Physician

General Surgery

Robert Ikard practices General Surgery. He attended Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He received awards:"Fellow (FACS)". Robert Ikard is also a published physician. He has 47 paper published. The most recent paper is: Onychocryptosis.

Publications

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• Postoperative Morbidity and Mortality among Veterans Health Administration Patients Undergoing Surgical Resection for Large Bowel Polyps (Bowel Resection for Polyps).
• Management of senescent gynecomastia in the Veterans Health Administration.
• Dr Gross's assistants in The Gross Clinic.
• Methods and complications of anterior exposure of the thoracic and lumbar spine.
• Recurrent appendicitis: a valid disease.
• There is no current indication for laparoscopic adhesiolysis to treat abdominal pain.
• Gastric secretogogues in postprandial thoracic duct lymph.
• More on practice problems.
• Surgical operation on James K. Polk by Ephraim McDowell, or the search for Polk''s gallstone.
• Onychocryptosis.
• Diagnosis of Meckel's diverticulum by computerized tomography.
• Thoracoscopic exposure of intervertebral discs.
• MidEsophageal web in adults.
• Pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis following intestinal bypass.
• Mammary tuberculosis: a rare modern disease.
• Treatment of myasthenia gravis by thymectomy.
• Gastric stapling for morbid obesity.
• Mediastinoscopy: a personal series and literature review.
• Subcutaneous port or what is in a name?
• Umbilical stump keloid.
• Gallstones, cholecystitis and diabetes.
• Laparoscopic versus open appendectomy.
• Persistent hepatic hydrothorax after peritoneojugular shunt.
• IMPACT, a "special interest group".
• Neutropenic typhlitis in adults.
• A technique for tying the short end of a continuous suture.
• Posttraumatic Esophageal diverticulum.
• The Nashville Academy of Medicine "Yankee Gunboat" Gavel.
• Pneumomediastinum after dental extraction.
• Lower limb venous dynamics in pregnant women.
• Accidental excision of the superior mesenteric artery. Technical and physiological considerations.
• Bronchogenic cyst causing repeated left lung atelectasis in an adult.
• Iatrogenic chylous ascites.
• Gastropericardial fistula and pericardial abscess: unusual complications of subphrenic abscess following Nissen fundoplication.
• The current status of mediastinoscopy.
• Hemopneumothorax: complication of tunneler use in axillofemoral bypass.
• The Nashville experience with scalene node biopsy--a procedure of limited application.
• Prospective analysis of the effect of incidental appendectomy on infection rate after cholecystectomy.
• A comparison of Levin and sump nasogastric tubes for postoperative gastrointestinal decompression.
• A simple method for retraction of upper abdominal viscera in pelvic operations.
• Clinical efficacy of temporal artery biopsy in Nashville, Tennessee.
• The Y anastomosis of César Roux.
• Pulmonary hyalinizing granuloma.
• Synovial cysts of the groin. Case report.
• Combining laparoscopic cholecystectomy and (peri) umbilical herniorrhaphy.
• A study of rib biopsy.

Schools

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• Vanderbilt University

Conditions Treated

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• Esophageal Cancer

Doctors Specialties

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• Cardiac Surgery
• General Surgery

Accepted Insurances

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• Aetna
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Cigna
• Commercial Insurance Company
• GEHA
• Humana
• Mail Handlers Benefit Plan (MHBP)
• Medicare MCR
• United Healthcare

Awards

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• Fellow (FACS)

Education

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• University of Washington
• University of Virginia
• Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

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