Dr. Robert Cooper Shamberger MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
300 Longwood Ave Hunnewell 3 Boston MA, 02115About
Dr. Robert Shamberger practices Pediatric Surgery in Boston, MA. Dr. Shamberger 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. Shambergerdiagnoses, 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 1975
Harvard Medical School 1975
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Preanesthetic evaluation of children with anterior mediastinal masses.
- Traumatic splenic arteriovenous fistula: splenic conservation by embolization.
- Cystic neuroblastoma: emphasis on gene expression, morphology, and pathogenesis.
- Cardiopulmonary effects of anterior chest wall deformities.
- Endorectal pull-through abates gastrointestinal hemorrhage from colorectal venous malformations.
- Surgical complications after primary nephrectomy for Wilms' tumor: report from the National Wilms' Tumor Study Group.
- Staged reconstruction for middle aortic syndrome.
- Aggressive multimodal treatment of pleuropulmonary blastoma.
- Cardiac relocation and chest wall reconstruction after separation of thoracopagus conjoined twins with a single heart.
- The occurrence of Wilms tumor in horseshoe kidneys: a report from the National Wilms Tumor Study Group (NWTSG).
- Awake caudal anesthesia for inguinal surgery in one conjoined twin.
- Reoperative esophageal surgery.
- Experience with a nurse practitioner program in the surgical department of a children's hospital.
- Response to Haemophilus influenzae type B conjugate vaccine in children undergoing splenectomy.
- Reduced-size lung transplantation from adult to neonatal sheep.
Treatments
- Birth Defects
- Peripheral Artery Disease (pad)
- Vascular Disease
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