Dr. Dean T Tsukayama MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
701 Park Ave O5 Minneapolis MN, 55415About
Dr. Dean Tsukayama is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Minneapolis, MN. Dr. Tsukayama specializes in infections that are difficult to diagnose or unresponsive to treatments, such as HIV or airborne infections from a foreign country. Infectious disease specialists usually work with conditions that are not treatable by a primary physician but it is important to keep contact with the primary physician in order to receive information about the patients history and for deciding which diagnostic tests are appropriate.
Education and Training
Univ of Hi John A Burns Sch of Med, Honolulu Hi 1980
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Pathophysiology of posttraumatic osteomyelitis.
- Diagnosis and management of infection after total knee arthroplasty.
- The effect of stainless steel, cobalt-chromium, titanium alloy, and titanium on the respiratory burst activity of human polymorphonuclear leukocytes.
- The evolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa during antibiotic rotation in a medical intensive care unit: the RADAR-trial.
- Horses and the risk of zoonotic infections.
- Recombinant human osteogenic protein-1 induces bone formation in a chronically infected, internally stabilized segmental defect in the rat femur.
- Evaluation of malaria screening in newly arrived refugees to the United States by microscopy and rapid antigen capture enzyme assay.
- Enterococcus faecium resistant to ampicillin and gentamicin.
- Tuberculous arthritis of the knee treated with two-stage total knee arthroplasty. A case report.
- Suppressive antibiotic therapy in chronic prosthetic joint infections.
- Serial testing of refugees for latent tuberculosis using the QuantiFERON-gold in-tube: effects of an antecedent tuberculin skin test.
- Acinetobacter baumannii is not associated with osteomyelitis in a rat model: a pilot study.
- Antibiotic management of open fractures.
- Fibrin glue-antibiotic suspension in the prevention of prosthetic graft infection.
- Tobramycin-adhesive in preventing and treating PTFE vascular graft infections.
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