Dr. Mark I Block MD
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
1150 N 35th Ave Suite 660 Hollywood FL, 33021Rating
5/5
About
Dr. Mark Block is a cardiothoracic surgeon practicing in Hollywood, FL. Dr. Block specializes in surgical procedues of vital organs in the chest such as the heart, lungs, esophagus and more. As a cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Block 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
Yale School of Medicine 1987
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Thoracic SurgeryAmerican Board of Thoracic SurgeryABTS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Fluoroscopically guided placement of the Kopans hookwire for lung nodule localization prior to thoracoscopic wedge resection.
- Effect of preoperative delay on prognosis for patients with early stage non-small cell lung cancer.
- "Drowned lung" following lobectomy and radiation therapy: a case report.
- Cholera toxin pretreatment protects against tumor necrosis factor lethality without compromising tumor response to therapy.
- Accuracy of EUS criteria and primary tumor site for identification of mediastinal lymph node metastasis from non-small-cell lung cancer.
- Primary posterior mediastinal seminoma.
- Transthoracic vs. transhiatal esophagectomy: Stage migration muddies the water.
- Transition from mediastinoscopy to endoscopic ultrasound for lung cancer staging.
- Endobronchial ultrasound for lung cancer staging: how many stations should be sampled?
- Invasive mediastinal staging: endobronchial ultrasound, endoscopic ultrasound, and mediastinoscopy.
- Comparison of Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery and Robotic Approaches for Clinical Stage I and Stage II Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Using The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database.
- Coronary artery bypass grafting after a bilateral lung volume reduction operation.
- Improvement in staging of esophageal cancer with the addition of positron emission tomography.
Treatments
- Lung Cancer
- Esophageal Cancer
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