Dr. Marc Colaco
Urologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Urology
WAKE FOREST BAPTIST HOSPITAL WINSTON SALEM NC, 27157About
Dr. Marc Colaco practices Pediatric Urology in WINSTON SALEM, NC. 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. Colaco is a surgeon who diagnoses, treats, and manages voiding disorders, vesicoureteral reflux, and urinary tract infections that require surgery. Some procedures that Dr. Colaco 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.
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