Dr. Guy Frederick Brisseau MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
5850 UNIVERSITY AVENUE HALIFAX NS, B3K6RAbout
Dr. Guy Brisseau practices Pediatric Surgery in HALIFAX, NS. Dr. Brisseau 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. Brisseaudiagnoses, 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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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Surgical approaches to pediatric defecatory disorders.
- Cystic nephroma: a benign renal tumor of children and adults.
- Congenital pancreatic cysts in children.
- Regulation of cytoplasmic pH in osteoclasts. Contribution of proton pumps and a proton-selective conductance.
- Unilamellar liposomes modulate secretion of tumor necrosis factor by lipopolysaccharide-stimulated macrophages.
- In situ ischemia and hypoxia enhance alveolar macrophage tissue factor expression.
- Oxidant stress inhibits pH regulatory mechanisms in murine peritoneal macrophages.
- Protein kinase C activation accelerates proton extrusion by vacuolar-type H(+)-ATPases in murine peritoneal macrophages.
- Chronic extracellular acidosis induces plasmalemmal vacuolar type H+ ATPase activity in osteoclasts.
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