Dr. Robert J Cerfolio MD
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
619 19th St S Birmingham AL, 35249Rating
5/5
About
Dr. Robert Cerfolio is a cardiothoracic surgeon practicing in Birmingham, AL. Dr. Cerfolio specializes in surgical procedues of vital organs in the chest such as the heart, lungs, esophagus and more. As a cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Cerfolio typically treats conditions like heart disease and lung disease. This class of surgeon can also include cardiac surgeons, cardiovascular surgeons, congenital heart surgeons and general thoracic surgeons.
Education and Training
Univ of Rochester Sch of Med & Dentistry, Rochester Ny 1988
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Thoracic SurgeryAmerican Board of Thoracic SurgeryABTS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Transesophageal echocardiographic findings of an intracavitary cardiac metastasis from a neuroendocrine thymic carcinoma.
- Pryce's type I pulmonary intralobar sequestration presenting with massive hemoptysis.
- The incidence, etiology, and prevention of postresectional bronchopleural fistula.
- Prospective randomized trial compares suction versus water seal for air leaks.
- Fast-tracking pulmonary resections.
- Beware the malignant jellyfish.
- Predictors and treatment of persistent air leaks.
- Intracostal sutures decrease the pain of thoracotomy.
- EUS-guided FNA of the left adrenal gland in patients with thoracic or GI malignancies.
- The management of chest tubes in patients with a pneumothorax and an air leak after pulmonary resection.
- Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration in patients with non-small cell lung cancer and prior negative mediastinoscopy.
- Distribution and likelihood of lymph node metastasis based on the lobar location of nonsmall-cell lung cancer.
- Maximum standardized uptake values on positron emission tomography of esophageal cancer predicts stage, tumor biology, and survival.
- Maximum standard uptake value of mediastinal lymph nodes on integrated FDG-PET-CT predicts pathology in patients with non-small cell lung cancer.
- Survival and outcomes of pulmonary resection for non-small cell lung cancer in the elderly: a nested case-control study.
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