Dr. Constantine Petros Karakousis MD, PHD
Surgical Oncologist | Surgical Oncology
100 High St Dept Of Surgery Buffalo NY, 14203Rating
5/5
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Dr. Constantine Karakousis is a surgical oncologist practicing in Buffalo, NY. Dr. Karakousis 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
University Athens-Faculty Medical, School Of Health & Science MD
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Cutaneous lymphatic drainage patterns in patients with grossly involved nodal basins.
- Repair after radical groin dissection.
- Treatment and local control of primary extremity soft tissue sarcomas.
- Posterior compartment resection of the thigh for soft-tissue sarcomas.
- Adjuvant hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy for gastrointestinal malignancies with removable hepatoarterial catheter.
- Validation of the accuracy of intraoperative lymphatic mapping and sentinel lymphadenectomy for early-stage melanoma: a multicenter trial. Multicenter Selective Lymphadenectomy Trial Group.
- Desmoid tumour: a pleomorphic lesion.
- Thoracoabdominal incisions and resection of upper retroperitoneal sarcomas.
- Sentinel node biopsy before and after wide excision of the primary melanoma.
- Primary malignant melanoma of the esophagus: report of two cases and review of the literature.
- Intravenous leiomyomatosis with cardiac extension: tumor thrombectomy through an abdominal approach.
- Risk of basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma in persons with prior cutaneous melanoma.
- The platysma muscle in neck dissection.
- Abdominoinguinal incision and other incisions in the resection of pelvic tumors.
- Long-term prognostic significance of HSP-70, c-myc and HLA-DR expression in patients with malignant melanoma.
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