Mr. Leo B Twiggs M.D.
OB-GYN (Obstetrician-Gynecologist) | Gynecologic Oncology
1611 Nw 12th Ave Box 016960 Miami FL, 33136About
Dr. Leo Twiggs is an obstetrician-gynecologist practicing in Miami, FL. Dr. Twiggs specializes in women's health, particularly the female reproductive system, pregnancy and childbirth. As an obstetrician-gynecologist, or OB-GYN, Dr. Twiggs can treat a number of health issues related to the vagina, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes and breasts. Dr Twiggs can also treat women during pregnancy, labor, childbirth and the postpartum period. In this specialty, doctors focus on reproductive care from puberty through adulthood.
Education and Training
Univ of Mi Med Sch, Ann Arbor Mi 1972
Board Certification
Obstetrics and GynecologyAmerican Board of Obstetrics and GynecologyABOG
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Transforming growth factor-alpha levels in the serum and ascites of patients with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer.
- Cardiac metastasis of cloacagenic carcinoma of the vagina: a case and review of gynecologic malignancies with cardiac metastasis.
- Erosion of an intraperitoneal chemotherapy catheter resulting in an enterovaginal fistula.
- Signet ring cell lobular carcinoma of the breast presenting in a cervicovaginal smear. A case report.
- Tubal sterilization and risk of cancer of the endometrium.
- Resolution of pulmonary metastases with chemotherapy in a patient with placental site trophoblastic tumor.
- The implementation of critical pathways in gynecologic oncology in a managed care setting: a cost analysis.
- Clinical applications of molecular biologic screening for human papillomavirus: diagnostic techniques.
- Transvaginal sonography as an aid in the clinical staging of carcinoma of the cervix.
- High-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions.
- Searching for an efficient institutional review board review model: Interrelationship of trainee-investigators, funding, and initial approval.
- Home study course: spring 2004.
- Managing abnormal cytology results in pregnancy.
- Hormone replacement therapy in endometrial cancer survivors: new perspectives after the heart and estrogen progestin replacement study and the women's health initiative.
- Human papillomavirus infection of the cervix in a 14-year-old girl.
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