Dr. Don K Nakayama MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
5153 N 9TH AVE PENSACOLA FL, 32504About
Dr. Don Nakayama practices Pediatric Surgery in Wilmington, NC. Dr. Nakayama 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. Nakayamadiagnoses, 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 Ca, San Francisco, Sch of Med, San Francisco Ca 1978
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Cyclic nucleotides and inducible nitric oxide synthesis in pulmonary artery smooth muscle.
- The trauma registry: an administrative and clinical tool.
- Primary percutaneous endoscopic button gastrostomy: a modification of the "push" technique.
- Nitric oxide and cyclic guanosine monophosphate stimulate apoptosis via activation of the Fas-FasL pathway.
- The use of drugs in emergency airway management in pediatric trauma.
- Differences in trauma care among pediatric and nonpediatric trauma centers.
- Lung mechanics during and after extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for meconium aspiration syndrome.
- Diminution in size of a fetal intrathoracic mass: caution against aggressive in utero management.
- Laparoscopic evaluation of the contralateral groin in pediatric inguinal hernia patients: a comparison of 70- and 120-degree endoscopes.
- Hospital characteristics affect outcomes for common pediatric surgical conditions.
- The newborn with hydrops and sacrococcygeal teratoma.
- Residency training in pyloromyotomy: a survey of 331 pediatric surgeons.
- Employment and satisfaction trends among general surgery residents from a community hospital.
- Three-year results of mandated work hour restrictions: attending and resident perspectives and effects in a community hospital.
- Thrombin stimulates mitogenesis in pig cerebrovascular smooth muscle cells involving activation of pro-matrix metalloproteinase-2.
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