David Fedor

Gundersen Lutheran · Department of Surgery

Axillary lymph node status guides both treatment course and prognosis in patients with breast cancer. When patients receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) are excluded, NCCN guidelines call for a sentinel node (SN) biopsy in clinically node negative stage I and II patients, followed by complete axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) only if there...

This compares outcome measures of current pectus excavatum (PEx) treatments, namely the Nuss and Ravitch procedures, in pediatric and adult patients. Original investigations that stratified PEx patients based on current treatment and age (pediatric = 0-21; adult 17-99) were considered for inclusion. Outcome measures were: operation duration, analge...

Purpose: To date, few large-scale original studies have focused specifically on local recurrence following curative lung cancer surgery. This review seeks to consolidate and analyze data from these studies regarding local recurrence incidence, risk factors, salvage treatments, and outcomes to increase awareness in the Oncology community and to spa...

Pectus excavatum is the most common congenital abnormality of the chest wall. It may lead to adverse psychosocial development and preoccupation with a negative body image. The Nuss procedure is a minimally invasive approach for improving these patients' body image. The most dangerous complication is cardiac perforation from the insertion of the int...