Dr. Mark Lawrence Silen MD, MBA
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
2552 Nw Mildred St Portland OR, 97210About
Dr. Mark Silen practices Pediatric Surgery in Portland, OR. Dr. Silen 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. Silendiagnoses, 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
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1980
Harvard Medical School 1980
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Reoperation for Hirschsprung's disease.
- Spontaneous pneumothorax from apical pulmonary blebs.
- A state-wide evaluation of appendectomy in children.
- Minimally invasive management of the prenatally torsed ovarian cyst.
- Solitary arteriovenous malformation of the small intestine.
- Biliary atresia.
- Gastrointestinal peptides and cancer.
- Response.
- Stephen F. Lowry: handprints in our hearts.
- Interleukin-1 alpha and tumor necrosis factor alpha cause placental injury in the rat.
- Cachectin/tumor necrosis factor production by fetal and newborn rat hepatic macrophages.
- Cachectin/tumor necrosis factor-alpha alters red blood cell kinetics and induces anemia in vivo.
- The effect of interleukin-1 alpha and tumor necrosis factor alpha on the secretion of human chorionic gonadotropin by JAR human choriocarcinoma cells.
- Management of thoracic duct injury associated with fracture-dislocation of the spine following blunt trauma.
- Thoracoscopic debridement of loculated empyema thoracis in children.
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