Dr. Kanika Alake Bowen MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
2401 S 31st St # C410a Temple TX, 76508About
Dr. Kanika Bowen practices Pediatric Surgery in Temple, TX. Dr. Bowen 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. Bowendiagnoses, 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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