Laura Fenton, MD

Recognitions

• Top Doctor in Denver, 5280 Magazine (2011)
  Voted a 5280 best doctor by my peers in response to the question, "Which physician would you trust to treat you and your family?"
• Teaching Award, Radiology Residents (2000)
  
• Teaching Award, Radiology Residents (2004)
  
• Teaching Award, Radiology Residents (2007)
  
• Teaching Award, Radiology Residents (2008)
  
• Research Award, Department of Radiology (2003)
  
• Top Doctor in Denver, 5280 Magazine (2012)
• Top Doctor in Denver, 5280 Magazine (2013)
• Top Doctor in Denver, 5280 Magazine (2014)
• Top Doctor in Denver, 5280 Magazine (2015)
• Top Doctor in Denver, 5280 Magazine (2016)
• Haller Teaching award, Society for Pediatric Radiology (2015)

Publications

• Bireley W, VanHove J, Gallagher R, Fenton LZ. Urea Cycle Disorders: Brain MRI and Neurological Outcome, Pediatric Radiology, online Publication Oct 12, 2011.
• Stence NV, Fenton LZ, Goldenberg NA, Armstong-Wells J, Bernard TJ. Craniocervical arterial dissection in children: Diagnosis and treatment. Curr Treat Options Neurol. 2011 Dec; 13(6): 636-48.
• Oluigbo CO, Wilkinson CC, Stence NV, Fenton LZ, Handler MH. Comparison of Outcomes following Decompressive Craniectomy in Children with Accidental and Nonaccidental Blunt Cranial Trauma. Journal of Neurosurgery Pediatrics. February 2012.
• VanHove J, Fenton LZ et al. Succinyl-CoA Ligaase Deficiency: A mitochondrial Hepatoencephalopathy. Pediatric Research, 2010 August 68 (2); 159-164.
• Brumbaugh DE, Tearse P, Cree-Green M, Fenton LZ et al. Intrahepatic Fat is Increased in the Neonatal Offspring of Obese Women with Gestational Diabetes. Journal of Pediatrics. 2012 December 19, epub. PMID 23260099.
• Goldenberg NA, Jenkins S, Jack J, Armstrong-Wells J, Fenton LZ, Stence NV et al. Arteriopathy, D-Dimer and Risk of Poor Neurologic Outcome in Childhood-Onset Arterial Ischemic Stroke. Journal of Pediatrics. 2012 December 20, epub.
• Stence NV, Coughlin CR, Fenton LZ, Thomas JA. Distinctive Pattern of Restricted Diffusion in a Neonate with Molybdenum Cofactor Deficiency. Pediatric Radiology, 2012 December, epub.
• Brandon JL, Schroeder S, Furuta GT, Capocelli K, Masterson JC, Fenton LZ. CT Imaging Features of Eosinophilic Colitis in Children. Pediatric Radiology, 2013 January 30, epub.
• Eisenman K, Fenton LZ, Lovell M, Karrer F, Greffe B. Brief Report: Chronic Neuroblastoma Presenting with Multifocal Skin Involvement and Intracranial Metastases. Pediatric Lung and Cancer, accepted for publication 2013
• Bagrosky BM, Hayes KL, Koo Phillip J, Fenton LZ. 18 F-FDG PET/CT Evaluation of Pediatric Patients with Suspected Spinal Fusion Hardware Infection. Pediatric Radiology, accepted for publication 2013
• Stence NV, Coughlin CR, Fenton LZ, Thomas JA. Distinctive Pattern of Restricted Diffusion in a Neonate with Molybdenum Cofactore Deficiency. Pediatric Radiology, 2013 43 (7): 882-885
• Brandon JL, Schroeder S, Furuta GT, Capocelli K, Masterson JC, Fenton LZ. CT imaging Features of Eosinophilic Colitis in Children. Pediatric Radiology 2013 43 (6): 697-702.
• Bagrosky BM, Hayes KL, Koo PJ, Fenton LZ. F-FDG PET/CT Evaluation of Children and Young Adults with Suspected Spinal Fusion Hardware Infection. Pediatric Radiology 2013 43 (8): 991-1000.
• Wray CD, Friedrich MW, du Start D, Pantaleo S, Smet J, Kucera C, Fenton LZ, Scharer G, Van Coster R, Van Hove JL. A new mutation in MT-ND1 m.3928G>C p. V208L causes Leigh Disease with Infantile Spasms. Mitochondrion 2013, September: 656-661.
• Swerdlow M, Fenton LZ. Bronchopulmonary Foregut Malformations. Pediatric Radiology, ed Janet Reid, Oxford University Press, 2014, pgs. 28-32
