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Articles & Publications
Journal Articles
Prabhala T, Adamo MA, Edwards M. Response to letter regarding "Evaluation of thoracolumbar spine injury utilizing plain film and physical exam in the pediatric population: A multicenter study". J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2026 Oct 13. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000005185. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42868080.
Ricca R, Greene AC, Vu MT, Hamilton NA, Ladd MR, Lotakis DM, Robie DK, Romain C, Edwards MJ, Kennedy AP Jr, Zagory JA, Sutyak KM, Fallat ME, Zeug A, Chandler NM, Badru FO, Wadie G, Iocono J, Wolf LL, Purcell LN, Browne M, Bonasso Ii PC, Prasad R, Alaish SM, DeRoss AL, Jang SG, Martin AE, Gow KW. A national geospatial analysis of pediatric surgical practices and the children they serve. J Pediatr Surg. 2026 Aug 29:163432. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2026.163432. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42667980.
Gow KW, Martin AE, Jang SG, Greene AC, Vu MT, Hamilton NA, Ladd MR, Lotakis DM, Robie DK, Romain C, Edwards MJ, Kennedy AP Jr, Zagory JA, Sutyak KM, Fallat ME, Zeug A, Chandler NM, Badru FO, Wadie G, Iocono J, Wolf LL, Purcell LN, Browne M, Bonasso PC 2nd, Prasad R, Alaish SM, Ricca R, DeRoss AL. A national assessment of the pediatric surgery workforce and practice structure in the United States. J Pediatr Surg. 2026 Jul 16:163289. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2026.163289. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42462998.
Martin AE, DeRoss AL, Jang SG, Greene AC, Vu MT, Hamilton NA, Ladd MR, Lotakis DM, Robie DK, Romain C, Edwards MJ, Kennedy AP, Zagory JA, Sutyak KM, Fallat ME, Zeug A, Chandler NM, Badru FO, Wadie G, Iocono J, Wolf LL, Purcell LN, Browne M, Bonasso PC, Prasad R, Alaish SM, Ricca R, Gow KW. Locum tenens coverage and access to pediatric surgical care in the United States. J Pediatr Surg. 2026 Jul 20:163300. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2026.163300. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42476218; PMCID: PMC13592455.
Wilson NA, Lima SM, Lillvis D, Wu YS, Fabiano T, Nordin AB, Edwards M, Mechlowicz S, Desai M, Vu N, Duron V, Wallenstein K, Salik I, Wilson S, Sofjan I, Philipose J, Bullaro F, Klein-Cloud R, Wakeman DS. Historical redlining and neighborhood deprivation are associated with caregiver exclusion following evaluation for suspected child physical abuse: A multicenter study. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2026 Jun 12. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000005078. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42283443.
Prabhala T, Herzog A, Scheub R, Ata A, Adamo MA, Bevington T, Fabiano T, Pierce D, Salik I, Edelman D, Pierson L, Coffey B, Wakeman DS, Chess M, Wallenstein K, Edwards M. Evaluation of thoracolumbar spine injury utilizing plain film and physical exam in the pediatric population: A multicenter study. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2026 Jun 1;100(6):915-921. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000004941. Epub 2026 May 22. PMID: 42172649.
Eleanya OA, Singh D, Ata A, Breed Z, Stain SC, Edwards MJ. High Risk Predictors for Thoracic Aortic Injury in Pediatric Blunt Chest Trauma. J Surg Res. 2026 Jan;317:147-153. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2025.11.037. Epub 2025 Dec 10. PMID: 41380221.
Herzog A, Goyal A, Ata A, Brocks R, Edwards MJ. Impact of prematurity and gestational age at surgery on diaphragmatic plication outcomes. J Pediatr Surg. 2026 Jan;61(1):162536. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2025.162536. Epub 2025 Aug 12. PMID: 40803409.
