Dr. Stephen J Shochat MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 332 N Lauderdale St. Memphis TN, 38105About
Dr. Stephen Shochat practices Pediatric Surgery in Memphis, TN. Dr. Shochat treats children who have an illness, injury, or disease that requires surgery. Some of the surgical problems seen by pediatric surgeons are often quite different from those commonly seen by adult or general surgeons. Dr. Shochatdiagnoses, treats, and manages childrens surgical needs such as abnormalities of the groin in childhood and, surgical repair of birth defects, surgical care of tumors, transplantation operations, and endoscopic procedures.
Education and Training
Va Commonwealth Univ, Med Coll of Va Sch of Med, Richmond Va 1963
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
Thoracic SurgeryAmerican Board of Thoracic SurgeryABTS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Enhanced neuroblastoma transduction for an improved antitumor vaccine.
- Neuroblastoma regression and immunity induced by transgenic expression of interleukin-12.
- 3D gadolinium-enhanced MRA: evaluation of hepatic vasculature in children with hepatoblastoma.
- Nonrhabdomyosarcoma soft tissue sarcomas in children: is age at diagnosis an important variable?
- Intraureteral Wilms tumor.
- Open lung biopsy in pediatric bone marrow transplant patients.
- Is reexcision in pediatric nonrhabdomyosarcoma soft tissue sarcoma necessary after an initial unplanned resection?
- Superior mesenteric artery injury during nephrectomy for Wilms' tumor.
- Update on solid tumor management in childhood.
- Studies on the multiplication and the properties of the lactic dehydrogenase agent.
- SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERIOGRAPHY IN EXPERIMENTAL MESENTERIC VENOUS THROMBOSIS.
- Benefit of surgical resection of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in pediatric patients undergoing treatment for malignancies and immunodeficiency syndromes.
- Esophageal atresia with triple congenital tracheoesophageal fistulae.
- Effect of duration of treatment on treatment outcome for patients with clear-cell sarcoma of the kidney: a report from the National Wilms' Tumor Study Group.
- Minimally invasive surgery in pediatric cancer patients.
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