Dr. Ramon Cabanas, MD

Expert Publications

• The concept of the sentinel lymph node.
• Application of the sentinel node concept in urogenital cancer.
• Anatomy and biopsy of sentinel lymph nodes.
• Lymphatic mapping and sentinel lymphadenectomy in urology.
• Splenic conservation; splenic artery ligation as adjuvant surgical measure.
• The use of testicular lymphatics to bypass obstructed lymphatics in the dog.
• An approach for the treatment of penile carcinoma.

Media Releases

Get to know General Surgeon Dr. Ramon Cabanas, who serves patients in Brooklyn, New York.

A highly trained general surgeon, Dr. Cabanas tends to patients at SUNY Downstate Medical Center at Bay Ridge, offering comprehensive ambulatory surgery services. These are procedures that do not require an overnight hospital stay.

Back in 1963, he graduated with his medical degree from the Universidad Nacional de Asunción Faculty of Medicine in Paraguay. Upon relocating to the United States, he completed his internship at De Paul Hospital in 1974, and his residency in general surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital in 1979.

General surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, appendix and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland. A general surgeon performs a wide range of abdominal surgeries for many forms of intestinal and abdominal wall neoplasms, gallbladder disease, gastric and pancreatic disease. They follow the patient through critical care and surgical recovery all the way to outpatient care.

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