Prabhala T, Herzog A, Ata A, Adamo MA, Edwards M. Pediatric Blunt Thoracolumbar Spinal Injury: Defining the Burden of Injury and Imaging Practices. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2025 Dec 1;41(12):944-949. doi: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000003460. Epub 2025 Jul 29. PMID: 40726177.
Wilson NA, Ruffolo L, Juviler P, Fabiano T, Kelly W, Lillvis D, Edwards M, Vu N, Chiou R, Wallenstein K, Craven A, Klein-Cloud R, Bullaro F, Philipose J, Salik I, Fisher J, Wakeman DS. Neighborhood deprivation is a risk factor for severe child physical abuse: A multicenter cohort investigation. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2025 Sep 1;99(3):453-459. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000004560. Epub 2025 Feb 6. PMID: 39910714.
Chan A, Feller MD, Dawson K, Morrissey K, Ata A, Edwards MJ. Protocolized abuse screening to decrease provider bias and increase capture of potential events. Inj Epidemiol. 2024 Mar 28;11(1):11. doi: 10.1186/s40621-024-00495-4. PMID: 38549120; PMCID: PMC10976801.
Chen KK, Edwards MJ. Delayed presentation of a right congenital diaphragmatic hernia following left congenital diaphragmatic hernia repair in infancy. Int J Surg Case Rep. 2023 Apr;105:108020. doi: 10.1016/j.ijscr.2023.108020. Epub 2023 Mar 21. PMID: 36963226; PMCID: PMC10053395.
Parikh RM, Ata A, Edwards MJ. A Contemporary Review of Surgical Approach and Outcomes in Pediatric Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis. J Surg Res. 2023 May;285:142-149. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2022.12.034. Epub 2023 Jan 18. PMID: 36669393.
Ambati SR, Barry S, Matthew AA, Edwards M. Transvaginal Migration of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunts in Children: Review of Literature. Asian J Neurosurg. 2022 Oct 7;17(3):399-406. doi: 10.1055/s-0042-1757218. PMID: 36398177; PMCID: PMC9665996.
Nguyen PN, Petchers A, Choksi S, Edwards MJ. Common Conditions II: Acute Appendicitis, Intussusception, and Gastrointestinal Bleeding. Surg Clin North Am. 2022 Oct;102(5):797-808. doi: 10.1016/j.suc.2022.07.010. Epub 2022 Sep 7. PMID: 36209746.
Nguyen BN, Edwards MJ, Srivatsa S, Wakeman D, Calderon T, Lamoshi A, Wallenstein K, Fabiano T, Cantor B, Bass K, Narayan A, Zohn R, Chess M, Thomas RD. Clinical and radiographic predictors of the need for facial CT in pediatric blunt trauma: a multi-institutional study. Trauma Surg Acute Care Open. 2022 Apr 24;7(1):e000899. doi: 10.1136/tsaco-2022-000899. PMID: 35529807; PMCID: PMC9039460.
Edwards MJ, Jenkel T, Weller B, Weber A, Zhu K, Parikh R, Ata A, Danziger C. Computed Tomography Scan Utilization in Pediatric Trauma: Impact on Length of Stay and Incidence of False Positive Findings. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2021 Dec 1;37(12):e1478-e1481. doi: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000002087. PMID: 32205803.
Strait L, Sussman R, Ata A, Edwards MJ. Utilization of CT imaging in minor pediatric head, thoracic, and abdominal trauma in the United States. J Pediatr Surg. 2020 Sep;55(9):1766-1772. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2020.01.006. Epub 2020 Jan 24. PMID: 32029235.
Kim W, Ahn N, Ata A, Adamo MA, Entezami P, Edwards M. Pediatric cervical spine injury in the United States: Defining the burden of injury, need for operative intervention, and disparities in imaging across trauma centers. J Pediatr Surg. 2021 Feb;56(2):293-296. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2020.05.009. Epub 2020 May 11. PMID: 32561174.
