Internal MedicineInternal Medicine - sphere of medical science that studies the prevention, diagnosis and non-surgical methods of treatment of various diseases of the internal organs in adults.
- Texas, Lubbock
Dr. David R Close, MD works in
Lubbock, Texas is a specialist in Internal Medicine, Oncology and graduated Baylor Affil Hosps in 1975. Dr. Close is affiliated with Covenant Medical Center - 19th Street and practicing for 51 years
Specialties
Internal Medicine
Oncology
Conditions
• Actinic Cheilitis
• Acute Rhinitis
• Allergic Reactions to Insect Stings
• Aphasia
• Arterial Dissections With Lentiginosis
• Arterial Revascularization
• Bilateral Cataracts
• Bile Duct Procedure
• Brain and Nervous System Cancer (incl. Gliomas, Astrocytoma, Schwannoma, Medulloblastoma, Chordoma)
• Carcinoma ...
• Cardiomyopathy, Dilated 1P
• Cervical Spine Reconstruction
• Chronic Headache
• Chronic Pain Management
• Colon Disorders
• Congenital Mitral Stenosis
• Cough Headache
• Demyelinating Disorders
• Diseases Contagious from Safe Sex
• Endovascular Aneurysm Repair
• Excision or Destruction of Tongue Lesion
• External Ear Disorders
• Facet Joint Nerve Ablation
• Food Allergy - Codfish
• Food Allergy - Fruit
• Food Allergy - Tree Nuts
• FotoFinder® Melanoma Detection
• Functional Movement Screening
• Gastrointestinal Surgery, Laproscopic
• Genetic Disease of the Skin
• Hand Neuropathy
• Herbal Agent Adverse Reaction - Echinacea
• Hypertensive Encephalopathy
• Hypnosis (Medical Hypnotherapy)
• Hyposmolality and Hyponatremia
• Imperforate Anus
• Implanon® Placement
• Infantile Psoriasis
• Joint Implant
• Juvenile Macular Degeneration
• Knee Pain
• Laterality Defects
• Lumbar Decompression Therapy
• Marijuana Amotivational Syndrome
• Memory Disorders
• Mental Retardation, X-Linked Recessive - Macrocephaly - Ciliary Dysfunction
• Metabolic Rate Testing
• Microscopic Ulcerative Colitis
• Minimally Invasive Resection of Mediastinal Tumor
• Mitochondrial Diseases
• Muscle Hypotonia
• Muscular Dystrophy, Congenital, Type 1C
• Neurofibromatosis, Type 2
• Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer
• Ocular Myasthenia Gravis
• Optic Ataxia
• Outpatient and inpatient dialysis supervision and management [More]
• Photosensitivity
• Pleural Friction Rub
• Pneumoconiosis
• Pneumonia Due to Pseudomonas
• Popliteal Entrapment
• Post-Dysenteric Arthropathy
• Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis
• Prolactinoma
• Pulmonary Sarcoidosis
• Rathke's Cleft Cyst
• Retina-Vitreous Disorders
• Retinoschisis, Autosomal Dominant
• Salivary Gland Stones
• Sexual Disorders
• Shoulder Fractures
• Sigmoid Diverticulitis
• Skin Allergy
• Skin Lesion
• Sleep-Related Rhythmic Movement Disorder
• Spinal Dislocation
• Stitches
• Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)
• The provision of follow-up treatment for patients who have undergone kidney transplants
• The provision of nutritional information for patients with kidney disease
• Thoracoscopic Segmentectomy
• Venous Thromboembolic Disease
• Vulvovaginitis
• Warts
• Wound and-or Ulcer Foot
• Wound Infection
• Wrinkles more details
Procedures
• Acute Leukemia
• Adrenal Gland Cancer
• Anal and Rectal Cancer
• Anemia
• Basal Cell Carcinoma
• Bile Duct Cancer
• Bladder Cancer
• Bone Marrow Biopsy
• Brain and Nervous System Cancer (incl. Gliomas, Astrocytoma, Schwannoma, Medulloblastoma, Chordoma)
• Brain Cancer ...
