Dr. David E. Wesson MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
6701 Fannin St Houston TX, 77030Rating
4/5
About
Dr. David Wesson practices Pediatric Surgery in Houston, TX. Dr. Wesson 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. Wessondiagnoses, 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 Toronto, Fac of Med, Toronto, Ont, Canada 1973
University Of Toronto Faculty Of Medicine 1973
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Advances in fetal and neonatal surgery for gastrointestinal anomalies and disease.
- Trends in pediatric and adult bicycling deaths before and after passage of a bicycle helmet law.
- Preventable pediatric trauma deaths in Ontario: a comparative population-based study.
- Pediatric blunt and penetrating trauma deaths in Ontario: a population-based study.
- Report of past meeting 61st Annual Meeting of the Section on Surgery-American Academy of Pediatrics.
- Pediatric trauma centers: coming of age.
- Modification of an evidence-based protocol for advanced appendicitis in children.
- The importance of surgeon involvement in the evaluation of non-accidental trauma patients.
- Trauma surgeon becomes consultant: evaluation of a protocol for management of intermediate-level trauma patients.
- Overuse of fluoroscopic gastrostomy studies in a children's hospital.
- Resource utilization after gastrostomy tube placement: defining areas of improvement for future quality improvement projects.
- Correlating surgical and pathological diagnoses in pediatric appendicitis.
- Feeding gastrostomy in children with complex heart disease: when is a fundoplication indicated?
- Successful endoscopic ablation of a pyriform sinus fistula in a child: case report and literature review.
- Evaluating a management strategy for malrotation in heterotaxy patients.
Treatments
- Birth Defects
- Hyperthyroidism
- Cellulitis
- Graves' Disease
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