Dr. Donald Lynn Sorrells MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
2508 BERT KOUNS INDUSTRIAL LOOP SHREVEPORT LA, 71118About
Dr. Donald Sorrells practices Pediatric Surgery in Shreveport, LA. Dr. Sorrells 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. Sorrellsdiagnoses, 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
La State Univ Sch of Med In Shreveport, Shreveport La 1992
Louisiana State University Health Shreveport / School of Medicine 1992
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Anal duct carcinoma: case report and review of the literature.
- Fibrosing mediastinitis secondary to zygomycosis in a twenty-two-month-old child.
- Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in piglets using a polymerized bovine hemoglobin-based oxygen-carrying solution (HBOC-201).
- Pneumoretroperitoneum in two patients with Clostridium perfringens necrotizing pancreatitis.
- Inflammatory cytokines, nitric oxide, and necrotizing enterocolitis.
- Inhibition of nitric oxide with aminoguanidine reduces bacterial translocation after endotoxin challenge in vivo.
- Septic complications after splenectomy for sickle cell sequestration crisis.
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