Dr. Melvin Herbert Sher M.D.
Vascular Surgeon | Vascular Surgery
79 Winch St Framingham MA, 01701About
Dr. Melvin Sher is a vascular surgeon practicing in Framingham, MA. Dr. Sher specializes in disorders relating to the arterial, venous and lymphatic systems. As a vascular surgeon, Dr. Sher diagnoses and treats vascular diseases and performs vasular surgeries. Common conditions that a vascular surgeon treats are aneurysms, atherosclerosis and varicose veins. Vascular specialists might also treat trauma, venous ulcers, poor leg circulation, peripheral arterial disease and other vascular-related issues.
Education and Training
Tufts Univ Sch of Med, Boston Ma 1957
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Principles in the management of arterial injuries associated with fracture/dislocations.
- Mixed data rate and format transmission (40-Gbit/s non-return-to-zero, 40-Gbit/s duobinary, and 10-Gbit/s non-return-to-zero) by mid-link spectral inversion.
- Saturation of the Xe III 109-nm laser using traveling-wave laser-produced-plasma
- Picosecond soft-x-ray pulse length measurement by pump - probe absorption spectroscopy.
- Palliative treatment of nonresectable lung cancer by upper hemibody perfusion of chlorimine (short-acting alkylating agent): experience with five cases.
- The air splint. An alternative to the immediate postoperative prosthesis.
- Complications in the application of the intracaval umbrella technique.
- Lymphoid polyposis of the colon.
- Disobliteration of the renal artery through percutaneous Fogarty catheter technique.
- Disobliteration of the renal artery through percutaneous Fogarty catheter technique.
- Paraplegia following infrarenal aneurysmorrhaphy.
- Complications in the application of the inferior vena cava umbrella technique.
- Management of antepartum thrombophlebitis.
- Surgical correction of a lateral duodenal fistula.
- Aortoiliac steal syndrome.
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