Dr. Patrick B Thomas MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
1500 Cooper St Fort Worth TX, 76104About
Dr. Patrick Thomas practices Pediatric Surgery in Fort Worth, TX. Dr. Thomas 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. Thomasdiagnoses, 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 Tx Med Branch Galveston, Galveston Tx 1959
University of South Carolina Med Schl
Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine 1998
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Laparoscopic nephrectomy for renovascular hypertension in a 6-month-old infant.
- Identification of a long non-coding RNA gene, growth hormone secretagogue
- Multi-species sequence comparison reveals conservation of ghrelin gene-derived splice variants encoding a truncated ghrelin peptide.
- Insights from engraftable immunodeficient mouse models of hyperinsulinaemia.
- Whole-Genome Sequence of the Metastatic PC3 and LNCaP Human Prostate Cancer Cell Lines.
Treatments
- Birth Defects
- Hernia
- Umbilical Hernia
- Inguinal Hernia
Fellowships
- Baylor College Of Medicine
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