Dr. Megha M Tollefson M.D.
Pediatrician
200 1st St SW Rochester MN, 55905About
Dr. Megha Tollefson is a pediatrician practicing in Rochester, MN. Dr. Tollefson is a doctor who specializes in the health care of children. As a pedicatrician, Dr. Tollefson diagnoses and treats infections, injuries, diseases and other disorders in children. Pediatricians typically work with infants, children, teenagers and young adults up to age 21. They practice medical care as well as preventative health care. Dr. Tollefson can oversee and manage the physical, mental and emotional health of their patients.
Board Certification
DermatologyAmerican Board of DermatologyABD- Pediatric Dermatology
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
DermatologyAmerican Board of DermatologyABD
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- En coup de sabre morphea and Parry-Romberg syndrome: a retrospective review of 54 patients.
- Soft-tissue swelling around the proximal interphalangeal joints bilaterally: pachydermodactyly.
- Goltz syndrome in a moderately affected newborn boy.
- Incidence of psoriasis in children: a population-based study.
- Multiple eruptive pilomatricomas in a 9-year-old boy with glioblastoma.
- Early growth of infantile hemangiomas: what parents' photographs tell us.
- Acquired epidermodysplasia verruciformis in a child with the human immunodeficiency virus.
- Updates on morphea: role of vascular injury and advances in treatment.
- Diagnosis and management of psoriasis in children.
- A 5-year-old with connective tissue nevi: Buschke-Ollendorff syndrome.
- Successful treatment of subungual fibromas of tuberous sclerosis with topical rapamycin.
- Pediatric subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus: report of three cases.
- CNS imaging findings associated with Parry-Romberg syndrome and en coup de sabre:
- Henoch-Schönlein purpura and systemic disease in children: retrospective study of clinical findings, histopathology and direct immunofluorescence in 34 paediatric patients.
- Umbilical and periumbilical dermatoses.
Clinical Trials
Treatments
- Psoriasis, Skin Issues
Professional Memberships
- Member Minnesota Medical Association/Zumbro Valley
Fellowships
- Fellow - Pediatric Dermatology Fellowship: Stanford University
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