Dr. Christopher Anthony Gitzelmann M.D.
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
601 Elmwood Ave Box Surg Rochester NY, 14642Rating
5/5
About
Dr. Christopher Gitzelmann practices Pediatric Surgery in Rochester, NY. Dr. Gitzelmann 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. Gitzelmanndiagnoses, 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
Universit‰t Z¸rich Medizinische Fakult‰t 2008
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The infantile inguinal hernia - a bilateral disease?
- Comparison of the stress response after laparoscopic and open cholecystectomy.
- Endothelin receptor remodeling induces the portal venous hyper-response to endothelin-1 following endotoxin pretreatment.
- Dorsal flexion of head and neck for rigid oesophagoscopy--a caution for hidden foreign bodies dropped into the epipharynx.
- An orbitocranial knife injury without functional deficit in a child.
- Impact of carbon dioxide versus air pneumoperitoneum on peritoneal cell migration and cell fate.
- Tracheal tube tip displacement during laparoscopy in children*.
- Increased mediastinal pressure and decreased cardiac output during laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication.
Treatments
- Constipation
- Birth Defects
- Pain
- Hernia
- Umbilical Hernia
- Inguinal Hernia
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