
Dr. Stephen Joseph Fenton M.D.
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
34th And Civic Center Boulevard The Children's Hospi Philadelphia PA, 19104About
Dr. Stephen Fenton practices Pediatric Surgery in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Fenton 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. Fentondiagnoses, 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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SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The "Tip-Stitch": a time-saving technique for specimen extraction in sleeve gastrectomy.
- Use of focused abdominal sonography for trauma at pediatric and adult trauma
- Management options for symptomatic stenosis after laparoscopic vertical sleeve gastrectomy in the morbidly obese.
- A modified laparoscopic esophagogastric dissociation for severe bile reflux in a neurologically impaired child.
- Hand-sewn gastrojejunostomy using knotless unidirectional barbed absorbable suture during laparoscopic gastric bypass.
- The role of focused abdominal sonography for trauma (FAST) in pediatric trauma evaluation.
- The utility of a "trauma 1 OP" activation at a level 1 pediatric trauma center.
- Consequences of pediatric undertriage and overtriage in a statewide trauma system.
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34th And Civic Center Boulevard The Children's Hospi -Philadelphia, PA 19104Get Direction
Dr. Stephen Fenton, MD
Department of Surgery -Salt Lake City, UT 84132Get Direction
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Nearby Providers
- Marshall Zane Schwartz160 W Erie Ave Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19140
- Dr. Keith Andrew Thatch M.D.E Erie Ave and N Front Street Philadelphia PA 19134
- Dr. Nick Scott Adzick MD3401 CIVIC CENTER BLVD PHILADELPHIA PA 19104
- Dr. Michael B. Marchildon MDVirtua And Dupont Childrens Health Program Voorhees NJ 08043
- Dr. Matthew L Moront M.D.Erie Ave At Front Street Philadelphia PA 19134
- Dr. William Hughes Peranteau M.D.1601 Walnut St Philadelphia PA 19102
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111 SOUTH 11TH STREET PHILADELPHIA PA 19107PENN PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTERl
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230 NORTH BROAD STREET PHILADELPHIA PA 19102UNIVERSITY HEALTH CARE/UNIV HOSPITALS AND CLINICSl
50 NORTH MEDICAL DRIVE SALT LAKE CITY UT 84132PRIMARY CHILDRENS HOSPITALl
100 NORTH MARIO CAPECCHI DRIVE SALT LAKE CITY UT 84113SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN - S L Cl
FAIRFAX ROAD AT VIRGINIA STREET SALT LAKE CITY UT 84103