Dr. Diana L. Farmer MD
Surgical Oncologist | Surgical Oncology
400 Parnassus Ave San Francisco CA, 94143About
Dr. Diana Farmer is a surgical oncologist practicing in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Farmer specializes in diagnosing, staging and treating cancer-related symptoms. Surgical oncologists also decide if the patient is a candidate for surgery or other cancer treatments based on certain factors such as age, physical fitness and other possible coexisting medical conditions
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SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Chorioamniotic membrane separation following fetal surgery.
- Selective reduction of acardiac twin by radiofrequency ablation.
- Fetal therapy for giant hepatic cysts.
- Fetal endoscopic surgery: lessons learned and trends reviewed.
- Fetal intervention for complications of monochorionic twinning.
- Spectrum of intrapartum management strategies for giant fetal cervical teratoma.
- Resolution of hydrops fetalis in congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation after prenatal steroid therapy.
- Fetal surgery for repair of myelomeningocele allows normal development of the
- Comparison of drainage techniques for biliary atresia.
- Tissue ablation using high-intensity focused ultrasound in the fetal sheep model: potential for fetal treatment.
- Fetal surgery for sacrococcygeal teratoma.
- Fetal surgery for congenital diaphragmatic hernia and pulmonary sequestration complicated by postnatal diagnosis of transposition of the great arteries.
- Fetal surgery for repair of myelomeningocele allows normal development of anal sphincter muscles in sheep.
- Laparoscopic cholecystecomy in a 16-day-old infant with chronic cholelithiasis.
- Recent advances in fetal surgery.
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