Dr. Michael Melvin Fuenfer M.D.
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
25 HIGHLAND AVE NEWBURYPORT MA, 01950About
Dr. Michael Fuenfer practices Pediatric Surgery in Washington, DC. Dr. Fuenfer 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. Fuenferdiagnoses, 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
Univ of Louisville Sch of Med, Louisville Ky 1976
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The United States Army Special Forces--Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Field Epidemiological Survey Team (Airborne), 1965-1968.
- The value of cryo-preservation of parathyroid tissue.
- The fetal biophysical profile in patients with premature rupture of the membranes--an early predictor of fetal infection.
- Carcinoma of the gastric fundus within a hiatus hernia. Case report.
- Carcinoma of the gastric fundus within a hiatus hernia. Case report.
- Asbestosis and old incubators.
- Emergency reduction of paraphimosis.
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