• Breast Cancer
• Burkitt's Lymphoma
• Carcinoma in Situ
• Cardiac MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) of Heart or Chest
• Cervical Cancer
• Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML)
• Coagulation Disorders (incl. Hemophilia)
• Colorectal Cancer
• ENT Cancer
• Esophageal Cancer
• Gallbladder and Biliary Tract Cancer
• Gallbladder Cancer
• Graft vs Host Disease
• Hemophilia
• Hodgkin's Disease
• Hypercoagulable State
• Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP)
• Laryngeal Cancer
• Leukocytosis
• Lip Cancer
• Liver Cancer
• Lung Cancer
• Lung Neoplasms, Not Specified as Malignant
• Lymphocytosis
• Lymphoma
• Lymphoma, Large Cell, Anaplastic
• Lymphoma, Large-Cell
• Lymphosarcoma
• Macroglobulinemia (incl. Waldenstrom's )
• Mantle Cell Lymphoma
• Marginal Zone Lymphoma
• Mediastinal Tumors, Malignant
• Mediastinal Tumors, Not Specified as Malignant
• Melanoma
• Meningiomas
• Merkel Cell Carcinoma
• Mycosis Fungoides
• Myelodysplastic Syndromes
• Myeloma
• Myeloproliferative Disorders
• Neuroendocrine Tumors
• Neutropenia
• Nodular Lymphoma
• Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
• Oral Cancer
• Osteosarcoma
• Ovarian Cancer
• Pancreatic Cancer
• Pancytopenia
• Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma
• Pituitary Gland Cancer
• Plasmapheresis
• Pleura Cancer
• Pleural Neoplasm, Malignant
• Polycythemia Rubra Vera
• Prostate Cancer
• Qualitative Platelet Defects (incl. Glanzmann's Thrombasthenia)
• Renal (Kidney) Cancer
• Salivary Gland Cancer
• Secondary Malignancies
• Sickle Cell Disease
• Skin Cancer
• Small Intestine Cancer
• Soft Tissue Sarcoma
• Squamous Cell Carcinoma
• Stomach and Small Intestine Cancer
• Stomach Cancer
• Testicular Cancer
• Thalassemia
• Thoracentesis
• Throat Cancer (Hypopharyngeal)
• Throat Cancer (Nasopharyngeal)
• Throat Cancer (Oropharyngeal)
• Thrombocytosis
• Thymomas
• Thyroid Cancer
• Tongue Cancer
• Tonsil Cancer
• Uterine Cancer
• Vaginal Cancer
• Vertebral Column Tumors
• von Willebrand Disease more details
Board Certifications
Board Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine
Years Since Graduation
51
State License
Texas
Education & Training
Residency Hospital
Baylor Affil Hosps
Houston, TX, USA
Year completed: 1975
Internship Hospital
Baylor Affil Hosps
Houston, TX, USA
Year completed: 1973
Fellowship Hospital
Baylor Affil Hosps
Houston, TX, USA
Year completed: 1977
Medical School
University Of Colorado School Of Medicine
Denver, CO, United States
Graduated: 1972
Awards
1 ACP
2 AMA
3 ASCO
4 ASH
5 ASIM
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Office Locations
Primary location
Joe Arrington Cancer Center
4101 22nd Place
Texas (TX)
Lubbock
79410
Phone:(806) 725-8000
Accepting New Patients
Yes
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Map & Directions
Joe Arrington Cancer Center, 4101 22nd Place, Lubbock, Texas (TX), 79410
As our region's largest health system, Covenant Health System believes it is our responsibility to provide the best possible care for every one of the 1.2 million people we serve.Covenant Health System is a member of St. Joseph Health System, one of the most successful not-for-profit health systems ...
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