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Andrea Abbott is a Surgical Oncologist practicing medicine in Charleston, South Carolina. Dr. Abbott is highly rated in 22 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Breast Cancer, Retroperitoneal Liposarcoma, Melanoma, Lymphadenectomy, and Liver Embolization. Dr. Abbott is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Denise Carneiro-Pla is a board-certified general surgeon who is focused in endocrine surgery. She was educated in Brazil including medical school and residency in general surgery. In 1998, shortly after her residency, she was invited to the United States to be a researcher in endocrine surgery which started her interest and commitment to this specialty. The research fellowship at the University of Miami School of Medicine lasted for a period of three-and-a-half years and then extended to another year and a half as a clinical fellow of endocrine surgery under Dr. George Irvin's mentorship.Following these five years of specialized endocrine surgery training in this center of excellence, Dr. Carneiro-Pla was ready to start her career as an academic surgeon in the U.S. and she repeated the residency in general surgery at the University of Miami School of Medicine.Dr. Carneiro-Pla has been a faculty of the Department of Surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina since 2007, with a practice exclusively dedicated to endocrine surgery treating thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal surgical diseases. She remains academically productive writing papers and book chapters in endocrine surgery, mainly in parathyroid disease and cervical ultrasonography, which are her special interests.Dr. Carneiro-Pla currently sees patients in downtown Charleston at Hollings Cancer Center and at North Charleston Specialty Care, where ultrasonography is available as part of cervical physical examination and to guide necessary procedures. The indicated surgeries are performed at our state-of-the-art hospital, Ashley River Tower. Dr. Carneiro-Pla is highly rated in 9 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Thyroid Cancer, Neonatal Severe Hyperparathyroidism, Follicular Thyroid Cancer, Parathyroidectomy, and Thyroidectomy. Dr. Carneiro-Pla is currently accepting new patients.

Daniel Kirchoff is a Surgical Oncologist practicing medicine in Charleston, South Carolina. Dr. Kirchoff is highly rated in 11 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Familial Pancreatic Cancer, Paget Disease of the Breast, Familial Colorectal Cancer, Pancreatectomy, and Pancreaticoduodenectomy. Dr. Kirchoff is currently accepting new patients.