Dr. Thomas W Shields M.D.
Emergency Physician
320 Hospital Dr Emergency Dept. Martinsville VA, 24112About
Dr. Thomas Shields practices Emergency Medicine in Martinsville, VA. Dr. Shields assesses patients who seek immediate medical attention at any time of day or night. Emergency Medicine Physicians are trained to efficiently work with each patient and situation no matter how acute or life-threatening. Dr. Shields examines patients, determines means of testing, diagnoses conditions, and decides the best treatment methods.
Board Certification
Emergency MedicineAmerican Board of Emergency MedicineABEM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The solitary pulmonary nodule. Ten-year follow-up of veterans administration-armed forces cooperative study.
- Editorial: Interstitial or external irradiation for nonresectable carcinoma of the lung.
- Incontinuity neck dissection for laryngohypopharyngeal carcinoma.
- Functioning insulinoma superimposed on idiopathic epilepsy.
- Screening, diagnosis, and staging of non-small cell lung cancer and consideration of unusual primary tumors of the lungs.
- Variations pertaining to the aortic arches and their branches; with comments on surgically important types.
- Endobronchial hamartoma; report of a case.
- Preoperative evaluation of patients with clinically resectable bronchogenic carcinoma; role of biopsy of nonpalpable scalene nodes.
- Significance of fatal pulmonary embolism in immediate postoperative period.
- The diagnostic value of biopsy of nonpalpable scalene lymph nodes in chest diseases.
- Primary hyperparathyroidism; its varied clinical pattern.
- Judgment in breast cancer.
- Pneumonectomy in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis.
- Whole blood transfusions in surgical practice.
- Leiomyoma of the esophagus.
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