Theodore Z. Polley, Jr., M.D.
Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery

Practicing at:
C.S. Mott Children's Hospital
St. Joseph Mercy Health System
St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center
biography publications
  1. Wheatley MJ, Wesley JR, Coran AG and Polley TZ Jr.: Hirschsprung's disease in adolescents and adults. Dis Col and Rect 33: 622-629, 1990.
  2. Young W, Blane C, White SJ, Polley TZ Jr.: Congenital biliary dilatation: a spectrum of disease detailed by ultrasound. British Journal of Radiology 63 (749): 333-6, 1990
  3. Manning PB, Polley TZ Jr. and Oldham KT: Choledochocele: An unusual form of choledochal cyst. Ped Surg Intl 5:22-26, 1990.
  4. Coran AG and Polley TZ Jr.: Surgical management of ambiguous genitalia in the infant and child. J Ped Surg 26:812-820, 1991.
  5. Coran AG, Drongowski RA, Maio RF, Polley TZ Jr.: Trauma scores, accident deformity codes and car restraints in children. J Ped Surg 28:1072-1075, 1993.
  6. Zerin JM and Polley TZ Jr.: Malrotation in patients with duodenal atresia: A true association or an expected finding on postoperative upper gastrointestinal barium study? Pediatric Radiology 24:170-72, 1994.
  7. Teitelbaum DH, Polley TZ Jr. and Obeid F.: Laparoscopic diagnosis and excision of Meckel's diverticulum. J Ped Surg 29(4): 1-2,1994.
  8. VanCamp J, Polley TZ Jr. and Coran AG: Pancreatitis in children: Characterization of the diagnosis and etiology in 57 patients. Ped Surg Intl 9:492-497, 1994.
  9. Teitelbaum DH, Polley TZ Jr., Obeid F: Laparoscopic diagnosis and excision of Meckel's diverticulum. J Ped Surg, 29(4): 1-2, 1994.
  10. Pranikoff T, Hirschl RB, Schlesinger A, Polley TZ Jr. and Coran AG: Resolution of splenic injury after non-operative management. J Ped Surg 29:1366-1369, 1994.
  11. Gerndt SJ, Conley JL, Lowell MJ, Holmes J, Marsh E, Larin LR, Taheri PA and Polley TZ Jr.: Pre-hospital classification combined with an in-hospital trauma radio system response reduces cost and duration of evaluation of the injured patient. Surgery, 118: 789-796, 1995.
  12. Reickert CA, Hirschl RB, Schumacher R, Geiger JD, Cox C. Teitelbaum DH, Polley TZ Jr., Harmon CM, Lelli JL, Coran AG.: Effect of very delayed repair of congenital diaphragmatic hernias on survival and extracorporeal life support use. Surgery, 120(4): 766-72, 1996.
  13. Krupnick AS, Teitelbaum DH, Geiger JD, Strouse PJ, Cox CS, Blane CE, Polley TZ Jr.: Use of abdominal ultrasonography to assess pediatric splenic trauma: Potential pitfalls in the diagnosis. Annals of Surgery 225(4): 408-414, 1997.
  14. Reickert CA, Hirschl RB, Schumacher R, Geiger JD, Cox CS, Teitelbaum DH, Polley TZ Jr, Harmon CM, Lelli JL, Coran AG: The effect of very delayed repair of congenital diaphragmatic hernia on survival and ECLS use. Surgery 120 (4): 766-773, 1997.
  15. Teitelbaum DH, Polley TZ Jr., Coran AG, Rodriguez J and Conley JL: Traumatic splenic cysts: Their natural history and treatment. J Trauma (Accepted with revisions).
  16. Reed D and Polley TZ Jr.: Intestinal atresia in the newborn: A product of in utero intussusception. Can J Surg.
  17. Calhoun JG, Zelenock GB, Hockman EM, Polley TZ Jr., Erlandson EE, Davis WK and Turcotte JG: Analysis of publications in surgical education: Present status and implications for the training of physicians and for research endeavors in surgical education. Presented to the Association of Surgical Education in Toronto, Canada in April 1985 (submitted for publication).
  18. Polley TZ Jr.: Mechanism of fatal chest injury in children by baseball impact based on animal tests (submitted for publication).
  19. Geiger JD, Dinh VV, Teitelbaum DH, Lelli JL, Harmon CM, Hirschl RB, Polley TZ, Drongowski BA, Coran AG: The Lateral Approach for Open Splenectomy. Journal of Pediatrics 33 (7): 1153-1157, 1998.
  20. Van Leeuwen K, Teitelbaum DH, Hirschl RB, Austin E, Adelman SH, Polley TZ, Jr., Marshall KW, Coran AG. Prenatal diagnosis of congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation and its postnatal presentation, operative indications and natural history. J Ped Surg 34:794-799, 1999.
  21. Coran AG, Blackman PM, Sikina C, Harmon CM, Lelli JL Jr., Geiger JD, Hirschl RB, Teitelbaum DH, Polley TZ Jr., Golladay ES, Austin E, Adelman SH. Specialty Networking in Pediatric Surgery: A paradigm for the future of academic surgery. Ann Surg 230:331-339,1999.