Martin JE, Harkness W, Edwards M. Letter to the Editor. Humanitarian care: a plea for the consideration of ethical foundations and secondary effects. Neurosurg Focus. 2019 Aug 1;47(2):E19. doi: 10.3171/2019.1.FOCUS1917. PMID: 31370022.
Edwards MJ, White CE, Remick KN, Edwards KD, Gross KR. Army General Surgery's Crisis of Conscience. J Am Coll Surg. 2018 Jun;226(6):1190-1194. doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2018.03.001. Epub 2018 Mar 8. PMID: 29524661.
Shi X, Edwards MJ, Guice J, Strilka R, Propper B. Clinical and laboratory predictors of blood loss in young swine: a model for pediatric hemorrhage. Pediatr Surg Int. 2018 Jul;34(7):789-796. doi: 10.1007/s00383-018-4287-4. Epub 2018 May 28. PMID: 29808278.
Reeves PT, Auerbach MM, Le TD, Caldwell NW, Edwards MJ, Mann-Salinas EA, Gurney JM, Stockinger ZT, Borgman MA. Analysis of Pediatric Trauma in Combat Zone to Inform High-Fidelity Simulation Predeployment Training. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2018 Apr;19(4):e199-e206. doi: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000001461. PMID: 29369076.
Edwards M, Randall V, Yu C, Crouch G, Foster C. Defining the competency of professionalism at two military medical centers. Int J Med Educ. 2017 Oct 9;8:351-352. doi: 10.5116/ijme.59c6.2634. PMID: 29035871; PMCID: PMC5694699.
Buehner M, Aden J, Borgman M, Love P, Wright B, Edwards M. A Pediatric Application of the STRAC Regional Hospital Trauma Registry Database: Pediatric Trauma Deaths in South Central Texas During 2004-2013. Tex Med. 2017 Jan 1;113(1):e1. PMID: 28072893.
McLeroy RD, Ellis JL, Karnopp JM, Dellavolpe J, Gurney JM, Keenan S, Powell D, Riesberg JC, Edwards M, Matos R, Pamplin JC. Case of a 5-Year-Old Foreign National Who Sustained Penetrating Abdominal Trauma. J Spec Oper Med. 2016 Winter;16(4):110-113. doi: 10.55460/DGS0-Q8OR. PMID: 28088829.
Edwards MJ, Edwards KD, White C, Shepps C, Shackelford S. Saving the Military Surgeon: Maintaining Critical Clinical Skills in a Changing Military and Medical Environment. J Am Coll Surg. 2016 Jun;222(6):1258-64. doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2016.03.031. Epub 2016 May 12. PMID: 27185158.
Shi X, Edwards MJ. Pediatric Wartime Injuries in Afghanistan and Iraq: What Have We Learned? US Army Med Dep J. 2016 Apr-Sep;(2-16):153-6. PMID: 27215884.
Cole W, Edwards MJ, Burnett MW. Providing care to children in times of war. Mil Med. 2015 Jun;180(6):609-11. doi: 10.7205/MILMED-D-14-00350. PMID: 26032375.
Edwards MJ, Lustik MB, Clark ME, Creamer KM, Tuggle D. The effects of balanced blood component resuscitation and crystalloid administration in pediatric trauma patients requiring transfusion in Afghanistan and Iraq 2002 to 2012. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2015 Feb;78(2):330-5. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000000469. PMID: 25757119.
Neff LP, Cannon JW, Morrison JJ, Edwards MJ, Spinella PC, Borgman MA. Clearly defining pediatric massive transfusion: cutting through the fog and friction with combat data. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2015 Jan;78(1):22-8; discussion 28-9. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000000488. PMID: 25539199.
Edwards MJ. Reply to letter to the editor. J Pediatr Surg. 2014 Dec;49(12):1873-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2014.09.072. Epub 2014 Oct 8. PMID: 25487506.
Edwards M, Sterbis JR, Olson HL. A Military Transitional Year Professionalism Curriculum. J Grad Med Educ. 2014 Sep;6(3):571-3. doi: 10.4300/JGME-D-13-00399.1. PMID: 26279787; PMCID: PMC4535226.
