Dr. Elizabeth A Pomfret M.D., PH.D.
Surgeon
Lahey Clinic Medical Ctr 41 Mall Road , 4 Wes Burlington MA, 01805About
Dr. Elizabeth Pomfret is a general surgeon practicing in Burlington, MA. Dr. Pomfret specializes in abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas and often thyroid glands. General surgeons are able to deal with almost any surgical or critical care emergency, also involving the skin or soft tissue trauma. Dr. Pomfret provides quality surgical service for gravely ill or injured patients and is able to respond quickly due to knowledge of various surgical procedures.
Education and Training
Boston Univ Sch of Med, Boston Ma 1990
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Cavernous hemangioma of the liver: anatomic resection vs. enucleation.
- Distal splenorenal shunt: role, indications, and utility in the era of liver transplantation.
- Epidural catheter and increased prothrombin time after right lobe hepatectomy for living donor transplantation.
- Impact of multidetector CT on donor selection and surgical planning before living adult right lobe liver transplantation.
- Accuracy of volumetric measurements after virtual right hepatectomy in potential donors undergoing living adult liver transplantation.
- Live donor liver transplantation.
- Transplantation of the right hepatic lobe.
- Liver regeneration after living adult right lobe transplantation.
- Early and late complications in the right-lobe adult living donor.
- Pathologic analysis of right-lobe graft failure in adult-to-adult live donor liver transplantation.
- Severe steatosis as the initial histologic manifestation of recurrent hepatitis C genotype 3.
- Living donor adult liver transplantation: a longitudinal study of the donor's quality of life.
- Improved survival after live donor adult liver transplantation (LDALT) using right lobe grafts: program experience and lessons learned.
- Distal splenorenal shunt: preferred treatment for recurrent variceal hemorrhage in the patient with well-compensated cirrhosis.
- Striving for perfection: evaluation of the right lobe live liver donor.
Awards
- 1990 Cum Laude Boston Univ, .
- . 1990 Janet Glasgow Memorial Achievement Award
- 1989 Alpha Omega Alpha, .
- 1988 Llowship, .
- . 1988 Boston Univ Womens Council Student Award
- 2006 Kenneth W. Warren, MD Lectureship Award
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