Associate Professor of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Radiology
Dr. Debra A. Gervais, MD
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Debra A. Gervais, MD practices Radiology. She went to Tufts University School of Medicine. Tufts University School of Medicine is ranked 49 in research and 52 in primary care medicine She has 1 awards "Boston Magazine". Debra Gervais is a published MD as well. She has 95 publications published. The latest was: Role of percutaneous abscess drainage in the management of young patients with Crohn disease. Doctor Debra A. Gervais, MD accepts Medicare payments and is registered with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- Evaluation of Quantitative PET/MR Enterography Biomarkers for Discrimination of Inflammatory Strictures from Fibrotic Strictures in Crohn Disease.
- Catecholamine Surge during Image-Guided Ablation of Adrenal Gland Metastases: Predictors, Consequences, and Recommendations for Management.
- Role of percutaneous abscess drainage in the management of young patients with Crohn disease.
- Radiologist Point-of-Care Clinical Decision Support and Adherence to Guidelines for Incidental Lung Nodules.
- Radiation exposure from CT-guided ablation of renal masses: effects on life expectancy.
- Nonvascular Interventional Procedures in an Urban General Hospital: Analysis of 2001-2010 with Comparison to the Previous Decade.
- Reduced Albumin Dosing During Large-Volume Paracentesis Is Not Associated with Adverse Clinical Outcomes.
- Prospective Trial with Optical Molecular Imaging for Percutaneous Interventions in Focal Hepatic Lesions.
- Image-Guided Ovarian Mass Biopsy: Efficacy and Safety.
- Renal radiofrequency ablation with pyeloperfusion.
- Image-guided Tumor Ablation: Standardization of Terminology and Reporting Criteria-A 10-Year Update.
- Percutaneous Ablation of the Small Renal Mass-Techniques and Outcomes.
- Computed tomography-guided percutaneous biopsy of isoattenuating focal liver lesions.
- Cryoablation versus Radiofrequency Ablation for Renal Tumor Ablation: Time to Reassess?
- Imaging-Guided Biopsy of (18)F-FDG-Avid Extrapulmonary Lesions: Do Lesion Location and Morphologic Features on CT Affect the Positive Predictive Value for Malignancy?
- Percutaneous biopsy of focal lesions of the gastrointestinal tract.
- Imaging-guided adrenal tumor ablation.
- Long-term oncologic outcomes after radiofrequency ablation for T1 renal cell carcinoma.
- Radiofrequency Ablation of Liver Tumors.
- The challenging image-guided Abdominal mass biopsy: established and emerging techniques 'if you can see it, you can biopsy it'
- Imaging after percutaneous radiofrequency ablation of hepatic tumors: Part 1, Normal findings.
- Imaging after percutaneous radiofrequency ablation of hepatic tumors: Part 2, Abnormal findings.
- Use of Fibrinolytics in Abdominal and Pleural Collections.
- Radiation Dose Reduction with Hybrid Iterative Reconstruction for Pediatric CT.
- Preexisting chronic kidney disease and renal tumor ablation: preliminary answers and persistent questions.
- Percutaneous ablation in the kidney.
- CT-guided Celiac Plexus Neurolysis: A Review of Anatomy, Indications, Technique, and Tips for Successful Treatment.
- Percutaneous tumor ablation for hepatocellular carcinoma.
- Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 27-2011. A 17-year-old boy with Abdominal pain and weight loss.
- Interventional radiology in the management of Abdominal collections after distal pancreatectomy: a retrospective review.
- Treatment of deep intramuscular and musculoskeletal abscess: experience with 99 CT-guided percutaneous catheter drainage procedures.
- Computed Tomography-guided Drainage of Mediastinal Abscesses: Clinical Experience with 23 Patients.
- CT-guided drainage of Abdominal abscesses: hydrodissection to create access routes for percutaneous drainage.
- Imaging-guided suprapubic bladder tube insertion: experience in the care of 549 patients.
- Development of a research agenda for percutaneous renal tumor ablation: proceedings from a multidisciplinary research consensus panel.
- Success of image-guided biopsy for small (≤ 3 cm) focal liver lesions in cirrhotic and noncirrhotic individuals.
- Renal mass biopsy to guide treatment decisions for small incidental renal tumors: a cost-effectiveness analysis.
- Ablation of liver metastases: current status.
- Imaging-guided percutaneous renal biopsy: rationale and approach.
- Imaging-guided percutaneous radiofrequency ablation of retroperitoneal metastatic disease in patients with gynecologic malignancies: clinical experience with eight pat...
- Management of Abdominal and pelvic abscesses that persist despite satisfactory percutaneous drainage catheter placement.
- Clinical practice. Small renal mass.
- Percutaneous CT-guided radiofrequency ablation of renal cell carcinoma: efficacy of organ displacement by injection of 5% dextrose in water into the retroperitoneum.
- Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of thyroid nodules: experience in a cohort of 944 patients.
- Percutaneous image-guided therapy of intra-Abdominal malignancy: imaging evaluation of treatment response.
- Percutaneous hepatic abscess drainage: do multiple abscesses or multiloculated abscesses preclude drainage or affect outcome?
