Dr. Frank John Penna M.D.
Urologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Urology
9 RICHLAND MEDICAL PARK DR STE 500 COLUMBIA SC, 29203About
Dr. Frank Penna practices Pediatric Urology in Detroit, MI. 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. Penna is a surgeon who diagnoses, treats, and manages voiding disorders, vesicoureteral reflux, and urinary tract infections that require surgery. Some procedures that Dr. Penna 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
University of Medicine And Dentistry of New Jersey / Robert Wood Johnson Medic 2008
University of Medicine And Dentistry of New Jersey / Robert Wood Johnson Med 2008
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Influence of bacteria from the duodenal microbiota of patients with symptomatic
- Pressure pain threshold in children with recurrent abdominal pain.
- [Clinical and nutritional aspects in patients with cystic fibrosis: 20 years of follow-up in the Clinical Hospital-Federal University of Minas Gerais (HC-UFMG)].
- Influence of oral inoculation with plasmid-free human Escherichia coli on the frequency of diarrhea during the first year of life in human newborns.
- Dietary fiber intake, stool frequency and colonic transit time in chronic functional constipation in children.
- Serum antigliadin antibody levels as a screening criterion before jejunal biopsy indication for celiac disease in a developing country.
- Effect of meconium ileus on the clinical prognosis of patients with cystic fibrosis.
- Acute and early chronic phases of schistosomiasis mansoni in children treated with hycanthone.
- [Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction in children - report of seven cases]
- [Influence of colostrum on normal bacterial colonization of the neonatal gastrointestinal tract]
- [Pediatric gastroenterology: past and future challenges]
- [Gastroesophageal reflux]
- [Glycogenosis type I]
- [Pain threshold and age in childhood and adolescence]
- [Study of intestinal malabsorption diseases as cause of monosymptomatic short stature]
Dr. Frank John Penna M.D.'s Practice location
Practice At 2799 W Grand Blvd K9
2799 W Grand Blvd K9 -Detroit, MI 48202Get Direction
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