Dr. Christopher B. Weldon M.D.
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
300 Longwood Ave Children's Hospital, Boston MA, 02115Rating
4/5
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Dr. Christopher Weldon practices Pediatric Surgery in Boston, MA. Dr. Weldon 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. Weldondiagnoses, 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
Tulane University School of Medicine 1995
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Esophageal carcinosarcoma.
- Solid and papillary epithelial neoplasm of the pancreas.
- PKC-mediated survival signaling in breast carcinoma cells: a role for MEK1-AP1 signaling.
- Mechanical and antibacterial bowel preparation in colon and rectal surgery.
- ATLS training: a novel approach.
- A familial case of pleuropulmonary blastoma.
- Hepatoblastoma presenting with focal nodular hyperplasia after treatment of neuroblastoma.
- Proteomic analysis of tumor necrosis factor-alpha resistant human breast cancer cells reveals a MEK5/Erk5-mediated epithelial-mesenchymal transition phenotype.
- Mesenteric lipoblastoma presenting as a segmental volvulus.
- Use of a distal arteriovenous fistula in a complex vascular reconstruction after resection of an osteosarcoma in a high-risk child.
- Outcomes after the Ladd procedure in patients with heterotaxy syndrome, congenital heart disease, and intestinal malrotation.
- Reduced size liver transplantation from a donor supported by a Berlin Heart.
- H-type rectovaginal fistula in a patient with bilateral single ectopic ureters.
- In utero diagnosis of congenital pyloric atresia in a single twin using MRI and ultrasound.
- Childhood pancreatic tumors: a single institution experience.
Treatments
- Cancer Surgery
- Birth Defects
- Pain
- Peripheral Artery Disease (pad)
- Vascular Disease
Fellowships
- Boston Children's Hospital, Pediatric Surgery 2004
- Tulane University, Critical Care 2003
- Critical Care - Tulane University - New Orleans, Louisiana 2003
- Pediatric Surgery - Boston Children's Hospital - Boston, MA 2004
- Tulane Medical School, Fellow:Surgical Critical Care 2003
- Boston Children's Hospital, Fellow:Pediatric Surgery 2004
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