abnormalities in children who present with their first urinary tract infection.
- Editorial comment.
- Prepubertal presentation of varicocele does not affect outcomes.
- Pediatric Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Pyeloplasty.
- Robotic-assisted laparoscopic bladder augmentation in the pediatric patient.
- Robot-assisted laparoscopic lower pole partial nephrectomy in the pediatric patient.
- The first human alpha-spectrin structural domain begins with serine.
- Relation of heart block and left ventricular dysfunction in acute myocardial infarction.
Treatments
- Kidney Stones
- Urinary Incontinence
- Birth Defects
- Hernia
- Urinary Tract Infection (uti)
- Inguinal Hernia
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