Anyone went to or heard of these doctors ?

Our Thoracic Outlet Syndrome Specialists

Vascular Surgery 550 First Avenue New York, NY 10016 1-877-4-NYUCVI (698284)

Mark A. Adelman, M.D. Chief of Vascular Surgery

Neal Cayne, M.D. Director of the NYU Endovascular Surgery Program

Glenn R. Jacobowitz, M.D. Vice Chief of the NYU Division of Vascular Surgery / Director of Vascular Surgical Services at Tisch Hospital

Lowell S. Kabnick, M.D. Director of the NYU Vein Center

Patrick J. Lamparello, M.D. Vice-Chair of Vascular Surgery / Director of the Vascular Surgery Fellowship Program

Thomas Maldonado, M.D. Chief of Vascular Surgery, Bellevue Hospital

Firas F. Mussa, M.D. Assistant Professor of Surgery at the NYU School of Medicine

Thomas S. Riles, M.D. Associate Dean for Medical Education and Technology / Frank C. Spencer Professor of Surgery

Caron Rockman, M.D. Director of Medical Education and the Director of Clinical Research for the NYU Division of Vascular Surgery

Frank J. Veith, M.D. The First U.S. Surgeon to Perform an Endovascular Aneurysm Repair

Particularly Dr. Fantini apparently is rated in the top doctors in the 1% for thoracic outlet syndrome. Anyone hear of him ? He's from new York Presbyterian and cornell.

Hi - I'm in California but my doc (Hugh Gelabert) mas a moderator at the recent annual UCLA Symposium titled: "A Comprehensive Review and Update of What’s New in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery." You can find the brochure at: http://www.wesleymooremd.com/PDF/201...w-brochure.pdf

There is a listing of guest faculty and moderators from all over the country. I figure if they are good enough to be invited, they have to be pretty good surgeons. At a quick glance, I see Dr. Frank Veith in New York. Good luck in finding a doctor.

I've seen Dr. Mark Adelman at NYU and really like him. (Had previously been to Columbia/Presbyterian, Yale New Haven and Mass General.)

Was the first guy to take the time to really talk and explain and answer my questions to my satisfaction. And, even tho, as he said, he was a surgeon and that's how he makes his money, he did NOT recommend surgery, and advised against it for some very reasonable and legitimate and even scary reasons.

(Yale and Columbia were ready to cut in only 5-10 minutes of seeing me, because that's what you do for TOS..., Mass General wanted to run through his evidently standard routine of botox and such before deciding on surgery or not (several others here have seen him and been told exactly what he told me he wanted to do. Only with me, he mixed up my records with someone else's, and when I found out and told him of the mistake, he dumped me.))

Spent a year traveling this whole route before finding Adelman, am now trying his recommendations of what to do via physical therapy. But I am an unusual case, my vascular TOS is caused by keloid-type scar tissue around artery and vein, from broken clavicle that needed surgical repair, not from incorrect rib-clavicle spacing or muscle problems or any of the usual. But I was very impressed with Dr. Adelman and the staff there, as I has ultrasound testing (I also have subclavian steal syndrome and vertebro-basilar insufficiency going on from this) before seeing him.

I was just diagnosed with TOS and referred to a surgeon at MGH. I am curious to know who you saw. I am very leery of surgery, although I have some neurologic damage in my hand at this point.