Dr. Curtis Stokes Koontz MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
979 E 3rd St Suite 300 Chattanooga TN, 37403Rating
5/5
About
Dr. Curtis Koontz practices Pediatric Surgery in Chattanooga, TN. Dr. Koontz 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. Koontzdiagnoses, 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
Wake Forest School of Medicine of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center 2001
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Effects of empiric antibiotic administration for suspected pneumonia on subsequent opportunistic pulmonary infections.
- Video-assisted transumbilical Meckel's diverticulectomy in children.
- Retropleural teratoma presenting as an abdominal mass in a 9-month-old boy.
- Solid pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreas in a teenager.
- Can prenatal ultrasound predict secondary gastrointestinal complications in neonates with gastroschisis?
- Comparison of growth and metabolism of avian osteoblasts on polished disks versus thin films of titanium alloy.
Treatments
- Acid Reflux
- Birth Defects
- Malnutrition
- Hernia
- Leukemia
- Gas
- Umbilical Hernia
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