Dr. Charles M Leys MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
705 Riley Hospital Dr Suite 2500 Indianapolis IN, 46202About
Dr. Charles Leys practices Pediatric Surgery in Indianapolis, IN. Dr. Leys 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. Leysdiagnoses, 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.
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Elective intestinal operations in infants and children without mechanical bowel preparation: a pilot study.
- Liver transplantation for childhood hepatic malignancy: a review of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) database.
- Laparoscopic removal of a gastric trichobezoar in a pediatric patient.
- Predictors of ovarian malignancy in children: overcoming clinical barriers of ovarian preservation.
- Postoperative opioid analgesic use after Nuss versus Ravitch pectus excavatum repair.
- Management of neonatal ovarian cysts and its effect on ovarian preservation.
- Computed tomography-related radiation exposure in children transferred to a Level I pediatric trauma center.
- A Single Institution Review of Initial Application of a 5-mm Stapler.
- A genetic screen for temperature-sensitive cell-division mutants of Caenorhabditis elegans.
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