Dr. George Whitfield Holcomb MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
2401 Gillham Rd Kansas City MO, 64108About
Dr. George Holcomb practices Pediatric Surgery in Kansas City, MO. Dr. Holcomb 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. Holcombdiagnoses, 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
Vanderbilt Univ Sch of Med, Nashville Tn 1980
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine 1980
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in children: lessons learned from the first 100 patients.
- Laparoscopic left adrenalectomy for pheochromocytoma in a child.
- Incidence and significance of pneumomediastinum after laparoscopic esophageal surgery.
- Laparoscopy in infants and children.
- Twenty-five-year surgical experience with pheochromocytoma in children.
- Major hepatic resections in children.
- Minimally invasive repair of pectus excavatum: a single institution's experience.
- Lessons learned from a failed multi-institutional randomized controlled study.
- Laparoscopic variability of the internal inguinal ring: review of anatomical variation in children with and without a patent processus vaginalis.
- Outcome after recannulation and a second course of extracorporeal membrane
- Experience with laparoscopic adrenalectomy in pediatric patients.
- Minimally invasive bar repair for 'redo' correction of pectus excavatum.
- Laparoscopic fundoplication and gastrostomy.
- Laparoscopic adrenalectomy and esophagomyotomy.
- Effective Nissen fundoplication length and bougie diameter size in young children undergoing laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication.
Treatments
- Burns
- Acid Reflux
- Birth Defects
- Pain
- Hernia
- Umbilical Hernia
- Inguinal Hernia
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