Dr. Jeffrey Leonard Zitsman M.D.
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
688 Post Rd Scarsdale NY, 10583About
Dr. Jeffrey Zitsman practices Pediatric Surgery in Scarsdale, NY. Dr. Zitsman 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. Zitsmandiagnoses, 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
Tufts Univ Sch of Med, Boston Ma 1976
Tufts University School of Medicine 1976
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Current concepts in minimal access surgery for children.
- Laparoscopy in complicated pediatric appendicitis.
- Pediatric minimal-access surgery: update 2006.
- Gastric tube-pericardial fistula: a remote complication of esophageal replacement for long gap esophageal atresia.
- Hepatic pulmonary fusion in an infant with a right-sided congenital diaphragmatic hernia and contralateral mediastinal shift.
- Laparoscopic excision of choledochal cysts with total intracorporeal reconstruction.
- Effect of laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding on metabolic syndrome and its risk factors in morbidly obese adolescents.
- Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding in adolescents: short-term results.
- Comparative outcomes of laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding in adolescents and adults.
- Comment on: Distance to clinic and follow-up visit compliance in adolescent gastric bypass cohort.
- Intussusception in childhood.
- Weight loss after bariatric surgery in morbidly obese adolescents with MC4R
- Fat cell size and adipokine expression in relation to gender, depot, and metabolic risk factors in morbidly obese adolescents.
- Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding in adolescents.
- Mesenteric venous thrombosis following vertical sleeve gastrectomy in an adolescent.
Treatments
- Obesity
- Birth Defects
- Malnutrition
- Hernia
- Leukemia
- Umbilical Hernia
- Ventral Hernia
- Inguinal Hernia
- Extra Corporeal Shockwave Therapy
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