Dr. Nicola M Spirtos M.D.
OB-GYN (Obstetrician-Gynecologist) | Gynecologic Oncology
3131 La Canada St Suite Number 241 Las Vegas NV, 89169About
Dr. Nicola Spirtos is an obstetrician-gynecologist practicing in Las Vegas, NV. Dr. Spirtos specializes in women's health, particularly the female reproductive system, pregnancy and childbirth. As an obstetrician-gynecologist, or OB-GYN, Dr. Spirtos can treat a number of health issues related to the vagina, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes and breasts. Dr Spirtos 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
Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine 1980
Board Certification
Obstetrics and GynecologyAmerican Board of Obstetrics and GynecologyABOG- Gynecologic Oncology
Obstetrics and GynecologyAmerican Board of Obstetrics and GynecologyABOG- 1988
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Medical Oncology- 1989
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Neoadjuvant chemotherapy for advanced ovarian cancer.
- The role of secondary cytoreductive surgery in the treatment of patients with recurrent epithelial ovarian carcinoma.
- The clinical significance of occult macroscopically positive retroperitoneal nodes in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer.
- Procedures required to accomplish complete cytoreduction of ovarian cancer: is there a correlation with "biological aggressiveness" and survival?
- What are the current surgical objectives, strategies, and technical capabilities of gynecologic oncologists treating advanced epithelial ovarian cancer?
- Chemotherapy, early surgical reassessment, and hyperfractionated abdominal radiotherapy in stage III ovarian cancer: results of a gynecologic oncology group study.
- Radiation fields in gynecologic oncology: correlation of soft tissue (surgical) to radiologic landmarks.
- The relative importance of surgical training and laboratory research in a gynecologic oncology fellowship.
- Regional blood flow occlusion during extensive pelvic procedures for ovarian cancer: a randomized trial.
- Tumor heterogeneity in ovarian cancer as demonstrated by in vitro chemoresistance assays.
- Sarcoid-like lesions associated with epithelial ovarian adenocarcinoma.
- Carbonic anhydrase IX (CA-IX) and high-risk human papillomavirus (H-HPV) as diagnostic biomarkers of cervical dysplasia/neoplasia in Japanese women with a cytologic diagnosis of atypical glandular cells (AGC): a Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) Study
- Upper abdominal cytoreduction and thoracoscopy for advanced epithelial ovarian cancer: unanswered questions and the impact on treatment.
- Defining the role of lymphadenectomy in gynaecological oncology.
- Authors' response to: Lymphadenectomy in ovarian cancer--an overrated procedure?
Treatments
- Chemotherapy, Uterine Cancer, Cervical Cancer And More
- Urinary Incontinence
- Birth Defects
- Ovarian Cancer
- Stress Incontinence
- Uterine Prolapse
- Wrinkle & Scar Improvement
Fellowships
- Stanford University SOM - GME
- Stanford University School of Medicine - Stanford, CA
- Stanford University / Stanford, CA, Oncology, Gynecologic 1985
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