Dr. Peter A Mattei M.D.
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
34th & Civic Center Blvd Children's Hospital Philadelphia PA, 19104Rating
5/5
About
Dr. Peter Mattei practices Pediatric Surgery in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Mattei 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. Matteidiagnoses, 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
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1989
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- [Digital film viewer versus conventional view boxes in the identification of bone and joint disorders].
- Diagnostic utility of an echo-contrast agent in patients with synovitis using power Doppler ultrasound: a preliminary study with comparison to contrast-enhanced MRI.
- Osteo-articular, mammographic and thoracic films: clinical evaluation of digital view box versus conventional view box.
- Magnetic resonance of the breast: correlation between enhancement patterns and microvessel density in malignant tumors.
- Superficial inflammatory and primary neoplastic lymphadenopathy: diagnostic accuracy of power-doppler sonography.
- Is nasal polyposis a determinant of bronchial hyperresponsiveness and altered quality of life in asthmatic subjects? A case-control study.
- Airway obstruction during arthroscopic shoulder surgery: anesthesia for the patient or for the surgeon?
- Antioxidant vitamin supplementation in cardiovascular diseases.
- New morphologic variants of the hand motor cortex as seen with MR imaging in a large study population.
- Laparoscopic adrenalectomy for adrenal tumors in children: a case series.
- Conjunctival characteristics in primary open-angle glaucoma and modifications induced by trabeculectomy with mitomycin C: an in vivo confocal microscopy study.
- Finger thermoregulatory model assessing functional impairment in Raynaud's phenomenon.
- Thermal imaging of cutaneous temperature modifications in runners during graded exercise.
- Comparison of hypothesis- and a novel hybrid data/hypothesis-driven method of
- Efficacy of rufinamide in drug-resistant epilepsy: a meta-analysis.
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