Dr. Teodoro Ernesto Figueroa MD
Urologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Urology
1600 Rockland Road Wilmington DE, 19803About
Dr. Teodoro Figueroa practices Pediatric Urology in Wilmington, DE. Pediatric urologists treat young patients who suffer from an illness or disease of the genitals or urinary tract, including the kidneys, ureters, bladder. As a pediatric urologist, Dr. Figueroa is a surgeon who diagnoses, treats, and manages voiding disorders, vesicoureteral reflux, and urinary tract infections that require surgery. Some procedures that Dr. Figueroa performs include surgical reconstruction of the urinary tract, hypospadias, and disorders of sex development; surgery for groin conditions in childhood; evaluation and surgical management of kidney stone disease; and surgical management of tumors and malignancies of the kidney, bladder, and testis.
Education and Training
Tulane University School of Medicine 1994
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Comparison of dismembered and nondismembered laparoscopic pyeloplasty in the pediatric patient.
- Transperitoneal laparoscopic pyeloplasty for primary repair of ureteropelvic junction obstruction in infants and children: comparison with open surgery.
- Magnetic resonance imaging of renal abnormalities in patients with congenital osseous anomalies of the spine.
- Iatrogenic ureteral injury after laparoscopic cholecystectomy in a 13-year-old boy.
- Gross hematuria in a 3-year-old girl caused by a large isolated bladder hemangioma.
- Reduced expression of androgen receptor and myosin heavy chain mRNA in cremaster muscle of boys with nonsyndromic cryptorchidism.
- Risk model for renal scarring: validation and implications still needed for primary care practice.
- Editorial Comment.
- The Need for Improved Detection of Urinary Tract Infections in Young Children.
Treatments
- Urinary Incontinence
- Birth Defects
- Hernia
- Urinary Tract Infection (uti)
- Varicocele
- Inguinal Hernia
- Blepharoplasty-eyelids
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