Dr. George Willard Kaplan M.D.
Urologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Urology
3020 Childrens Way San Diego CA, 92123About
Dr. George Kaplan practices Pediatric Urology in San Diego, CA. Pediatric urologists treat young patients who suffer from an illness or disease of the genitals or urinary tract, including the kidneys, ureters, bladder. As a pediatric urologist, Dr. Kaplan is a surgeon who diagnoses, treats, and manages voiding disorders, vesicoureteral reflux, and urinary tract infections that require surgery. Some procedures that Dr. Kaplan performs include surgical reconstruction of the urinary tract, hypospadias, and disorders of sex development; surgery for groin conditions in childhood; evaluation and surgical management of kidney stone disease; and surgical management of tumors and malignancies of the kidney, bladder, and testis.
Education and Training
Northwestern Uniiversity 1959
Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine 1959
Board Certification
UrologyAmerican Board of UrologyABU- Pediatric Urology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- With apologies to Shakespeare.
- The wet child.
- Re: Subspecialization, recruitment and retirement trends of American urologists.
- Renal function before and after pyeloplasty: does it improve?
- Sex assignment in cases of ambiguous genitalia and its outcome.
- Comparison of flaps versus grafts in proximal hypospadias surgery.
- Scrotal swelling in children.
- Hypertension in infancy: the case for aggressive management.
- Ipsilateral ureteroureterostomy for the treatment of vesicoureteral reflux or obstruction associated with complete ureteral duplication.
- Is routine karyotyping necessary in the evaluation of hypospadias and cryptorchidism?
- Eosinophilic cystitis.
- Embryogenesis of chordee.
- Staghorn calculus endotoxin expression in sepsis.
- Topical testosterone therapy for penile growth.
- Diagnosis of urethral obstruction with prenatal magnetic resonance imaging.
Treatments
- Urinary Incontinence
- Birth Defects
- Urinary Tract Infection (uti)
- Varicocele
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