Dr. Stephen G. Murphy MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
A. I. Dupont Hospital For Children 1600 Rockland Road Wilmington DE, 19803About
Dr. Stephen Murphy practices Pediatric Surgery in Wilmington, DE. Dr. Murphy 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. Murphydiagnoses, 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.
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