Professor, Surgery, University of Minnesota Medical School
Colon & Rectal Surgery
Dr. David A. Rothenberger, MD
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David A. Rothenberger, MD practices Colon & Rectal Surgery. He graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine. Tufts University School of Medicine has a rank of 49 in research and a 52 in primary care He over the years received 4 awards: "Fellow (FACS)", "Top MD", "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare" and "Super Doctor". David A. Rothenberger is a published doctor. He published 101 publications, including: 'Surgical management of left colon obstruction: the University of Minnesota experience.'
Publications
- Does patient rurality predict quality colon Cancer care?: a population-based study.
- Early removal of urinary catheters after rectal surgery is associated with increased urinary retention.
- Pursestring closure of the stoma site leads to fewer wound infections: results from a multicenter randomized controlled trial.
- Optimizing rectal cancer management: Analysis of current evidence.
- Operative Report Teaching and Synoptic Operative Reports: A National Survey of Surgical Program Directors.
- Continuous intraoperative temperature measurement and surgical site infection risk: Analysis of anesthesia information system data in 1008 colorectal procedures.
- Readmission after Colorectal surgery is related to preoperative clinical conditions and major complications.
- CEA - a predictor for pathologic complete response after neoadjuvant therapy for rectal Cancer.
- Are right-sided colectomy outcomes different from left-sided colectomy outcomes?: study of patients with colon Cancer in the ACS NSQIP database.
- Percutaneous drainage of colonic diverticular abscess: is colon resection necessary?
- Abdominal Wall Thickness: Is It Associated with Superficial and Deep Incisional Surgical Site Infection after Colorectal Surgery?
- The evolving role of laparoscopy in colonic diverticular disease: a systematic review.
- Does Enrollment in Cancer Trials Improve Survival?
- Colorectal surgeons teaching general surgery residents: current challenges and opportunities.
- Adjuvant chemotherapy for stage III colon Cancer in the oldest old: Results beyond clinical guidelines.
- Duodenal-pleural fistula in Crohn's disease: Successful long-term medical management.
- Colonic volvulus: presentation and management in metropolitan Minnesota, United States.
- Operative outcomes beyond 30-day mortality: Colorectal cancer surgery in oldest old.
- Clarity, confusion, or conundrum: comment on "Trends in diverticulitis management in the United States from 2002 to 2007".
- Wound infection following stoma takedown: primary skin closure versus subcuticular purse-string suture.
- Impaired rectal sensation at Anal manometry is associated with Anal incontinence one year after primary sphincter repair in primiparous women.
- Assessment of ACS NSQIP's predictive ability for adverse events after major Cancer surgery.
- Body mass index and major Cancer surgery outcomes: lack of association or need for alternative measurements of obesity?
- Surgical oncology trials and surgeons in the real world!
- Major Cancer surgery in the elderly: results from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program.
- Career decisions and the structure of training: an American Board Of Colon and Rectal Surgery survey of Colorectal residents.
- Developing a research agenda for the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons: results of a delphi approach.
- Metabolomic characterization of human rectal adenocarcinoma with intact tissue magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
- The effect of a hyaluronan-carboxymethylcellulose membrane vs. polyglactin 910 mesh on intra-abdominal tumor formation in mice.
- Fistula-associated Anal adenocarcinoma: good results with aggressive therapy.
- Antegrade irrigations of a surgically reconstructed Hartmann's pouch to treat intractable diversion colitis.
- The status of radical proctectomy and sphincter-sparing surgery in the United States.
- Increasing prevalence and severity of Clostridium difficile colitis in hospitalized patients in the United States.
- Population-based Analyses of lymph node metastases in colorectal cancer.
- Career options in colon and rectal surgery.
- Surgical treatment of colon Cancer.
- Endorectal ultrasound in the management of patients with malignant rectal polyps.
- Local excision: some reality testing.
- Increased risk of rectal Cancer after prostate radiation: a population-based study.
- Primary perineal wound closure after preoperative radiotherapy and abdominoperineal resection has a high incidence of wound failure.
- Association between fecal hydrogen sulfide production and pouchitis.
- Lymph node evaluation in Colorectal cancer patients: a population-based study.
- Impact of preoperative radiation for rectal cancer on subsequent lymph node evaluation: a population-based Analysis.
- Are we overtreating some patients with rectal Cancer?
- Minnesota Colorectal Cancer Initiative: successful development and implementation of a community-based Colorectal cancer registry.