Edwards MJ, Lustik M, Eichelberger MR, Elster E, Azarow K, Coppola C. Blast injury in children: an analysis from Afghanistan and Iraq, 2002-2010. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2012 Nov;73(5):1278-83. doi: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318270d3ee. Erratum in: J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2014 Aug;77(2):389. PMID: 23117384.
Sarkar J, Wolfe SQ, Speck C, Woods E, Lustik MB, Edwards KD, Edwards MJ. Pediatric falls from buildings: defining the burden of injury in Hawai'i. Hawaii J Med Public Health. 2014 May;73(5):132-6. PMID: 24843835; PMCID: PMC4021729.
Edwards MJ, Lustik M, Carlson T, Tabak B, Farmer D, Edwards K, Eichelberger M. Surgical interventions for pediatric blast injury: an analysis from Afghanistan and Iraq 2002 to 2010. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2014 Mar;76(3):854-8. doi: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3182aa2e66. PMID: 24553560.
Edwards MJ, Lustik M, Burnett MW, Eichelberger M. Pediatric inpatient humanitarian care in combat: Iraq and Afghanistan 2002 to 2012. J Am Coll Surg. 2014 May;218(5):1018-23. doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2013.12.050. Epub 2014 Feb 12. PMID: 24745567.
Balent E, Edwards M, Lustik M, Martin P. Caudal anesthesia with sedation for inguinal hernia repair in high risk neonates. J Pediatr Surg. 2014 Aug;49(8):1304-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2013.11.005. Epub 2013 Nov 12. PMID: 25092095.
Pinsker JE, McBayne K, Edwards M, Jensen K, Crudo DF, Bauer AJ. Transient hypothyroidism in premature infants after short-term topical iodine exposure: an avoidable risk? Pediatr Neonatol. 2013 Apr;54(2):128-31. doi: 10.1016/j.pedneo.2012.10.005. Epub 2012 Dec 3. PMID: 23590958.
Edwards MJ, Crudo DF, Carlson TL, Pedersen AM, Keller L. Pancreatic atrophy and diabetes mellitus following blunt abdominal trauma. J Pediatr Surg. 2013 Feb;48(2):432-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2012.11.030. PMID: 23414880.
Johnson SM, Grace N, Edwards MJ, Woo R, Puapong D. Thoracoscopic segmentectomy for treatment of congenital lung malformations. J Pediatr Surg. 2011 Dec;46(12):2265-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2011.09.012. PMID: 22152862.
Blevins WA, Cafasso DE, Fernandez M, Edwards MJ. Minimally invasive colopexy for pediatric Chilaiditi syndrome. J Pediatr Surg. 2011 Mar;46(3):e33-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2010.11.039. PMID: 21376185.
Creamer KM, Edwards MJ, Shields CH, Thompson MW, Yu CE, Adelman W. Pediatric wartime admissions to US military combat support hospitals in Afghanistan and Iraq: learning from the first 2,000 admissions. J Trauma. 2009 Oct;67(4):762-8. doi: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31818b1e15. PMID: 19820583.
Nguyen CT, Kratovil T, Edwards MJ. Retroperitoneal teratoma presenting as an abscess in childhood. J Pediatr Surg. 2007 Nov;42(11):E21-3. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2007.07.053. PMID: 18022422.
Millendez MB, Ridout E, Pole G, Edwards M. Neonatal hyperreninemia and hypertensive heart failure relieved with resection of an intralobar pulmonary sequestration. J Pediatr Surg. 2007 Jul;42(7):1276-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2007.02.021. PMID: 17618895.
Edwards MJ, Kollenberg SJ, Brandt ML, Wesson DE, Nuchtern JG, Minifee PK, Cass DL. Surgery for peptic ulcer disease in children in the post- histamine2-blocker era. J Pediatr Surg. 2005 May;40(5):850-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2005.01.056. PMID: 15937829.
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