- The IR Radlex Project: an interventional radiology lexicon--a collaborative project of the Radiological Society of North America and the Society of Interventional Radi...
- Percutaneous image-guided ablation of renal tumors.
- Society of Interventional Radiology position statement on percutaneous radiofrequency ablation for the treatment of liver tumors.
- Imaging-guided percutaneous ablation of renal cell carcinoma: a primer of how we do it.
- Thirty years' experience with balloon dilation of benign postoperative biliary strictures: long-term outcomes.
- Transvaginal drainage of pelvic fluid collections: results, expectations, and experience.
- Radiofrequency ablation versus nephron-sparing surgery for small unilateral renal cell carcinoma: cost-effectiveness analysis.
- Protecting the ureter during radiofrequency ablation of renal cell cancer: a pilot study of retrograde pyeloperfusion with cooled dextrose 5% in water.
- Neoplastic iliopsoas masses in oncology patients: CT findings.
- Complex Abdominal and pelvic abscesses: efficacy of adjunctive tissue-type plasminogen activator for drainage.
- Antibiotic prophylaxis for percutaneous radiologic gastrostomy and gastrojejunostomy insertion in outpatients with head and neck cancer.
- Imaging and percutaneous treatment of secondarily infected hepatic infarctions.
- Adjunctive intrapleural tissue plasminogen activator administered via chest tubes placed with imaging guidance: effectiveness and risk for hemorrhage.
- Feasibility and safety of infracolic fluoroscopically guided percutaneous radiologic gastrostomy.
- Transcatheter therapy for hepatic malignancy: standardization of terminology and reporting criteria.
- Inflammatory nodules mimic applicator track seeding after percutaneous ablation of renal tumors.
- Dropped gallstones and surgical clips after cholecystectomy: CT assessment.
- Thermal ablation in interventional oncology.
- Imaging-guided catheter drainage of Abdominal collections with fistulous pancreaticobiliary communication.
- How to report and compare complications of image-guided ablation therapies: comments on seeding and the use of a sole common denominator for liver tumors.
- Residual and recurrent disease following renal energy ablative therapy: a multi-institutional study.
- Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation of ovarian cancer metastasis to the liver: indications, outcomes, and role in patient management.
- Percutaneous radiofrequency thermal ablation of primary and metastatic hepatic tumors: current concepts and review of the literature.
- Image-guided percutaneous radiofrequency ablation and incidence of post-radiofrequency ablation syndrome: prospective survey.
- Acute epiploic appendagitis and its mimics.
- Radiofrequency ablation of a central renal tumor: protection of the collecting system with a retrograde cold dextrose pyeloperfusion technique.
- Percutaneous ablation of kidney tumors in nonsurgical candidates.
- Long-term followup of patients with renal cell carcinoma treated with radio frequency ablation with curative intent.
- Radiofrequency ablation of renal cell carcinoma: part 2, Lessons learned with ablation of 100 tumors.
- Radiofrequency ablation of renal cell carcinoma: part 1, Indications, results, and role in patient management over a 6-year period and ablation of 100 tumors.
- Percutaneous cholecystostomy catheter removal and incidence of clinically significant bile leaks: a clinical approach to catheter management.
- Intermediate cystic renal masses: radiology-pathology correlation.
- CT and fluoroscopically guided percutaneous embolization treatment of a pseudoAneurysm associated with pancreatitis.
- CT appearance of acute appendagitis.
- Portable Abdominal CT: analysis of quality and clinical impact in more than 100 consecutive cases.
- Enteric feeding with gastric decompression: management with separate gastric accesses.
- Acute pancreatitis: the role of imaging and interventional radiology.
- Percutaneous imaging-guided Abdominal and pelvic abscess drainage in children.
- The inaccessible or undrainable abscess: how to drain it.
- Omental infarct: an unusual CT appearance after superior mesenteric artery occlusion.
- Recurrent Abdominal and pelvic abscesses: incidence, results of repeated percutaneous drainage, and underlying causes in 956 drainages.
- The difficult biopsy: let's make it easier.
- Urine leaks and urinomas: diagnosis and imaging-guided intervention.
- Transgluteal approach for percutaneous drainage of deep pelvic abscesses: 154 cases.
- Sonography and sonographically guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the thyroid gland: indications and techniques, pearls and pitfalls.
- Interventional radiology case conferences Massachusetts General Hospital. Continuous high-output drainage of hepatic abscess 3 months after radiofrequency ablation of ...
- Incidence of malignancy in complex cystic renal masses (Bosniak category III): should imaging-guided biopsy precede surgery?
- Renal cell carcinoma: clinical experience and technical success with radio-frequency ablation of 42 tumors.
Schools
Tufts University
Maine Med Center
Massachusetts General Hospital
Procedures Preformed
- Vascular Duplex Ultrasonography and Plethysmography
Conditions Treated
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA)
- Atherosclerosis of Aorta
- Hypertensive Encephalopathy
Doctors Specialties
- Interventional Radiology
- Radiology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Boston Magazine
Education
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Massachusetts General Hospital -
Maine Medical Center -
Tufts University School of Medicine
Hospital
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Massachusetts General Hospital
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1558352450 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | GERVAIS |
| First Name Of The Provider | DEBRA |
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