Dr. Alejandro Roberto Ruiz-elizalde M.D.
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
177 Fort Washington Ave Milstein Hospital Bu New York NY, 10032About
Dr. Alejandro Ruiz-elizalde practices Pediatric Surgery in New York, NY. Dr. Ruiz-elizalde 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. Ruiz-elizaldediagnoses, 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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