Associate Professor, Surgery, Stanford University Medical Center
General Surgery
Dr. Brendan C. Visser, MD
Brendan Visser practices General Surgery. He went to University of California San Francisco School of Medicine. University of California San Francisco School of Medicine is a top medical university. University of California San Francisco School of Medicine has a rank of 3 in research and a 3 in primary care He received 2 awards: "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification" and "Fellow (FACS)". Brendan Visser is a published doctor. He published 47 publications, including: 'An economic analysis of pancreaticoduodenectomy: should costs drive consumer decisions?' Brendan Visser is registered with Medicare.
Publications
- Laparoscopic hepatectomy in cirrhotics: safe if you adjust technique.
- An economic Analysis of pancreaticoduodenectomy: should costs drive consumer decisions?
- Severe acute pancreatitis in the community: confusion reigns.
- Biliary Cystadenoma: A Suggested "Cystamatic" Approach?
- Predictive Factors for Surgery Among Patients with Pancreatic Cysts in the Absence of High-Risk Features for Malignancy.
- Compliance With Gastric Cancer Guidelines is Associated With Improved Outcomes.
- Primary Gastric Hodgkin's Lymphoma: An Extremely Rare Entity and A Diagnostic Challenge.
- Mutation profiling of tumor DNA from plasma and tumor tissue of colorectal Cancer patients with a novel, high-sensitivity multiplexed mutation detection platform.
- Single- versus multifraction stereotactic body radiation therapy for pancreatic adenoCarcinoma: outcomes and toxicity.
- Early Vein Reconstruction and Right-to-Left Dissection for Left-Sided Pancreatic Tumors with Portal Vein Occlusion.
- Extracorporeal Pringle for laparoscopic Liver resection.
- Does the Extent of Resection Impact Survival for Duodenal Adenocarcinoma? Analysis of 1,611 Cases.
- Laparoscopic Spleen-Preserving Distal Pancreatectomy: The Technique Must Suit the Lesion.
- Getting the Dead Out: Modern Treatment Strategies for Necrotizing Pancreatitis.
- Man With Hypoechoic Lesion Abutting the Pancreas.
- Does Chronic Kidney Disease Affect Outcomes after Major Abdominal Surgery? Results from the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program.
- Locally Advanced Gastric Cancer Complicated by Mesenteric Invasion and Intestinal Malrotation.
- Postoperative Serum Amylase Predicts Pancreatic Fistula Formation Following Pancreaticoduodenectomy.
- Pancreatic Neuroendocrine tumours: hypoenhancement on arterial phase computed tomography predicts biological aggressiveness.
- Gallstone Pancreatitis: Why Not Cholecystectomy?
- Colorectal Cancer diagnostics: biomarkers, cell-free DNA, circulating tumor cells and defining heterogeneous populations by single-cell analysis.
- Seventh edition (2010) of the AJCC/UICC staging system for gastric adenoCarcinoma: is there room for improvement?
- Metabolomic-derived novel cyst Fluid biomarkers for pancreatic cysts: glucose and kynurenine.
- Complete resection of a rare intrahepatic variant of a choledochal cyst.
- Hospital readmission after a Pancreaticoduodenectomy: an emerging quality metric?
- The epidemiology of idiopathic acute pancreatitis, Analysis of the nationwide inpatient sample from 1998 to 2007.
- Preoperative embolization of replaced right hepatic artery prior to Pancreaticoduodenectomy.
- Failure to comply with NCCN guidelines for the management of pancreatic Cancer compromises outcomes.
- Abdominal mass, anemia, diabetes mellitus, and necrolytic migratory erythema.
- Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy for Pancreatic AdenoCarcinoma.
- Video-assisted thoracoscopic transdiaphragmatic liver resection for hepatocellular Carcinoma.
- Adult Intestinal Malrotation: When Things Turn the Wrong Way.
- Pancreatic endocrine Tumors with major vascular abutment, involvement, or encasement and indication for resection.
- Ruptured Biliary cystadenoma managed by angiographic embolization and interval partial hepatectomy.
- Predictors of surgical intervention for hepatocellular Carcinoma: race, socioeconomic status, and hospital type.
- A novel PRKAR1A mutation associated with primary pigmented nodular adrenocortical Disease and the Carney complex.
- Death after colectomy: it's later than we think.
- The long tube resuscitated?
- Open cholecystectomy in the laparoendoscopic era.
- Characterization of cystic Pancreatic masses: relative accuracy of CT and MRI.
- Image of the month: angiosarcoma of the Breast.
- The influence of portoenterostomy on transplantation for Biliary atresia.
- Congenital choledochal cysts in adults.
- Images in clinical medicine. Massive subcutaneous emphysema after tracheal perforation.
- Rectourethral fistulae: the perineal approach.
- Cardiac metastases and tumor embolization: A rare sequelae of primary undifferentiated Liver sarcoma.
Schools
University Of California San Francisco School Of Medicine
Procedures Preformed
- Adrenalectomy
- Appendectomy, Laparoscopic
- Appendectomy, Open
- Colectomy
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Conditions Treated
- Abdominal Pain
- Adrenal Gland Cancer
- Anal and Rectal Cancer
- Appendicitis
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Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna HMO
- Choice Plus POS II
- Benesys
- Blue Card PPO
- Advantage Preferred DirectAccess Plus PPO
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of California PPO
- Select PPO
- Access Plus Savenet
- Basic Exclusive PPO for Small Business
- Basic PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- LocalPlus
- Open Access Plus
- Commercial Insurance Company
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- Covered California - Bronze PPO
- Health Net PPO
- Individual and Family PPO
- Humana
- Medicare MCR
- Kaiser PHCS Network PPO
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- PacifiCare HMO
- United Healthcare
Awards
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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UCSF -
University of California San Francisco School of Medicine
Hospital
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VA Palo Alto Health Care System -
Stanford Health Care
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1134210628 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | VISSER | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | BRENDAN | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 943055655 | |
| NPPES Provider State | CA | |
| Specialty Description | General Surgery | |
| Total Claim Count | 330.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 1.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 58.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 17.58 |
Helpful Reviews
Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1134210628 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | VISSER |
| First Name Of The Provider | BRENDAN |
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