Dr. Peter Alexander Argenta M.D.
OB-GYN (Obstetrician-Gynecologist) | Gynecologic Oncology
University Of Minnesota Physicians 516 Delaware Street Minneapolis MN, 55455About
Dr. Peter Argenta is an obstetrician-gynecologist practicing in Minneapolis, MN. Dr. Argenta specializes in women's health, particularly the female reproductive system, pregnancy and childbirth. As an obstetrician-gynecologist, or OB-GYN, Dr. Argenta can treat a number of health issues related to the vagina, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes and breasts. Dr Argenta can also treat women during pregnancy, labor, childbirth and the postpartum period. In this specialty, doctors focus on reproductive care from puberty through adulthood.
Board Certification
Obstetrics and GynecologyAmerican Board of Obstetrics and GynecologyABOG
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Approaching the adnexal mass in the new millennium.
- Bartholin's gland hyperplasia in a postmenopausal woman.
- Scarless human fetal skin repair is intrinsic to the fetal fibroblast and occurs in the absence of an inflammatory response.
- Brain metastasis from cervical carcinoma.
- Multimodal therapy improves survival in patients with CNS metastasis from uterine cancer: a retrospective analysis and literature review.
- Proximal-type epithelioid sarcoma vs. malignant rhabdoid tumor of the vulva: a case report, review of the literature, and an argument for consolidation.
- Prolonged obstructed labor causing a severe obstetric fistula: a case report.
- Stage II squamous cell carcinoma of the vagina in a patient with Bloom syndrome: a case report.
- Surgical site infections and supplemental perioperative oxygen in colorectal surgery patients: a systematic review.
- Steroid-converting enzymes in human ovarian carcinomas.
- Estrone sulfatase activity in patients with advanced ovarian cancer.
- Outcomes associated with different intraperitoneal chemotherapy delivery systems in advanced ovarian carcinoma: a single institution's experience.
- S100A1 expression in ovarian and endometrial endometrioid carcinomas is a prognostic indicator of relapse-free survival.
- A single institution experience using sequential multi-modality adjuvant chemotherapy and radiation in the "sandwich" method for high risk endometrial carcinoma.
- The effect of age on the tolerability of intraperitoneal chemotherapy, complication rate, and survival in patients with ovarian cancer.
Awards
- 2000 Mount Sinai School of Medicine Award Excellence in Medical School Tea
- 1997 Penn Pearls Resident Teaching Award: nominee
- 1994 Medical School Honor Performance in Experimental Medicine
- President's Advisory Council 1991 University of Michigan
- 2002-2014 Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery, Leadership council
- 2012 Mpls.St.Paul Super Doctors
- 2012-2013 Best Doctors for Women Minnesota Monthly Magazine U.S. News & World R
- CREOG best faculty teaching award - 2009 University of Minnesota July
- 2007 Best Doctors for Women Minnesota Monthly magazine. February
- 2006 100 Best Doctors for Women In Minnesota Monthly magazine. March
- 1998 Penn Pearls Resident Teaching Award: winner
- Penn Pearls Resident Teaching Award: nominee - 1997 Medical School Ho 1997 University of Michigan - 1991
Treatments
- Ovarian Cancer, Uterine Cancer, Cervical Cancer And More
Fellowships
- Gynecologic Oncology: Mount Sinai School of Medicine 2002
- Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology 1999
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