• Qandeel M, Fenton LZ. Henoch-Schonlein Purpura. Pediatric Radiology, ed Janet Reid, Oxford University Press, 2014, pgs 180-182
• Delavan JA, Fenton LZ. Pediatric Fractures. Pediatric Radiology, ed Janet Reid, Oxford University Press, 2014, pgs 265-272.
• Malone LJ, Fenton LZ, Weinman JP, Anagnost MR, Browne LP. Pediatric Lymphangiectasia: An Imaging Spectrum. Pediatric Radiology 2015 Apr; 45(4):562-569.
• Menard-Katcher C, Swerdlow MP, Mehta P, Furuta GT, Fenton LZ. Contribution of Esophagram to the Evaluation of Complicated Pediatric Eosinophilic Esophagitis. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition 2015 November; 61(5):541-546.
• Goldenberg NA, Abshire T, Blatchford PJ, Fenton LZ, Halperin JL, Hiatt WR, Kessler CM, Kittelson JM, Manco-Johnson MJ, Spyropoulos AC, Steg PG, Stence NV, Turpie AG, Schulman S. Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial on Duration of Therapy for Thrombosis in Children and Young Adults (the Kids-DOTT Trial): Pilot/Feasilibity Phase Findings. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis 2015 September; 13(9):1597-1605.
• Press CA, Lindsay A, Stence NV, Fenton LZ, Bernard TJ, Mirsky DM. Cavernous Sinus Thrombosis in Children: Imaging Characteristics and Clinical Outcomes. Stroke. 2015 Sep; 46(9):2657-60.
• Patibandla MP, Ridder T, Dorris K, Torok MR, Liu AK, Handler MH, Stence N, Fenton LZ, Hankinson TC. Atypical Pediatric Ganglioglioma is Common and Associated with a Less Favorable Clinical Course. Journal of Neurosurgery Pediatrics. 2015 Oct2:1-8. (Epub ahead of print).
• Rigual DA, Stence NV, Fenton LZ, Kedia S, Vossough A, Mirsky DM. The Spectrum of Imaging Findings in Hemiplegic Migraine. Neurographics. Accepted 2015
• Ritchey Z, Hollatz AL, Fenton LZ, Maxwell EC, Bernard TJ, Stence NV. Pediatric Cortical Vein Thrombosis: Frequency and Association with Venous Infarction. Stroke. Accepted 2015
• Lindsay AJ, Rush SZ, Fenton LZ. Pediatric posterior fossa ganglioglioma: unique MRI features and correlation with BRAF V600E mutation status. J Neurooncol. 2014 Jun;118(2):395-404. PubMed PMID: 24792487
• Malone LJ, Fenton LZ, Weinman JP, Anagnost MR, Browne LP. Pediatric lymphangiectasia: an imaging spectrum. Pediatr Radiol. 2014 Oct 10. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 25301383
• Fenton LZ, Karakas SP, Baskin L, Campbell JB. Sonography of pediatric blunt scrotal trauma: what the pediatric urologist wants to know. Pediatr Radiol. 2016 Jun;46(7):1049-58. PubMed PMID: 27112160
• Ritchey Z, Hollatz AL, Weitzenkamp D, Fenton LZ, Maxwell EC, Bernard TJ, Stence NV. Pediatric Cortical Vein Thrombosis: Frequency and Association With Venous Infarction. Stroke. 2016 Mar;47(3):866-8. PubMed PMID: 26888536
• Freeman J, Deleyiannis F, Bernard TJ, Fenton LZ, Wilkinson CC. Moyamoya in a patient with Smith-Magenis Syndrome. Pediatric Neurosurgery. 2017; 52(3): 195-204 doi: 10.1159/000459627
• Beard L, Wymore E, Fenton LZ, Coughlin CR, Weisfeld-Adams JD. Lethal neonatal hyperammonemia in severe ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) deficiency compounded by large hepatic portosystemic shunt. J Inherit Metab Dis 2017 Jan; 40 (1): 159-160. Doi: 10.1007/s10545-016-9985-2
• Flood T, Appiawiah N, Hankinson T, Maloney JA, Mirsky DM, Strain JD, Fenton LZ. AJNR Case of the month : An 11-month old boy with right sided neurological deficits: Atypical Meningioma, WHO grade II, invasive. American Journal of Neuroradiology. April 2016.
