Dr. Mike Kuang sing Chen MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
1600 7th Ave S Acc 300 Birmingham AL, 35233About
Dr. Mike Chen practices Pediatric Surgery in Birmingham, AL. Dr. Chen 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. Chendiagnoses, 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
U of Tx Med Sch At Houston, Houston Tx 1987
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Southwestern Medical School 1987
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- VEGF upregulates Bcl-2 expression and is associated with decreased apoptosis in neuroblastoma cells.
- Insulin-like growth factor-I protects neuroblastoma against starvation-induced apoptosis and is associated with increased Bcl-2 expression.
- Caspase 3 expression is altered in a coculture model of neuroblastoma.
- Neuroblastoma, apoptosis, and growth factors.
- Twenty years of progress in congenital diaphragmatic hernia at the University of Florida.
- Differential expression of Bcl-2 and Bax may enhance neuroblastoma survival.
- VEGF receptors are differentially expressed by neuroblastoma cells in culture.
- Expanded application of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in a pediatric surgery practice.
- Expression of VEGF receptors in cocultured neuroblastoma cells.
- VEGF-mediated survivin expression in neuroblastoma cells.
- Current practice in pediatric surgery.
- Differential response of neuroblastoma cells to TRAIL is independent of PI3K/AKT.
- Position paper on video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery as treatment of pediatric empyema.
- Position paper on laparoscopic antireflux operations in infants and children for gastroesophageal reflux disease. American Pediatric Surgery Association.
- Outcomes of treatment of childhood achalasia.
Treatments
- Birth Defects
- Hernia
- Inguinal Hernia
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