Professor, Surgery, Tufts Medical Center

General Surgery

Lelan Sillin is an expert in the field of General Surgery. He attended Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals. He received awards:"Fellow". Lelan Sillin is a published MD. He published 35 publications, including: 'Postoperative ileus: a colonic problem?'

Publications

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• Ethical considerations regarding the implementation of new technologies and techniques in surgery.
• Evaluation of advanced laparoscopic skills tasks for validity evidence.
• Gastrectomy as a remedial operation for failed fundoplication.
• Cognitive task analysis for teaching technical skills in an inanimate surgical skills laboratory.
• Surgical management of hypertensive lower esophageal sphincter with dysphagia or chest Pain.
• Increasing esophageal length: a comparison of laparoscopic versus transthoracic esophageal mobilization with and without vagal trunk division in pigs.
• Absence of gastroesophageal reflux Disease in a majority of patients taking acid suppression medications after Nissen fundoplication.
• Electromotor feeding responses of primate ileum and colon.
• A quarter Wheatstone bridge strain gage force transducer for recording gut motility.
• Postoperative ileus: a colonic problem?
• Changes in self-perceived abilities among male and female medical students after the first year of clinical training.
• Predictive factors of Barrett esophagus: multivariate analysis of 502 patients with gastroesophageal reflux Disease.
• Laparoscopic repair of large type III Hiatal hernia: objective followup reveals high recurrence rate.
• Current concepts in the management of paraesophageal Hiatal hernia.
• Control of postprandial Intestinal motility.
• Oral erythromycin improves gastroIntestinal motility and transit after subtotal but not total gastrectomy for cancer.
• Effect of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt on Secondary hypersplenism.
• Imaging of a giant Meckel's diverticulum in a young adult.
• Migrating myoelectric complex and jejunal slow-wave propagation after Roux gastrectomy in dogs.
• Gastric stasis of solids after Roux gastrectomy: is the jejunal transection important?
• Reduction in tissue blood flow in J-shaped pelvic ileal reservoirs.
• The gastrocolic response: is it GIP?
• Chronic electrical activity of cat intestine.
• Ninety-five percent duodenectomy. An experimental study.
• Side-to-side and end-to-side anastomosis in partial gastrectomy and hemicolectomy using the EEA stapler.
• Consequences of intraperitoneal bile: bile ascites versus bile peritonitis.
• Changes in intercellular electrical coupling of smooth muscle accompanying atrophy and hypertrophy.
• Postprandial changes in Intestinal slow-wave propagation reflect a decrease in cell coupling.
• Gastric emptying of solids after Roux-en-Y gastrectomy: is extragastric vagal innervation important?
• Pancreatic complications following cardiopulmonary bypass. Factors influencing mortality.
• Effective surgical therapy of esophagitis. Experience with Belsey, Hill, and Nissen operations.
• Filtration characteristics of dacron wool (Swank) blood transfusion filters.
• Principles of privileging and credentialing for endoscopy and colonoscopy.
• Development and validation of a comprehensive program of education and assessment of the basic fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery.

Schools

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• Tulane University of Louisiana

• Med College Of Wisconsin

Procedures Preformed

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• Appendectomy, Laparoscopic
• Dressing and-or Debridement of Wound, Infection, or Burn (incl. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy)
• Excision of Stomach Tumor
• Excision, Shaving, or Destruction of Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue (incl. Mohs Micrographic Surgery), Tissue Transfer
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Conditions Treated

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• Abdominal Pain
• Appendicitis
• Atelectasis
• Biliary Atresia
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Doctors Specialties

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• General Surgery

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Fellow

Education

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• University of Southern California
• Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals
• Tulane University
• Tulane University School of Medicine

Hospital

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• Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington
• Tufts Medical Center

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