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Teodoro Ernesto Figueroa, MD

Urology

Primary Office

快播成人网 Children's Hospital, Delaware 快播成人网 Children's Hospital, Delaware 1600 Rockland Road Wilmington, DE 19803 Appointment: (800) 416-4441

Other Offices

Get to Know Me

My inspiration to become a doctor came from my dad, who served as a role model for me as a urologist. I have found a passion in helping children recover from their medical journeys as well. In my years at 快播成人网, I've discovered a new appreciation in my work and am thankful to work with a highly dedicated group of professionals within the organization. When I am not at 快播成人网, I enjoy cooking, reading, and traveling with my family.

Why I Treat Children

When I was exposed to treating children during my residency, I found joy and passion in the journey of helping patients back to wellness.聽

What I'm Passionate About

I鈥檓 enthusiastic about fulfilling the promise to patients and their families to offer the best care possible.聽

How I Try to Make A Difference

I ensure the best possible care for my patients in my work every day. I also instill the same sentiment in my residents and colleagues to ensure that the standard of care is the best it can be for their patients. My overall goal is to ensure that patients get the care they deserve.聽

Education & Training

Fellowship

  • Pediatric Urology - Children's Hospital of Michigan, 1990

Internship

  • General Surgery - Ochsner Medical Foundation, 1984

Residency

  • Urology - Tulane University School of Medicine, 1989
  • General Surgery - Ochsner Medical Foundation, 1985

Medical/Dental School

  • M.D. - Tulane University, 1983

Board Certifications

  • American Board of Urology
  • American Board of Urology/Pediatric Urology

Awards & Recognition

  • 2016 Philadelphia Magazine's Top Doctors
  • 2015 Delaware Today Magazine, Top Doctors
  • 2015 Philadelphia Magazine's Top Doctors
  • 2014 Best Doctors in America
  • 2014 Delaware Today magazine, Top Doctors
  • 2014 Philadelphia Magazine's Top Doctors
  • 2014 SJ Magazine Top Doctors
  • 2014 South Jersey Magazine's Top Children's Physicians
  • 2013 Best Doctors in America
  • 2011 Best Doctors in America