- Quantification of colorectal cancer micrometastases in lymph nodes by nested and real-time reverse transcriptase-PCR Analysis for carcinoembryonic antigen.
- Endorectal ultrasound in the follow-up of rectal Cancer patients treated by local excision or radical surgery.
- "If you can keep your head.": clinical decision making in the age of evidence-based medicine.
- Palliative therapy of rectal Cancer. Overview: epidemiology, indications, goals, extent, and nature of work-up.
- Measuring fecal incontinence.
- Evidence of a preferred molecular pathway in patients with synchronous Colorectal cancer.
- Artificial bowel sphincter: long-term experience at a single institution.
- A pathologic complete response to preoperative chemoradiation is associated with lower local recurrence and improved survival in rectal Cancer patients treated by meso...
- Surgical therapy for anorectal melanoma.
- Salvage radical surgery after failed local excision for early rectal Cancer.
- Accuracy of endorectal ultrasonography in preoperative staging of rectal tumors.
- Surgery for complicated diverticulitis.
- Relevant clinical information and tumor markers.
- The Hartmann procedure. First choice or last resort in diverticular disease?
- Carcinoid tumor: an extremely unusual presacral lesion. Report of a case.
- The presence of insulin-degrading enzyme in human ileal and colonic mucosal cells.
- Artificial Anal sphincter.
- Immunohistochemical localization of insulin-degrading enzyme along the rat intestine, in the human colon adenocarcinoma cell line (Caco-2), and in human ileum.
- Rectovaginal fistulas. Therapeutic options.
- Mission impossible? Respond to the challenge.
- Anal sphincter integrity and function influences outcome in rectovaginal fistula repair.
- Prognostic significance of tumor markers in Colorectal cancer patients: DNA index, S-phase fraction, p53 expression, and Ki-67 index.
- Surgical management of left colon obstruction: the University of Minnesota experience.
- Malignant tumors of the Anal cAnal: the spectrum of disease, treatment, and outcomes.
- Colorectal cancer in inflammatory bowel disease: a continuing problem.
- Local excision of rectal Cancer without adjuvant therapy: a word of caution.
- Molecular prognostic factors in rectal Cancer treated by radiation and surgery.
- Is local excision adequate therapy for early rectal Cancer?
- Patient satisfaction after surgical treatment for fistula-in-ano.
- Colorectal cancer. Preface.
- Role of local excision in the treatment of rectal Cancer.
- Brachial artery disruption following closed elbow dislocation.
- The mortality associated with pelvic fractures.
- Major vascular injuries Secondary to pelvic fractures: an unsolved clinical problem.
- Diagnostic peritoneal lavage for blunt trauma in pregnant women.
- Ileal pouch-Anal anastomosis: state of the art.
- A prospective evaluation of distal margins in carcinoma of the rectum.
- Treatment of rectal prolapse in the elderly by perineal rectosigmoidectomy.
- Ileal pouch-Anal anastomosis. Patterns of failure.
- Symptomatic Hemorrhoids: current incidence and complications of operative therapy.
- Prognostic value of positive lymph nodes in rectal Cancer.
- Abdominoperineal resection for adenocarcinoma of the low rectum.
- A predictive model for distant metastases in rectal Cancer using DNA ploidy studies.
- Long-term functional results of colon resection and rectopexy for overt rectal prolapse.
- Cost-effective management of colon and rectal Cancer.
- Seton treatment of high Anal fistulae.
- Recurrence of Crohn''s disease after resection.
- Incontinence and rectal prolapse: a prospective manometric study.
- Fistula-in-ano in Crohn's disease. Results of aggressive surgical treatment.
- Sugar in the reduction of incarcerated prolapsed bowel. Report of two cases.
- Preoperative bowel preparation. A survey of colon and rectal surgeons.
- The ileoAnal reservoir.
- Endorectal ultrasound in the preoperative staging of rectal tumors. A learning experience.
- Surgical approaches to Anal incontinence.
- Rectal compliance: a critical reappraisal.
Schools
Tufts University School Of Medicine
St Paul Ramsey Med Center
University Of Minnesota
Procedures Preformed
- Colectomy
- Colonoscopy, Proctosigmoidoscopy, and Sigmoidoscopy
- Enterostomy (Laparoscopic or Open)
Conditions Treated
- Anal Fissure
- Colorectal Cancer
- Hemorrhoids
- Secondary Malignancies
Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FACS)
- Top MD
- Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare
- Super Doctor
Education
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University of Minnesota at Fairview -
Tufts University School of Medicine
Hospital
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University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview
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