Assistant Professor, Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine
General Surgery
Dr. Giorgos C. Karakousis, MD
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Giorgos Karakousis is an expert in the field of General Surgery. He attended Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He over the years received 2 awards: "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification" and "Fellow". Dr. Giorgos C. Karakousis is a published MD as well. He has 59 publications published. The latest was: The beta protein of phage lambda binds preferentially to an intermediate in DNA renaturation. He accepts Medicare payments and is listed with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- Efficacy of adjuvant chemotherapy for small bowel adenocarcinoma: A propensity score-matched Analysis.
- Implications of Lymph Node Staging on Selection of Adjuvant Therapy for Gastric Cancer in the United States: A Propensity Score-matched Analysis.
- Minimally invasive gastrectomy for gastric adenocarcinoma in the United States: Utilization and short-term oncologic outcomes.
- Neoadjuvant therapy for gastric Cancer: current evidence and future directions.
- Adjuvant Radiation Therapy Treatment Time Impacts Overall Survival in Gastric Cancer.
- Current Staging and Prognostic Factors in Melanoma.
- Clinicopathologic characteristics of incidentally identified pheochromocytoma.
- BRAF Inhibition Stimulates Melanoma-Associated Macrophages to Drive Tumor Growth.
- Long-term blood pressure control in patients undergoing Adrenalectomy for primary hyperaldosteronism.
- A risk prediction model for mortality in the moribund general surgical patient.
- Outcomes after resection of leiomyosarcomas of the inferior vena cava: A pooled data Analysis of 377 cases.
- The rise in metastasectomy across Cancer types over the past decade.
- Postdischarge occurrences after coloRectal surgery happen early and are associated with dramatically increased rates of readmission.
- What Can We Learn from Intraoperative ParaThyroid Hormone Levels that Do Not Drop Appropriately?
- Resection of primary leiomyoSarcoma of the inferior vena cava (IVC) with reconstruction: A case series and review of the literature.
- Primary hyperparaThyroidism with negative imaging: a significant clinical problem.
- Implications of inadequate lymph node staging in resectable gastric Cancer: A contemporary analysis using the National Cancer Data Base.
- ParaThyroidectomy in dialysis patients.
- Hernia repair in the presence of ascites.
- Morbidity and mortality after total gastrectomy for gastric malignancy using the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database.
- Surgical Palliation for Pancreatic Malignancy: Practice Patterns and Predictors of Morbidity and Mortality.
- Early discharge and readmission after coloRectal resection.
- Preoperative radiation for retroperitoneal Sarcoma is not associated with increased early postoperative morbidity.
- Hypoxia Induces Phenotypic Plasticity and Therapy Resistance in Melanoma via the Tyrosine Kinase Receptors ROR1 and ROR2.
- Prognosis of Patients with Melanoma and Microsatellitosis Undergoing Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy.
- Clark Level Risk Stratifies Patients with Mitogenic Thin Melanomas for Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy.
- Concurrent MEK2 Mutation and BRAF Amplification Confer Resistance to BRAF and MEK Inhibitors in Melanoma.
- Morbidity and Mortality of CytoreDuction with Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy: Outcomes from the ACS NSQIP Database.
- Racial disparities in the use of outpatient mastectomy.
- The effect of colorectal Cancer screening mandates on access to care and clinical outcomes: A retrospective study of patients undergoing operations of the colon and re...
- Local Immune Response Predicts Survival in Patients with Thick (T4) Melanomas.
- Circulating melanoma cells as a predictive biomarker.
- Sartorius transposition during inguinal lymphadenectomy for melanoma.
- Lymphatic Invasion Predicts Aggressive Behavior in Melanocytic Tumors of Uncertain Malignant Potential (MELTUMP).
- Surgery for metastatic Neuroendocrine tumors with occult primaries.
- Trends in immediate breast reconstruction across insurance groups after enactment of breast Cancer legislation.
- Prognostic significance of drainage to pelvic nodes at sentinel lymph node mapping in patients with extremity melanoma.
- Ectopic functioning adrenocortical oncocytic adenoma (oncocytoma) with myelolipoma causing virilization.
- Racial disparities in immediate breast reconstruction after mastectomy: impact of state and federal health policy changes.
- Incidence of venous thromboembolism in patients undergoing surgical treatment for malignancy by type of neoplasm: An Analysis of ACS-NSQIP data from 2005 to 2010.
- Tertiary HyperparaThyroidism in Kidney Transplant Recipients: Characteristics of Patients Selected for Different Treatment Strategies.
- Does the presence of thyroid Cancer increase the risk of venous thromboembolism in patients undergoing thyroidectomy?
- Regional recurrence after lymphadenectomy for clinically evident lymph node metastases from papillary thyroid Cancer: a cohort study.
- Laparoscopic Versus Open Gastric Resections for Primary GastroIntestinal Stromal Tumors (GISTs): A Size-Matched Comparison.
- Interpretation of intra-operative PTH changes in patients with multi-Glandular primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT).
- Regional nodal metastatic Disease is the strongest predictor of survival in patients with thin vertical growth phase melanomas: a case for SLN Staging biopsy in these ...
- Predictors of regional nodal Disease in patients with thin melanomas.
- Mitotic rate as a predictor of sentinel lymph node positivity in patients with thin melanomas.
- Cardiopulmonary bypass for bilateral sequential Lung transplantation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease without adverse effect on Lung function or ...
- Wind, water, wound, walk--do the data deLiver the dictum?
- A novel approach for the detection and genetic Analysis of live melanoma circulating tumor cells.
- Lymphatic invasion as a prognostic biomarker in primary cutaneous melanoma.
- The beta protein of phage lambda binds preferentially to an intermediate in DNA renaturation.
- The beta protein of phage lambda promotes strand exchange.
- Interferon-beta gene therapy improves survival in an immunocompetent mouse model of carcinomatosis.
- Randomized clinical trials in melanoma.
- The case for selective use of pre-operative chemotherapy for hepatic coloRectal metastases: more is not always better.
- Lymphatic invasion revealed by multispectral imaging is common in primary melanomas and associates with prognosis.
Schools
Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania
Procedures Preformed
- Adrenalectomy
- Colectomy
- Destruction or Excision of Vaginal Lesions
- Dressing and-or Debridement of Wound, Infection, or Burn (incl. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy)
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Conditions Treated
- Abdominal Pain
- Adrenal Gland Cancer
- Anal and Rectal Cancer
- Atelectasis
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Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Fellow
Education
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University of Pennsylvania Health System -
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Hospital
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Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania -
Pennsylvania Hospital -
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1952458937 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | KARAKOUSIS | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | GIORGOS | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 191044206 | |
| NPPES Provider State | PA | |
| Specialty Description | Surgical Oncology | |
| Total Claim Count | 12.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1952458937 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | KARAKOUSIS |
| First Name Of The Provider | GIORGOS |
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