Director, Inova Breast Care Institute at Fair Oaks
General Surgery
Dr. Hernan I. Vargas, MD
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Hernan I. Vargas, MD is an expert in the field of General Surgery. He has 6 awards "America's Top Doctors for Cancer", "Top Doctors in Breast Surgery: Washington DC Area", "Top Doctors:Washington-Baltimore", "Super Doctor", "Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification" and "Fellow (FACS)". Hernan Vargas is also published. He has 72 publications published. The lastest publication: "Pancreatic hamartoma with Langerhans cell histiocytosis in a draining lymph node.' He is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- Blue dye of choice for lymphatic mapping.
- Use of preoperative Breast ultrasonography for mapping of Breast cancer extent improves resection margins during Breast conservation surgery.
- Outcomes of sonography-based management of Breast cysts.
- Diagnosis of palpable Breast masses: ultrasound-guided large core biopsy in a multidisciplinary setting.
- Intraoperative injection of technetium-99m sulfur colloid is effective in the detection of sentinel lymph nodes in Breast cancer.
- Success of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in conversion of mastectomy to Breast conservation surgery.
- Evaluation of three scoring systems predicting non sentinel node metastasis in Breast cancer patients with a positive sentinel node biopsy.
- Focused microwave thermotherapy for preoperative treatment of invasive Breast cancer: a review of clinical studies.
- Axillary recurrence after sentinel lymph node biopsy for Breast cancer.
- Immunomodulation by Imiquimod in Patients with High-Risk Primary Melanoma.
- "Ghost" publications in residency applications from international medical graduates.
- Axillary regional recurrence after sentinel lymph node biopsy for Breast cancer.
- Percutaneous excisional biopsy of palpable Breast masses under ultrasound visualization.
- Outcomes of clinical and surgical assessment of women with pathological nipple discharge.
- Outcomes of surgical and sonographic assessment of Breast masses in women younger than 30.
- Sentinel lymph node mapping of Breast cancer: a case-control study of methylene blue tracer compared to isosulfan blue.
- Focused microwave phased array thermotherapy for ablation of early-stage Breast cancer: results of thermal dose escalation.
- Success of sentinel lymph node mapping after Breast cancer ablation with focused microwave phased array thermotherapy.
- Lymphatic tumor burden negatively impacts the ability to detect the sentinel lymph node in Breast cancer.
- Overview of Breast health care guidelines for countries with limited resources.
- Implementation of a minimally invasive Breast biopsy program in countries with limited resources.
- The role of nuclear medicine in Breast cancer detection: a focus on Technetium-99 Sestamibi scintimammography.
- Immediate preoperative injection of 99m-Tc sulfur colloid is effective in the detection of Breast sentinel lymph nodes.
- Focused microwave phased array thermotherapy for primary Breast cancer.
- Management of bloody nipple discharge.
- A validation trial of subdermal injection compared with intraparenchymal injection for sentinel lymph node biopsy in Breast cancer.
- Tc-99m Sestamibi Scintimammography for the Evaluation of Breast Masses in Patients with Radiographically Dense Breasts.
- Human papillomavirus type 16 integration in cervical carcinoma in situ and in invasive cervical Cancer.
- Mapping common deleted regions on 5p15 in cervical carcinoma and their occurrence in preCancerous lesions.
- Technique of transperitoneal laparoscopic adrenalectomy.
- A pilot study evaluating the treatment of postparotidectomy sialoceles with botulinum toxin type A.
- Adrenocortical neoplasms: role of prognostic markers MIB-1, P53, and RB.
- Catecholamine concentrations in the hepatic portal system: effect of surgical stress upon portal levels.
- Ethanol injection of hepatic tumors.
- Angiotensin alteration of drug uptake in an experimental model of hepatic metastases.
- The role of prognostic markers (MiB-1, RB, and bcl-2) in the diagnosis of paraThyroid tumors.
- MR and CT imaging of ethanol-treated liver tumors in an animal model.
- Cellular origin of gastrointestinal stromal tumors: a study of 27 cases.
- Malignant hemangiopericytoma arising in neurofibromatosis: a case report with histological, immunohistochemical and ultrastructural studies.
- Melanocytic differentiation in a solid pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreas.
- Pancreatic hamartoma with Langerhans cell histiocytosis in a draining lymph node.
- Immunohistochemical determination of the estrogen receptor content of gastrointestinal adenocarcinomas.
- Contemporary indications for and early outcomes of abdominoperineal resection.
- Scintimammographic analysis of nonpalpable Breast lesions previously identified by conventional mammography.
- Initial nonoperative management for periappendiceal abscess.
- Can perforated appendicitis Be diagnosed preoperatively based on admission factors?
- A case-control study of laparoscopic versus open sigmoid colectomy for diverticulitis.
- Modified venovenous bypass technique for resection of renal and adrenal carcinomas with involvement of the inferior vena cava.
- State of the art of minimally invasive Breast biopsy: principles and practice.
- Laparoscopic appendectomy in the 1990''s.
- Antimutagenic effects of taurine in a bacterial assay system.
- Appendiceal mass: conservative therapy followed by interval laparoscopic appendectomy.
- Nonoperative management of perforated appendicitis without periappendiceal mass.
- Value of measuring hormone receptor levels of regional metastatic carcinoma of the Breast.
- The role of nuclear medicine in Breast cancer detection: functional Breast imaging.
- Fine needle aspiration cytology of Breast ductal carcinoma in situ.
- Status of scintimammography and its relationship to other detection methods for Breast cancer.
- Balloon dissection facilitated laparoscopic extraperitoneal hernioplasty.
- Perforated appendicitis: is it truly a surgical urgency?
- Patterns of recurrence in anal canal carcinoma.
- Practical use of ultrasound at a dedicated Breast center.
- Accuracy of combined clinical-mammographic-cytologic diagnosis of dominant Breast masses. A prospective study.
- Breast cancer in limited-resource countries: diagnosis and pathology.
- A forty-year experience with anal carcinoma: changing trends and impact of multimodality therapy.
- The clinical utility of Tc-99m sestamibi scintimammography in detecting multicentric Breast cancer.
- Scintimammography: the complementary role of Tc-99m sestamibi prone Breast imaging for the diagnosis of Breast carcinoma.
- Technetium-99m-sestamibi scintimammography of Breast lesions: clinical and pathological follow-up.
- Detection of axillary lymph node metastasis of Breast carcinoma with technetium-99m sestamibi scintimammography.
- Objective assessment of axillary morbidity in Breast cancer treatment.
- Diagnosis of Breast cancer in countries with limited resources.
- Outcomes following sentinel lymph node biopsy for Breast cancer.
Schools
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia Facultad De Medicina Alberto Hurtado
Cayetano Heredia University Hospital
Procedures Preformed
- Biopsy of Breast
- Breast Surgical Procedure
- Excision of Breast Tumor
- Lymph Node Biopsy or Excision
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Conditions Treated
- Breast Cancer
- Lung Cancer
- Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
- Thyroid Cancer
Doctors Specialties
- Complex General Surgical Oncology
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors for Cancer
- Top Doctors in Breast Surgery: Washington DC Area
- Top Doctors:Washington-Baltimore
- Super Doctor
- Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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Harbor - UCLA Medical Center -
Cayetano Heredia University
Hospital
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Inova Fair Oaks Hospital -
Inova Fairfax Hospital
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1285743146 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | VARGAS | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | HERNAN | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 220331756 | |
| NPPES Provider State | VA | |
| Specialty Description | General Surgery | |
| Total Claim Count | 14.0 | |
| 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] | 1285743146 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | VARGAS |
| First Name Of The Provider | HERNAN |
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