Dr. Rafael Vicente Pieretti MD
Urologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Urology
55 Fruit Street Wrn 11 Boston MA, 02114Rating
5/5
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Dr. Rafael Pieretti practices Pediatric Urology in Boston, MA. Pediatric urologists treat young patients who suffer from an illness or disease of the genitals or urinary tract, including the kidneys, ureters, bladder. As a pediatric urologist, Dr. Pieretti is a surgeon who diagnoses, treats, and manages voiding disorders, vesicoureteral reflux, and urinary tract infections that require surgery. Some procedures that Dr. Pieretti performs include surgical reconstruction of the urinary tract, hypospadias, and disorders of sex development; surgery for groin conditions in childhood; evaluation and surgical management of kidney stone disease; and surgical management of tumors and malignancies of the kidney, bladder, and testis.
Education and Training
Universidad Central De Venezuela - Jose Maria Vargas MD
Universidad Central de Venezuela Escuela de Medicina Luis Razetti 1965
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Congenital bladder diverticula in children.
- Circumcised hypospadias.
- Renal abscess in previously healthy girl.
- Megacalycosis: a rare condition.
- The transpuboperineal approach for repair of traumatic strictures of the posterior urethra in children.
- Nissen-type colonic bladder wall ureteral wraparound for reimplantation in a complex reconstructive case.
- In support of early surgical repair of ureteropelvic junction obstruction.
- High-strength Neodymium Magnetic Beads: A Rare Foreign Body in the Bladder of an Adolescent.
- Bladder Hamartoma in a Fetus: Case Report.
- Combined abdominal and posterior sagittal transrectal approach for the repair of rectourinary fistula resulting from a shotgun wound.
- The mild end of the clinical spectrum of posterior urethral valves.
Treatments
- Birth Defects
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