Dr. Karen W West MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
8040 CLEARVISTA PKWY INDIANAPOLIS IN, 46256About
Dr. Karen West practices Pediatric Surgery in Indianapolis, IN. Dr. West 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. Westdiagnoses, 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
In Univ Sch of Med, Indianapolis In 1977
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Influence of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation on subsequent surgeries after congenital diaphragmatic hernia repair.
- Choledochoceles: are they choledochal cysts?
- Prophylactic Antibiotics for Prevention of Cholangitis in Patients With Biliary Atresia Status Post-Kasai Portoenterostomy: A Systematic Review.
- Management of Peritoneal Dialysis Catheters That Erode Into Bowel: Two Pediatric Case Reports and a Review of the Literature.
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