Assistant Professor of Surgery, UCSF
General Surgery
Dr. Eric K. Nakakura, MD
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Eric Nakakura is an expert in the field of General Surgery. He studied medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. Stanford University School of Medicine is a top medical college. Stanford University School of Medicine is ranked 2/25 in Research/PrimaryCare. He has 5 awards "America's Top Doctors", "America's Top Doctors for Cancer", "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Super Doctor" and "Fellow (FACS)". Eric Nakakura is also a published doctor. He has 36 paper published. The most recent paper is: Long-term survival of solid organ allografts by brief anti-lymphocyte function-associated antigen-1 monoclonal antibody monotherapy. He is registered with Medicare.
Publications
- Correcting for respiratory motion in liver PET/MRI: preliminary evaluation of the utility of bellows and navigated hepatoBiliary phase imaging.
- Bone metastases and skeletal-related events from Neuroendocrine tumors.
- Simultaneous (68)Ga-DOTA-TOC PET/MRI with gadoxetate disodium in patients with Neuroendocrine tumor.
- A patient with cholangiocarcinoma demonstrating pathologic complete response to chemotherapy: exploring the role of neoadjuvant therapy in biliary tract Cancer.
- Neuroendocrine Tumors of Unknown Primary: Is the Primary Site Really Not Known?
- Time to Put Another Surgical Dogma to Sleep?
- Home, Sweet Home, After Surgery.
- Incomplete inhibition of phosphorylation of 4E-BP1 as a mechanism of primary resistance to ATP-competitive mTOR inhibitors.
- Management of well-differentiated gastroIntestinal neuroendocrine tumors metastatic to the liver.
- Can CT features differentiate between inferior vena cava leiomyosarcomas and primary retroperitoneal masses?
- Lymph Node Sampling Rates and Predictors of Nodal Metastasis in Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor Resections: The UCSF Experience With 149 Patients.
- Pseudomyxoma Peritonei: More Questions Than Answers.
- Complete and safe resection of challenging retroperitoneal Tumors: anticipation of multi-organ and major vascular resection and use of adjunct procedures.
- Unique patterns of metastases in common and rare types of malignancy.
- Lack of NKX2.2 expression in bronchopulmonary typical carcinoid tumors: implications for patients with Neuroendocrine tumor metastases and unknown primary site.
- Arterial embolization for the management of gastrointestinal hemorrhage from metastatic renal cell Carcinoma.
- Identification of unknown primary tumors in patients with neuroendocrine Liver metastases.
- MicroRNA dynamics in the stages of tumorigenesis correlate with hallmark capabilities of Cancer.
- Compound muscle action potentials and spontaneous electromyography can be used to identify and protect the femoral nerve during resection of large retroperitoneal Tumors.
- Immunostaining for peroxisome proliferator gamma distinguishes dedifferentiated liposarcoma from other retroperitoneal sarcomas.
- Pancreatic adenoCarcinoma. Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology.
- Systemic and regional nonsurgical therapy--what is the optimal strategy for metastatic neuroendocrine Cancer?
- Islet cell Carcinoma: neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas and periampullary region.
- Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 activity controls cell motility and metastatic potential of prostate Cancer cells.
- Regulation of neuroendocrine differentiation in gastroIntestinal carcinoid tumor cells by notch signaling.
- Notch signaling induces rapid degradation of achaete-scute homolog 1.
- Mitogen-inducible gene-6 expression correlates with survival and is an independent predictor of recurrence in BRAF(V600E) positive papillary thyroid Cancers.
- Mammalian Scratch participates in neuronal differentiation in P19 embryonal Carcinoma cells.
- Mammalian Scratch: a neural-specific Snail family transcriptional repressor.
- Long-term survival of solid organ allografts by brief anti-lymphocyte function-associated antigen-1 monoclonal antibody monotherapy.
- A non-lymphocyte-depleting monoclonal antibody to the adhesion molecule LFA-1 (CD11a) prevents sensitization to alloantigens and effectively prolongs the survival of h...
- Potent and effective prolongation by anti-LFA-1 monoclonal antibody monotherapy of non-primarily vascularized heart allograft survival in mice without T cell depletion.
- Palliative care for patients with advanced pancreatic and biliary Cancers.
- Homeodomain transcription factor NKX2.2 functions in immature cells to control enteroendocrine differentiation and is expressed in gastroIntestinal neuroendocrine tumors.
- The ETS oncogene family transcription factor FEV identifies serotonin-producing cells in normal and neoplastic small intestine.
Schools
Stanford University 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
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- America's Top Doctors for Cancer
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Super Doctor
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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Johns Hopkins University -
Stanford University School of Medicine
Hospital
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San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center -
UCSF Medical Center
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1033173943 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | NAKAKURA | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | ERIC | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 941153010 | |
| NPPES Provider State | CA | |
| Specialty Description | General Surgery | |
| Total Claim Count | 88.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 1.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 15.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 17.05 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1033173943 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | NAKAKURA |
| First Name Of The Provider | ERIC |
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