Dr. Erik Ryan Barthel MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
5841 S MARYLAND AVE # MC4062 CHICAGO IL, 60637About
Dr. Erik Barthel practices Pediatric Surgery in CHICAGO, IL. Dr. Barthel 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. Bartheldiagnoses, 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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