Dr. John B. Hanks M.D.
Surgeon
Uva Hospital Hospital Drive Charlottesville VA, 22908Rating
5/5
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Dr. John Hanks is a general surgeon practicing in Charlottesville, VA. Dr. Hanks specializes in abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas and often thyroid glands. General surgeons are able to deal with almost any surgical or critical care emergency, also involving the skin or soft tissue trauma. Dr. Hanks provides quality surgical service for gravely ill or injured patients and is able to respond quickly due to knowledge of various surgical procedures.
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SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Successful paratopic pancreas transplantation: a report of three cases with venous portal drainage and enteric exocrine drainage.
- Association of infiltrating lobular carcinoma with positive surgical margins after breast-conservation therapy.
- "You can go forward, then...": General Stonewall Jackson and Dr. Hunter McGuire encounter the Federals at Chancellorsville, 1863.
- The effect of clinical pathway implementation on total hospital costs for thyroidectomy and parathyroidectomy patients.
- Intraoperative ultrasound is associated with clear lumpectomy margins for palpable infiltrating ductal breast cancer.
- Pathophysiology of hyperinsulinemia following pancreas transplantation: altered pulsatile versus Basal insulin secretion and the role of specific transplant anatomy in dogs.
- A comparison of the haemostatic effect of Vivostat patient-derived fibrin sealant with oxidised cellulose (Surgicel) in multiple surgical procedures.
- Surgical alterations of the pancreas and insulin-independent glucose disposal.
- Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the obese patient.
- Pancreas transplantation. An initial experience with systemic and portal drainage of pancreatic allografts.
- Operating room efficiency and hospital capacity: factors affecting operating room use during maximum hospital census.
- Adrenalectomy in Veterans Affairs and selected university medical centers: results of the patient safety in surgery study.
- Glipizide treatment of pancreas autotransplantation: effects on alterations in glucose-insulin relationships.
- Laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Treatment of choice for symptomatic cholelithiasis.
- Incidentally identified adrenal lipoma: case report and review of related literature.
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