Associate Professor, Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin
Neurosurgery
Dr. Christopher Wolfla, MD
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Christopher Wolfla is an expert in the field of Neurosurgery. He graduated from Indiana University School of Medicine. Indiana University School of Medicine has a rank of 45 in research and a 47 in primary care He received 4 awards: "Regional Top Doctor", "Back Pain Recognition Program", "Super Doctor" and "Fellow (FAANS)". Christopher Wolfla is also published. He has 26 publications published. The lastest publication: "Brain tissue pressure gradients are dependent upon a normal spinal subarachnoid space.' He accepts Medicare.
Publications
- Lateral neck injury assessments in side impact using post mortem human subject tests.
- Persistent first intersegmental vertebral artery in association with type II odontoid Fracture: surgical treatment utilizing a novel C1 posterior arch screw: case report.
- Biomechanical implications of extending occipitocervical instrumentation to include the subaxial spine.
- Trends and variations in Cervical spine surgery in the United States: Medicare beneficiaries, 1992 to 2005.
- Comparison of contemporary occipitoCervical instrumentation techniques with and without C1 lateral mass screws.
- Level-dependent coronal and axial moment-rotation corridors of degeneration-free Cervical spines in lateral flexion.
- Anatomical, biomechanical, and practical considerations in posterior occipitoCervical instrumentation.
- Validation of a clinical finite element model of the human lumbosacral Spine.
- Single-stage thoracolumbar vertebrectomy with circumferential reconstruction and arthrodesis: surgical technique and results in 15 patients.
- Cervical ventral epidural pressure response to graded spinal canal compromise and spinal motion.
- Reversal of neurologic deficit in an adult gorilla with severe symptomatic lumbar Stenosis.
- Retroperitoneal lateral lumbar interbody fusion with titanium threaded fusion cages.
- Biomechanical properties of human thoracic Spine disc segments.
- Regulation of the expression of the rat alcohol dehydrogenase gene by glucocorticoids.
- Induction of alcohol dehydrogenase activity and mRNA in hepatoma cells by dexamethasone.
- Hodgkin's lymphoma presenting in two siblings with atypical pseudocholinesterase.
- Brain tissue pressure gradients created by expanding frontal epidural mass lesion.
- The fiberoptic intraparenchymal Cerebral pressure monitor in 244 patients.
- Regional Brain tissue pressure gradients created by expanding extradural temporal mass lesion.
- Primary extramedullary ependymoma of the thoracic Spine. Case illustration.
- Brain tissue pressure gradients are dependent upon a normal spinal subarachnoid space.
- Rosai-Dorman Disease causing cervical myelopathy.
- Resident curriculum guidelines for neurosurgery. Congress of Neurological Surgeons Education Committee.
- Unicameral bone cyst of a Cervical vertebral body and lateral mass with associated pathological fracture in a child. Case report and review of the literature.
- Fenestration of bone flap during decompressive craniotomy for subdural hematoma.
Schools
Indiana University School Of Medicine
In University Med Center
Procedures Preformed
- Craniectomy, Craniotomy, Surgery of Skull Base, Neuroendoscopy
- Disc Replacement
- Dural Repair or Other Spinal Spinal Cord Repair
- Herniated Disc Surgery
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Conditions Treated
- Brain and Nervous System Cancer (incl. Gliomas, Astrocytoma, Schwannoma, Medulloblastoma, Chordoma)
- Brain Aneurysm
- Cerebral Hemorrhage
- Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak (CSF Leak)
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Doctors Specialties
- Neurosurgery
Accepted Insurances
- Choice Plus POS II
- American Republic
- Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO
- Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO
- Blue Preferred Plus POS
- Assurant Health
- Blue Card PPO
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- Open Access Plus
- Commercial Insurance Company
- CoreSource
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- Golden Rule
- GEHA
- Choice Care PPO
- Preferred PPO
- Medicare MCR
- Molina
- MultiPlan
- Principal Life
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- United Healthcare
Awards
- Regional Top Doctor
- Back Pain Recognition Program
- Super Doctor
- Fellow (FAANS)
Education
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Indiana University School of Medicine
Hospital
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Children's Hospital of Wisconsin -
Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1003868589 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | WOLFLA |
| First Name Of The Provider | CHRISTOPHER |
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