Dr. Benjamin D. Kozower MD
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
The Cancer Center Uva Hospital W Hospital Drive, 4th Charlottesville VA, 22908About
Dr. Benjamin Kozower is a cardiothoracic surgeon practicing in Charlottesville, VA. Dr. Kozower specializes in surgical procedues of vital organs in the chest such as the heart, lungs, esophagus and more. As a cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Kozower typically treats conditions like heart disease and lung disease. This class of surgeon can also include cardiac surgeons, cardiovascular surgeons, congenital heart surgeons and general thoracic surgeons.
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Thoracic SurgeryAmerican Board of Thoracic SurgeryABTS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Identification of small lung nodules: technique of radiotracer-guided thoracoscopic biopsy.
- Radiotracer-guided thoracoscopic resection is a cost-effective technique for the evaluation of subcentimeter pulmonary nodules.
- Fatal Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in a lung transplant recipient.
- Correlations between selected tumor markers and fluorodeoxyglucose maximal standardized uptake values in esophageal cancer.
- A bilobed thoracic outlet mass: options for resection.
- The relationship between hospital lung cancer resection volume and patient mortality risk.
- A diagnostic consideration for all ages: pseudoachalasia in a 22-year-old male.
- Hospital esophageal cancer resection volume does not predict patient mortality risk.
- The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database: establishing generalizability to national lung cancer resection outcomes.
- Pathologic lymph node ratio is a predictor of survival in esophageal cancer.
- Surgical spectrum in the management of empyemas.
- Lung cancer resection volume: is procedure volume really an indicator of quality?
- Differences in reported esophageal cancer resection outcomes between national clinical and administrative databases.
- Phase I trial of induction histone deacetylase and proteasome inhibition followed by surgery in non-small-cell lung cancer.
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