Dr. Barthold Julia Barthold, M.D.

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duPont Hospital for Children
1600 Rockland Road
Wilmington, DE 19899

(302) 651-5986

Medical School
Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois

Residency
Urology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois

Fellowship
Pediatric Urology, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, Michigan
American Foundation for Urologic Disease Research Scholar, Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York

Board Certification
American Board of Urology

University Appointment
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology

Research and Clinical Interests
Basic science research of congenital anomalies and especially cryptorchidism

Publications

Most recent Peer-reviewed Publications

  1. Altered infant feeding patterns in boys with acquired nonsyndromic cryptorchidism
  2. Reduced expression of androgen receptor and myosin heavy chain mRNA in cremaster muscle of boys with nonsyndromic cryptorchidism
  3. Disorders of sex differentiation: A pediatric urologist's perspective of new terminology and recommendations
  4. Insulin-like 3 exposure of the fetal rat gubernaculum modulates expression of genes involved in neural pathways
  5. Cryptorchidism: Pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis
  6. Genetic and environmental contributors to cryptorchidism
  7. Editorial Comment
  8. The orl rat with inherited cryptorchidism has increased susceptibility to the testicular effects of in utero dibutyl phthalate exposure
  9. Latrogenic ureteral injury after laparoscopic cholecystectomy in a 13-year-old boy
  10. Undescended testis: Current theories of etiology
  11. Analysis of five single nucleotide polymorphisms in the ESR1 gene in cryptorchidism
  12. Altered expression of muscle- and cytoskeleton-related genes in a rat strain with inherited cryptorchidism
  13. Transperitoneal Laparoscopic Pyeloplasty for Primary Repair of Ureteropelvic Junction Obstruction in Infants and Children: Comparison With Open Surgery
  14. Influence of type of conduit and site of implantation on the outcome of continent catheterizable channels
  15. Allelic variants in HOX genes in cryptorchidism
  16. Failure of Shortening and Inversion of the Perinatal Gubernaculum in the Cryptorchid Long-Evans orl Rat
  17. Comparison of Laparoscopic and Open Partial Nephrectomy for Duplication Anomalies in Children
  18. Is adjuvant hormonal therapy indicated in cryptorchidism? Commentary
  19. Reproductive hormone levels in infants with cryptorchidism during postnatal activation of the pituitary-testicular axis
  20. The epidemiology of congenital cryptorchidism, testicular ascent and orchiopexy

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