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Dr. Leif Odd Holgersen M.D.
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
141 S Central Ave Hartsdale NY, 10530About
Dr. Leif Holgersen practices Pediatric Surgery in Hartsdale, NY. Dr. Holgersen 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. Holgersendiagnoses, 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
Umdnj-New Jersey Med Sch- Newark Nj 1965
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Duplication of the vermiform appendix.
- Left-sided posterior mediastinal thymus--MRI findings.
- Therapeutic and diagnostic implications of acquired choledochal obstruction in infancy: spontaneous resolution in three infants.
- Neonatal appendiceal perforation and Hirschsprung's disease.
- Colonoscopy for rectal bleeding in childhood.
- Colonoscopy for rectal bleeding in childhood.
- Retrosternal (Morgagni) hernia with small bowel obstruction secondary to a Richter's incarceration.
- Prolonged gastric retention of a swallowed coin following pyloromyotomy.
- Nonoperative treatment of duodenal hematomata in childhood.
- Nonoperative treatment of duodenal hematomata in childhood.
- Routine contrast enemas for diagnosing and managing strictures following nonoperative treatment of necrotizing enterocolitis.
- Isolated gastris pneumatosis.
- Peripheral arterial line insertion in neonates and infants: a simplified method of temporal artery cannulation.
- Hernia and eventration of the diaphragm secondary to blunt trauma.
- Eventration of the diaphragm with gastric perforation.
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