Dr. Scott A Engum MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
705 Riley Hospital Dr Suite 2500 Indianapolis IN, 46202About
Dr. Scott Engum practices Pediatric Surgery in Indianapolis, IN. Dr. Engum 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. Engumdiagnoses, 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
Univ Of Nd Sch Of Med- Grand Forks Nd 1989
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Home bowel preparation for elective colonic procedures in children: cost savings with quality assurance and improvement.
- Contralateral testicular metastasis in paratesticular rhabdomyosarcoma.
- Gastroschisis: a plea for risk categorization.
- Portal venous air: the poor prognosis persists.
- The utility of lung biopsy in recipients of stem cell transplantation.
- Gastric tonometry and direct intraabdominal pressure monitoring in abdominal compartment syndrome.
- Surgical management of duodenal injuries in children.
- Long-term analysis of children with esophageal atresia and tracheoesophageal fistula.
- Intravenous catheter training system: computer-based education versus traditional learning methods.
- Do you know your students' basic clinical skills exposure?
- Long-term results of treatment of Hirschsprung's disease.
- The whole truth: comparative analysis of diaphragmatic hernia repair using 4-ply vs 8-ply small intestinal submucosa in a growing animal model.
- Minimal access thoracic surgery in the pediatric population.
- Laparoscopic splenic procedures in children: experience in 231 children.
- Embryology, sternal clefts, ectopia cordis, and Cantrell's pentalogy.
Fellowships
- Pediatric Surgery: Indiana University -, Riley Hospital (Indianapolis, IN)
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