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Dr. Robert Joseph Mckenna M.D.
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
8635 W 3rd St Suite 975w Los Angeles CA, 90048About
Dr. Robert Mckenna is a cardiothoracic surgeon practicing in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Mckenna specializes in surgical procedues of vital organs in the chest such as the heart, lungs, esophagus and more. As a cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Mckenna 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
Thoracic SurgeryAmerican Board of Thoracic SurgeryABTS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Patients at high risk of death after lung-volume-reduction surgery.
- The Supreme Court on abortion--a dissenting opinion.
- Lung volume reduction surgery update.
- The prognostic significance of intranodal isolated tumor cells and micrometastases in patients with non-small cell carcinoma of the lung.
- Complications after lung volume reduction surgery.
- Innovative approaches to lung volume reduction for emphysema.
- Frozen section diagnoses of small pulmonary nodules: accuracy and clinical implications.
- Video-assisted thoracic surgery upper lobe trisegmentectomy for early-stage left apical lung cancer.
- New approaches to the minimally invasive treatment of lung cancer.
- Troubleshooting video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy.
- Swyer-James (MacLeod) syndrome with placental transmogrification of the lung: a case report and review of the literature.
- Predictors of operative mortality and cardiopulmonary morbidity in the National Emphysema Treatment Trial.
- Patient and surgical factors influencing air leak after lung volume reduction surgery: lessons learned from the National Emphysema Treatment Trial.
- Surgical management of primary lung cancer.
- Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery lobectomy for stage I lung cancer.
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