Dr. Jacob C Langer MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
730 WELCH RD PALO ALTO CA, 94304About
Dr. Jacob Langer practices Pediatric Surgery in PALO ALTO, CA. Dr. Langer 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. Langerdiagnoses, 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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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Fundoplication and gastrostomy versus image-guided gastrojejunal tube for enteral feeding in neurologically impaired children with gastroesophageal reflux.
- Chronic constipation due to Hirschsprung's disease and desmosis coli in a family.
- Red hemiscrotum in a child with abdominal pain.
- Abdominal wall defects.
- Pediatric pulmonary carcinoid: a case report and review of the literature.
- Can 'long-gap' esophageal atresia be safely managed at home while awaiting anastomosis?
- Cut it out: Managing hepatic abscesses in patients with chronic granulomatous disease.
- Image-guided percutaneous approach is superior to the thoracoscopic approach in the diagnosis of pulmonary nodules in children.
- The failed fundoplication.
- Image-guided surgery for the pediatric patient: ultrasound, computerized
- Incidence of medical error and adverse outcomes on a pediatric general surgery service.
- Acute appendicitis with fulminant necrotizing fasciitis in a neonate.
- [Medico-surgical consensus for management of children with gastroesophageal reflux Acapulco, Mexico 2002].
- Does pediatric surgical specialty training affect outcome after Ramstedt pyloromyotomy? A population-based study.
- Ovarian torsion in children: is oophorectomy necessary?
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