Insurance Accepted

  • Aetna Better Health FL Medicaid and Healthy Kids
  • Aetna Better Health PA Kids HMO
  • Aetna HMO
  • Aetna HMO/POS/PPO/EPO
  • Aetna PPO/EPO/POS
  • Aetna PPO/POS/EPO
  • Amerihealth Caritas Delaware
  • Amerihealth Caritas Delaware - Delaware & Chester CTY ONLY
  • Amerihealth Caritas Delaware - Deptford only
  • AMERIHEALTH CARITAS DELAWARE VIP NEXT
  • AvMed
  • Blue Cross and Blue Shield HMO
  • Blue Cross and Blue Shield Non HMO
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield Florida Blue Select
  • Carefirst MD Community Health Plan Mcaid
  • Cigna & Great West HMO/POS/EPO
  • Cigna & Great West PPO
  • Cigna PPO/EPO/HMO/POS/OPEN ACCESS
  • Cigna/Great West HMO EPO POS
  • Cigna/Great West PPO
  • Community Care Plan Medicaid
  • Delaware First Health
  • Delaware First Health - Concordville & Media Sites ONLY
  • Delaware First Health - Deptford only
  • Delaware Medicaid/Diamond State
  • Delaware Medicare
  • Devon Health Services
  • Employers Health Network PPO
  • Evolutions Healthcare
  • Fidelis Care NJ Medicaid HMO
  • First Health Aetna PPO/EPO
  • First Health/Affordable PPO
  • Florida Community Care
  • Florida Medicaid
  • Florida Medicare
  • Geisinger Health Plan Commercial
  • Global Medical Managment DE/PA
  • Global Medical Mangment NJ
  • Health First Health Plans
  • Health Partners Medicaid/Kidz Partner HMO
  • HealthSmart Health Plans PPO
  • Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware
  • Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware *PA Loc Contiguous to DE*
  • Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware *PA Loc NONContiguous to DE*
  • Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Pennsylvania
  • Highmark Health Options Medicaid - Deptford only
  • Highmark Medicaid Health Options
  • Highmark Medicaid Health Options Delaware & Chester Counties ONLY
  • Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
  • HUMANA HEALTHY HORIZONS (FKA HUMANA MEDICAID)
  • Independance Blue Cross/Amerihealth/Keystone Health Plan
  • Insurance Administrators of America
  • INTEGRA Administrative Group (ClaimsBridge)
  • Keystone First Medicaid HMO
  • Lifetrac Transplant
  • Maryland Medicaid
  • Molina Healthcare Medicaid
  • Multiplan PPO
  • New Jersey Medicaid
  • Olympus Managed Healthcare PPO NJ
  • Olympus Managed Healthcare PPO ORL
  • Pennsylvania Medicaid
  • Plan Vista/NPPN PPO
  • Preferred Healthcare PPO
  • Prime Health Services PPO Specialty Florida
  • Priority Partners John Hopkins
  • Private Health Care Systems (PHCS)
  • Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
  • Qualcare HMO/POS/PPO
  • Seminole Tribe of Florida
  • Simply Healthcare Healthy Kids
  • Simply Healthcare Medicaid HMO
  • Star Healthcare Network
  • Star Healthcare Network
  • Sunshine SMI/CMS 19 & 21
  • Sunshine State Health Plan Medicaid
  • Three Rivers Provider Network
  • Tricare/Humana Military Health Services/CHAMPVA
  • United Healthcare Commercial Products
  • United Healthcare Community Plan Medicaid
  • United Healthcare of the Mid-Atlantic
  • UPMC Medicaid/CHIP
  • US Family Health Plan
  • Volusia Health Network PPO/EPO
  • Wellpoint Maryland Medcaid

  • Congenital Hydronephrosis
  • Cryptorchidism
  • Hypospadias
  • Neurogenic Bladder
  • Urinary Stone Disease
  • Vesicoureteral Reflux
  • Voiding Dysfunction

Research Activities

  • Ways to minimize perioperative pain
  • Ways to improve outcomes of patients who undergo urinary tract reconstruction
  • National Collaborative on Testicular Torsion聽

Medical Interests

  • Pediatric Urology
  • Neurogenic Bladder
  • Urinary Tract Reconstruction
  • Genital Reconstruction
  • Undescended Testes

  • Spinal versus general anesthesia: Comparing outcomes in pediatric patients undergoing urologic procedures; Journal of Pediatric Urology; (2023).

  • 12. Investigating the Rate of Screening for M眉llerian Anomalies in Infants With Known Renal Anomalies; Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology; (2023).

  • The Risk of Malignant Degeneration of M眉llerian Derivatives in PMDS: A Review of the Literature; Journal of Clinical Medicine; (2023).

  • Variation and Opportunities to Improve Testicular Torsion Care: The National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Pediatric Testicular Torsion Collaborative; Societies for Pediatric Urology Fall Conference; (2023).

  • Circumcision and prostate cancer: a controversy revisited; Canadian Journal of Urology; (2021).

  • Circumcision and prostate cancer: a controversy revisited; The Canadian journal of urology; (2021).

  • The Need for Improved Detection of Urinary Tract Infections in Young Children.; Frontiers in pediatrics; (2017).

  • Analyte variations in consecutive 24-hour urine collections in children.; Journal of pediatric urology; (2017).

  • Editorial Comment.; The Journal of urology; (2016).

  • Genomic copy number variation association study in Caucasian patients with nonsyndromic cryptorchidism.; BMC urology; (2016).

  • Risk model for renal scarring: Validation and implications still needed for primary care practice; JAMA Pediatrics; (2015).