• Neuberger I, Fenton LZ, Treece A. AJNR Case of the month: Pituitary duplication with nasal hamartoma and palatal hairy polyp. American Journal of neuroradiology, accepted and pending publication.
• Fenton LZ. Pediatric Elbow Module for BAR (Beginning and advanced radiology) Lab at CU Department of Radiology for medical students and residents (multiple services including radiology, surgery, pediatrics) education. Invited by Dr. Nikki Restauri. 2017
• Fenton LZ, Hay TC. John D. Strain, MD (1951-2018). Pediatr Radiol. 2018 Oct;48(11):1681-1682. PubMed PMID: 30146657
• Baltensperger A, Mirsky D, Maloney J, Neuberger I, Fenton LZ, Bernard T, Borgstede J, Stence N. Cost and Utility of Routine Contrast-enhanced Neck MRA in a Pediatric Stroke Evaluation Protocol. American Journal of Neuroradiology 2019 Dec; 40(12): 2143-2145. Doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A6315.
• Dahl NA, Liu AK Foreman NK, Widener M, Fenton LZ, Macy ME. Bevacizumab in the treatment of radiation injury for children with central nervous system tumors. Childs Nerv Syst 2019 Nov; 35(11): 2013-2046. doi: 10.1007/s00381-019-04304-y. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31367784
• Kalata KE, Osborne C, Willis A, Navarro K, Fenton LZ, Smith C. Disseminated Histoplasmosis as an AIDS-Defining Illness presenting as Fever of Unknown Origin in an 11-year-old Female. Case Reports in Pediatrics 2019 Vol 2019, Article ID 9417102 4 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/9417102.
• Stence, NV, Fenton LZ, Levek C, Tong, S, Coughlin CR, Hennermann JB, Wortmann SB, Van Hove JLK. Brain imaging in classic nonketotic hyperglycinemia: quantitative analysis and relation to phenotype. J Inherit Metab Dis 2019 Feb; 42 (3): 438-450. Doi: 10.1002/jimd.12072. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jimd.12072
• Nguyen N, Hayes K, Fenton LZ, Furuta GT, Menard-Katcher C. Role of pill esophagram to identify pediatric patients with Eosinophilic Esophagitis amenable to therapeutic dilation. Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition 2020: JPGN-20-189R1.
• 56. Ritchey Z, Bernard TJ, Fenton LZ, Maloney JA, Mirsky DM, Neuberger I, Sriram I, Seinfeld J, Stence NV. Stroke Recurrence in Children with Vertebral Artery Dissecting Aneurysm. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2022 June; 43(6): 913-918. Doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A7518. Epub 2022 May 12. PMID 35550284
• 5. Fenton LZ. Imaging of Congenital Malformations of the Brain. Clinics in Perinatology Special issue on Neuroimaging focused collection Advances in Imaging of the Fetus and Newborn. 49 (2022) 587-601. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clp.2022.05.002. Elsevier

Professional Memberships

• Society for Pediatric Radiology, Member
• Radiology Society of North America (RSNA), Member
• American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS), Member
• Colorado Radiological Society (CRS), Member

Practice Locations

Children's Hospital Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
13123 East 16th Ave
Aurora, CO 80045
720-777-1234

Children's Hospital Colorado - Colorado Fetal Care Center
13123 E 16th Ave, B735
Aurora, CO 80045
720-777-4463

Hospital Affiliation

• University of Colorado Hospital
• Children's Hospital Colorado

Specialty Information

Specialties

• Pediatric Radiology, Board Certification (2008)
• Diagnostic, Board Certification

Conditions & Treatments

• Radiology - Abdominal Imaging
• Radiology
• Radiology - CT Scans
• Radiology - Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
• Radiology - Neuroradiology
• Radiology - Nuclear Medicine
• Radiology - X-Rays
• Radiology - Thoracic Imaging