Dr. Jeffrey Brent Roaten MD PHD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
2100 Clinch Ave Suite 430 Knoxville TN, 37916About
Dr. Jeffrey Roaten practices Pediatric Surgery in Knoxville, TN. Dr. Roaten treats children who have an illness, injury, or disease that requires surgery. Some of the surgical problems seen by pediatric surgeons are often quite different from those commonly seen by adult or general surgeons. Dr. Roatendiagnoses, treats, and manages childrens surgical needs such as abnormalities of the groin in childhood and, surgical repair of birth defects, surgical care of tumors, transplantation operations, and endoscopic procedures.
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Novel extranuclear-targeted anthracyclines override the antiapoptotic functions of Bcl-2 and target protein kinase C pathways to induce apoptosis.
- Interaction of the novel anthracycline antitumor agent N-benzyladriamycin-14-valerate with the C1-regulatory domain of protein kinase C: structural requirements, isoform specificity, and correlation with drug cytotoxicity.
- Identifying risk factors for complications following sentinel lymph node biopsy for melanoma.
- Sentinel lymph node biopsy for melanoma and other melanocytic tumors in adolescents.
- Survival in sentinel lymph node-positive pediatric melanoma.
- Size of sentinel node metastases predicts other nodal disease and survival in malignant melanoma.
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