  • Pathway analysis supports association of nonsyndromic cryptorchidism with genetic loci linked to cytoskeleton-dependent functions.; Human reproduction (Oxford, England); (2015).

  • Penile swelling; Visual Diagnosis and Treatment in Pediatrics: Third Edition; (2014).

  • Penile abnormalities; Visual Diagnosis and Treatment in Pediatrics: Third Edition; (2014).

  • Phenotype specific association of the TGFBR3 locus with nonsyndromic cryptorchidism.; The Journal of urology; (2014).

  • Reduced expression of androgen receptor and myosin heavy chain mRNA in cremaster muscle of boys with nonsyndromic cryptorchidism.; The Journal of urology; (2012).

  • Altered infant feeding patterns in boys with acquired nonsyndromic cryptorchidism.; Birth defects research. Part A, Clinical and molecular teratology; (2012).

  • Isolated penile lymphedema in an adolescent male: A case of metastatic Crohn's disease; Journal of Pediatric Urology; (2012).

  • Gross hematuria in a 3-year-old girl caused by a large isolated bladder hemangioma.; Urology; (2010).

  • Iatrogenic ureteral injury after laparoscopic cholecystectomy in a 13-year-old boy.; Journal of pediatric urology; (2008).

  • Analysis of five single nucleotide polymorphisms in the ESR1 gene in cryptorchidism; Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology; (2008).

  • Transperitoneal laparoscopic pyeloplasty for primary repair of ureteropelvic junction obstruction in infants and children: comparison with open surgery.; The Journal of urology; (2007).

  • Magnetic resonance imaging of renal abnormalities in patients with congenital osseous anomalies of the spine.; The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume; (2007).

  • Comparison of laparoscopic and open partial nephrectomy for duplication anomalies in children.; The Journal of urology; (2006).

  • Influence of type of conduit and site of implantation on the outcome of continent catheterizable channels.; Journal of pediatric urology; (2006).

  • Comparison of dismembered and nondismembered laparoscopic pyeloplasty in the pediatric patient.; Journal of endourology; (2004).

  • Second case of bladder carcinoma in a patient with Costello syndrome [2]; American Journal of Medical Genetics; (2000).

  • Transverse preputial flap for ventral penile skin coverage in hypospadias surgery; Techniques in Urology; (1998).

  • In-vivo whole bladder response to anticholinergic and musculotropic agents in spinal cord injured rats; Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine; (1997).

  • The Hickman peel-away sheath: Alternative for pediatric percutaneous nephrolithotomy; Journal of Endourology; (1997).

  • Gracilis muscle dynamic urethral sphincter myoplasty: Rat model experience; Journal of Urology; (1996).

  • Comparison of bladder rupture pressure after intestinal bladder augmentation (ileocystoplasty) and myomyotomy (autoaugmentation); Urology; (1996).

  • Retrieval of ureteral stents in children.; Techniques in urology; (1995).

  • Enuresis in Sickle Cell Disease; The Journal of Urology; (1995).

  • Bladder autoaugmentation.; Techniques in urology; (1995).

  • A Trans-Reservoir Technique for Correction of Ureterointestinal Obstruction in Continent Urinary Diversion; The Journal of Urology; (1995).

  • The tapered and reimplanted small bowel as a variation of the mitrofanoff procedure: Preliminary results; Journal of Urology; (1994).

  • Acid-base changes following urinary tract reconstruction for continent diversion and orthotopic bladder replacement; Journal of Urology; (1994).

  • The gastroileoileal pouch: An alternative continent urinary reservoir for patients with short bowel, acidosis and/or extensive pelvic radiation; Journal of Urology; (1993).

  • Ciprofloxacin versus gentamicin in prophylaxis against bacteremia in transrectal prostate needle biopsy; Urology; (1991).

  • Anuria secondary to percutaneous needle biopsy of a transplant kidney: A case report; Journal of Urology; (1988).

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