Dr. John Richard Benfield M.D.
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
11611 Terryhill Place Los Angeles CA, 90049About
Dr. John Benfield is a cardiothoracic surgeon practicing in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Benfield specializes in surgical procedues of vital organs in the chest such as the heart, lungs, esophagus and more. As a cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Benfield 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
U Of Chgo Div Of Bio Sci Pritzker Sch Of Med 1955
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Thoracic SurgeryAmerican Board of Thoracic SurgeryABTS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Surgical education in changing times.
- The history of lung transplantation.
- The language of science.
- Advances in the treatment of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis.
- Thymectomy in the treatment of ocular myasthenia gravis.
- Myelolipoma of the adrenal gland. Angiographic findings and review of the literature.
- Section I: colostomy.
- Data favoring biopsy of the breast under local anesthesia.
- Esophageal disruption from blunt and penetrating external trauma.
- The reversibility of chronic atelectasis.
- Altered hemodynamics in the pulmonary circulation following reaeration of an atelectatic lung.
- Dogs surviving with a reimplanted lung. Bronchospirometric and pulmonary artery pressure studies.
- Pulmonary compliance following re-aeration of the chronically atelectatic lung.
- ILEOSTOMY FACEPLATE CUSTOM-FITTED BY THE SURGEON.
- Resection of multifocal non-small cell lung cancer when the bronchioloalveolar subtype is involved.
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