Dr. Melvin Sidney Dassinger M.D.
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
800 Marshall St Slot 827 Little Rock AR, 72202Rating
5/5
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Dr. Melvin Dassinger practices Pediatric Surgery in Little Rock, AR. Dr. Dassinger 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. Dassingerdiagnoses, 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
University of Alabama School of Medicine 2000
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Laparoscopic repair of a right paraduodenal hernia in a child.
- Tracheobronchial injury diagnosed by computed tomography scan: a case report.
- Preemptive gastrostomy tube placement after Norwood operation.
- Case report: delayed perforation after definitive treatment of focal intestinal
- Traumatic carotid-cavernous fistula presenting as massive epistaxis.
- Staple line ulcers: a cause of chronic GI bleeding following STEP procedure.
- Persistent gastrocutaneous fistula: factors affecting the need for closure.
- Surgeon as educator: bedside ultrasound in hypertrophic pyloric stenosis.
- Surgeon-performed ultrasound: accurate, reproducible, and more efficient.
- Surgeon-performed bedside ultrasound to assess volume status: a feasibility study.
- Implementation of the World Health Organization checklist and debriefing improves accuracy of surgical wound class documentation.
- Optimal timing of appendectomy in the pediatric population.
- Real-time ultrasonography for placement of central venous catheters in children: A multi-institutional study.
- Resource savings and outcomes associated with outpatient laparoscopic appendectomy for nonperforated appendicitis.
Treatments
- Kidney Cancer
- Venous Insufficiency
- Birth Defects
- Hernia
- Leukemia
- Gas
- Umbilical Hernia
- Dermal Aesthetics
- Extra Corporeal Shockwave Therapy
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