Pediatric Surgery
Leadership
Name:
Peter Minecci, MD
Position:
- Division Director
- Chair, Department of Surgery
Nemours Children's Health, Delaware Valley
1600 Rockland Road
Wilmington, DE 19803
Research
Our faculty members head funded research projects, publish in peer-reviewed journals, author book chapters and present frequently at local and national conferences.
Recent Publications
- Standardized surgical approach to gastrostomy tube placement: A quality improvement initiative at a multi-hospital Children's health care system
- Implementing pediatric appendicitis pathways across multiple hospitals: A quality improvement project
- Open versus minimally invasive surgery for pediatric choledochal cyst in a propensity score matched cohort
- Nonoperative Management of Uncomplicated Appendicitis: The Elephant in the (Emergency) Room?
- Identifying Predictors of Recurrent Pilonidal Disease in Adolescents and Young Adults: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial
- Imaging stewardship for the diagnosis of pediatric appendicitis: Improved ultrasound performance can decrease emergency department length of stay
- Adoption and Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices into Pediatric Appendectomy Care
- A quality improvement initiative to improve operating room well-being: the Microaffirmations in Perioperative Personnel Project (The MAPP Project)
- Surgical Outcomes of Acute Mastoiditis in Pediatric Patients: A Pediatric Health Information System Study
- Is Appendiceal Cancer a Risk of Nonoperative Management of Pediatric Uncomplicated Appendicitis?
- Non-operative management of pediatric, uncomplicated acute appendicitis: A survey of pediatric surgeons’ perceptions and practice
- Comparison of postoperative outcomes following endoscopic third ventriculostomy or shunt in a propensity score matched pediatric cohort
- Declining use and shifting drivers of concurrent fundoplication with pediatric gastrostomy
- Appendicitis
- Screening ultrasound for deep vein thrombosis detection in high-risk pediatric trauma
- Optimizing surveillance strategies for sacrococcygeal teratoma: A Midwest pediatric surgery consortium multi-institutional study
- Letter to the Editor in Response to: What's a Swenson?- Pediatric Surgical M&MC at Regional Children's Hospitals: Overcoming Challenges and Embracing Opportunity Together
- Use of Ovarian Tumor Markers in Prediction of Malignancy Risk in Pediatric and Adolescent Patients
- Implementation of Comprehensive Surgical Guidelines for Hepatoblastoma
- An overview of malignant ovarian tumors in children