Dr. Benedict C. Nwomeh MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
555. S 18th Street Columbus OH, 43205Rating
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Dr. Benedict Nwomeh practices Pediatric Surgery in Columbus, OH. Dr. Nwomeh 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. Nwomehdiagnoses, 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
Univ of Lagos Coll of Med-Lagos,Nigeria 1986
Lagos State University College of Medicine 1986
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The proteolytic environment of chronic wounds.
- Case report: prenatally detected dumdbell-shaped retroperitoneal duplication cyst.
- Monozygotic twins with discordant intestinal rotation.
- History and development of trauma registry: lessons from developed to developing countries.
- Factors affecting innovation in pediatric surgery: hospital type and appendectomies.
- Thoracoscopic-assisted esophagectomy and laparoscopic gastric pull-up for lye
- General surgery versus specialty rotations: a new paradigm in surgery clerkships.
- Geographic disparities in the risk of perforated appendicitis among children in
- Assessing the efficacy of the fundamentals of research and career development
- Pediatric negative appendectomy rate: trend, predictors, and differentials.
- Variability in gastroschisis management: a survey of North American pediatric surgery training programs.
- Teaching technical skills to medical students: beyond 'see one, do one, teach one'.
- Profiling the ethnic characteristics of domestic injuries in children younger than age 5 years.
- Medicine and surgery: the yin and yang of health systems.
- Further examination of the impact of patient participation on physicians' communication style.
Treatments
- Burns
- Crohn's Disease
- Concussion
- Birth Defects
- Malnutrition
- Gas
- Femur Fracture
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