Dr. Peter C Minneci MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
34th & Civic Center Blvd Children's Hospital Philadelphia PA, 19104About
Dr. Peter Minneci practices Pediatric Surgery in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Minneci 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. Minnecidiagnoses, 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
New York University School of Medicine 1999
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Substantiating the concerns about recombinant human activated protein C use in sepsis.
- Defining the standard of care in randomized controlled trials of titrated therapies.
- The efficacy of drotrecogin alfa depends on severity of illness.
- Novel therapies for sepsis: a review.
- Mechanical ventilation in ARDS: One size does not fit all.
- The relevance of practice misalignments to trials in transfusion medicine.
- ACP Journal Club. Intensive insulin therapy did not reduce mortality more than conventional therapy in septic shock treated with corticosteroids.
- Sensitivity and predictive value of ultrasound in pediatric cholecystitis.
- Increased morbidity and mortality of traumatic brain injury in victims of nonaccidental trauma.
- Mortality increases with recurrent episodes of nonaccidental trauma in children.
- Using the Pediatric Health Information System to study rare congenital pediatric surgical diseases: development of a cohort of esophageal atresia patients.
- Sentinel lymph node biopsy in pediatric soft tissue sarcoma patients: utility and concordance with imaging.
- Management of short bowel syndrome.
- Intestinal transplantation: An overview.
- Morbidity of peripherally inserted central catheters in pediatric complicated appendicitis.
Treatments
- Burns
- Birth Defects
- Malnutrition
- Hernia
- Cellulitis
- Gas
- Umbilical Hernia
- Inguinal Hernia
- Extra Corporeal Shockwave Therapy
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