Dr. Robert F Elder M.D.
OB-GYN (Obstetrician-Gynecologist)
1928 Alcoa Hwy Suite 300 Knoxville TN, 37920About
Dr. Robert Elder is an obstetrician-gynecologist practicing in Knoxville, TN. Dr. Elder specializes in women's health, particularly the female reproductive system, pregnancy and childbirth. As an obstetrician-gynecologist, or OB-GYN, Dr. Elder can treat a number of health issues related to the vagina, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes and breasts. Dr Elder 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
E Tn State Univ J H Quillen Coll Of Med- Johnson City Tn 1984
Board Certification
Obstetrics and GynecologyAmerican Board of Obstetrics and GynecologyABOG
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Association of mesenchymal cells and immunoglobulins with differentiating epithelial cells.
- Abnormal expression of p27kip1 protein in levator ani muscle of aging women with pelvic floor disorders - a relationship to the cellular differentiation and degeneration.
- Estrogen, progesterone, and androgen receptor expression in levator ani muscle and fascia.
- The role of the host-tumor interface and cell hybridization in invasive cancer.
- Variability of placental expression of cyclin E low molecular weight variants.
- Expression and localization of estrogen receptor-alpha protein in normal and abnormal term placentae and stimulation of trophoblast differentiation by estradiol.
- Placental expression of estrogen receptor beta and its hormone binding variant--comparison with estrogen receptor alpha and a role for estrogen receptors in asymmetric division and differentiation of estrogen-dependent cells.
- Multiple luteinizing hormone receptor (LHR) protein variants, interspecies
- Reliability of reporting of self-monitoring of blood glucose in pregnant women.
- Thrombelastography monitoring of resistance to enoxaparin anticoagulation in thrombophilic pregnancy patients.
- Predictors of pelvic adhesions.
- Robotic-assisted sacrocolpopexy for pelvic organ prolapse.
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