Dr. Douglas A Katz M.D.
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
1600 Rockland Rd Wilmington DE, 19803About
Dr. Douglas Katz practices Pediatric Surgery in Wilmington, DE. Dr. Katz 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. Katzdiagnoses, 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
Va Commonwealth Univ, Med Coll of Va Sch of Med, Richmond Va 1991
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine 1991
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor arising from an adrenal ganglioneuroma in a 6-year-old boy.
- Diagnosis of "Fetal lung interstitial tumor" requires a FISH negative for trisomies 8 and 2.
- Prophylactic methylprednisolone to reduce inflammation and improve outcomes from one lung ventilation in children: a randomized clinical trial.
Treatments
- Acid Reflux
- Constipation
- Concussion
- Birth Defects
- Gastroenteritis
- Hernia
- Gas
- Umbilical Hernia
- Inguinal Hernia
Fellowships
- Children's Hospital of Michigan
- University Hospital of Arkansas
- Arkansas Children s Hospital
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