Dr. Lawrence B Colen M.D.
Plastic Surgeon | Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
6161 Kempsville Cir Suite 300 Norfolk VA, 23502Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Lawrence Colen is a cosmetic medicine and surgery specialist practicing in Norfolk, VA. Dr. Colen specializes in the enhancement of appearance. Improving aesthetic, symmetry and proportion are key goals in cosmetic surgery. Cosmetic medicine has nothing to do with these specific areas not functioning properly; therefore, this elective field solely focuses on aesthetics and anti-aging.
Education and Training
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth 1975
Board Certification
Plastic SurgeryAmerican Board of Plastic SurgeryABPS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A 5-year review of islanded distally based fasciocutaneous flaps on the lower limb.
- Isolated cremaster flap: A modified model in intravital microscopy.
- Effect of monophasic blood flow on the patency of microvascular anastomoses.
- The role of microsurgical free flaps in foot and ankle surgery.
- Effects of University of Wisconsin and lactated Ringer's solutions to ischemia-reperfusion injury in isolated cremaster flap.
- Diabetic neuropathies.
- Vascular resistance considerations in free-tissue transfer.
- Tobacco smoking and complications in elective microsurgery.
- Foot reconstruction in diabetes mellitus and peripheral vascular insufficiency.
- Indirect revascularization of the lower extremity by means of microvascular free-muscle flap--a preliminary report.
- Osteomyelitis.
- History of breast reconstruction.
- Wound healing in diabetes mellitus.
- The omentum as coverage in mediastinitis.
- The integrated approach to suppurative mediastinitis: rewiring the sternum over transposed omentum.
Treatments
- Gynecomastia
- Skin Cancer
- Sebaceous Cyst
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