Dr. Shishir Kumar Maithel MD
Surgical Oncologist | Surgical Oncology
101W PONCE DE LEON AVE DECATUR GA, 30030About
Dr. Shishir Maithel is a surgical oncologist practicing in New York, NY. Dr. Maithel 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
Education and Training
Univ of Chicago, Pritzker Sch of Med, Chicago Il 2000
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Feeding the critically ill patient.
- Simulated laparoscopy using a head-mounted display vs traditional video monitor: an assessment of performance and muscle fatigue.
- Iatrogenic error and truth telling: a comparison of the United States and India.
- Technical aspects of performing transduodenal ampullectomy.
- Hepatic ablation for neuroendocrine tumor metastases.
- Chemotherapy-associated liver injury: impact on surgical management of colorectal cancer liver metastases.
- Effects of perioperative red blood cell transfusion on disease recurrence and
- Clinically relevant biomarkers to select patients for targeted inhibitor therapy after resection of hepatocellular carcinoma.
- The prognostic importance of lymphovascular invasion in cholangiocarcinoma above the cystic duct: a new selection criterion for adjuvant therapy?
- Posterior lumbar vein off the retrohepatic inferior vena cava: a novel anatomical variant with surgical implications.
- Human hybrid endoscopic and laparoscopic management of mass lesions of the foregut (with video).
- Metastatic colorectal cancer: potential for cure?
- An analysis of human equilibrative nucleoside transporter-1, ribonucleoside reductase subunit M1, ribonucleoside reductase subunit M2, and excision repair cross-complementing gene-1 expression in patients with resected pancreas adenocarcinoma: implic
- Excision repair cross-complementing gene-1, ribonucleotide reductase subunit M1, ribonucleotide reductase subunit M2, and human equilibrative nucleoside transporter-1 expression and prognostic value in biliary tract malignancy.
- Lymphovascular and perineural invasion as selection criteria for adjuvant therapy in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: a multi-institution analysis.
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