Dr. Lisa McMahon is a Pediatric General Surgery specialist with over 15 years of experience. Dr. McMahon's medical interests include advanced laparoscopy, Hirschsprung's disease, pectus excavatum, slipping rib syndrome, and childhood tumors. Additional interests include the specialized care of young patients diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease. In her spare time, Dr. McMahon enjoys hiking, running, and yoga.
Fellowship in Pediatric Surgery: Arkansas Children's Hospital
Residency: Mayo Clinic
MD: Texas A&M College of Medicine
American Board of Surgery
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We don’t know exactly what the risk factors for slipping rib are. Obviously, if you have laxity of your costal cartilages, then you’re at greater risk of having the pain associated with slipping rib syndrome....
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The success rate is completely determined by how compliant the patient is with bracing. With the regimen where they wore it 14 hours a day, almost everyone did repair eventually. With the regimen, the newer...
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Pectus excavatum originally was thought to be more of a cosmetic defect that people didn’t like the way their chest appeared. And we found through studies though, that patients with pectus excavatum do have lower...
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So in terms of the visit, after we’ve done the history, then we move on to the physical exam. I’ll examine your chest, or your physician will examine your chest, listen to your heart and...
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After the diagnosis is made, another way to confirm that potentially doing an operation will alleviate the pain and that is indeed the correct diagnosis is by sending them to a pain center to do...
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So generally the symptoms of slipping rib have to do with pain. It’s mainly pain in the area on either your right or left side on the lower costal area. And oftentimes you’ll hear a...
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Hello, I’m Lisa McMahon. I’m a pediatric surgeon at Pediatric Surgeons of Phoenix. I’ve been here for seven years. And prior to that, did my pediatric surgery training at Little Rock, Arkansas. I was also...
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One of the complaints that sometimes I get from adolescents is they don’t want to wear the brace at school. And that can limit the amount of time that they are actually wearing the brace....
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Usually insurance will pay for the brace or at least a portion of the brace, depending on the orthotics company. The price varies from approximately $1,000 to $2,500 if it’s a custom made brace or...
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There’s always a potential for recurrence with a pectus carinatum, and it only is when you are still growing taller, because that’s when things are still changing potentially. If a patient does notice that he...
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1919 E Thomas Rd, Phoenix, AZ, USA
(602) 933-0016
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