Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery, University Utah
Neurosurgery
Dr. Douglas L. Brockmeyer, MD
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Douglas Brockmeyer works in the field of Neurosurgery. He attended Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He over the years received 2 awards: "America's Top Doctors" and "Fellow (FAANS)". Douglas L. Brockmeyer, MD is a published MD. He has 78 publications published. The most current publication "Nine-year-old female with neck pain."
Publications
- Management of subaxial cervical instability in very young or small-for-age children using a static single-screw anterior cervical plate: indications, results, and long...
- Avoiding early complications and reoperation during occipitocervical fusion in pediatric patients.
- The complex Chiari malformation: an evolution of understanding.
- Comparing fourth ventricle shunt survival after placement via stereotactic transtentorial and suboccipital approaches.
- Complex Chiari malformations in children: an analysis of preoperative risk factors for occipitocervical fusion.
- Expert's comment concerning Grand Rounds case entitled "Cervical spine Injury in the young child" (Navin Nashiel Ramrattan, F. Cumhur Öner, Bronek M. Boszczyk, René M....
- A rare case of a pediatric extraventricular neurocytoma: case report and review of the literature.
- Atlantal hemi-rings and craniocervical instability: identification, clinical characteristics, and management.
- The complex Chiari: issues and management strategies.
- Shunt failure due to intraCranial migration of BioGlide ventricular catheters.
- Editorial. Chiari malformation Type I and scoliosis: the complexity of curves.
- Equivalence of fusion rates after rigid internal fixation of the occiput to C-2 with or without C-1 instrumentation.
- Safe treatment of pulmonary hypertension with bosentan in a patient with moyamoya Disease and cerebral ischemia.
- Utility of a cervical spine clearance protocol after Trauma in children between 0 and 3 years of age.
- Occipitocervical instrumentation in the pediatric population using a custom loop construct: initial results and long-term follow-up experience.
- Clinical clearance of the cervical spine in blunt Trauma patients younger than 3 years: a multi-center study of the american association for the surgery of Trauma.
- Novel multiDisciplinary approach for treatment of langerhans cell histiocytosis of the skull base.
- The lasso technique for posterior C1-C2 fusion.
- Lateral mass screw fixation of C-1.
- Selection of a rigid internal fixation construct for stabilization at the cranioVertebral junction in pediatric patients.
- Evaluation of the necessity of postoperative imaging after craniosynostosis surgery.
- Glutaric aciduria type 1 presenting as bilateral subdural hematomas mimicking nonaccidental Trauma. Case report and review of the literature.
- Optic pathway Gliomas: a review.
- Epidural venous engorgement resulting in progressive cervical myelopathy from shunt-related intraCranial hypotension. Case report and review of the literature.
- Cervical spine clearance after Trauma in children.
- Outcomes after decompressive craniectomy for severe traumatic Brain injury in children.
- Long-term maintenance of cervical alignment after occipitocervical and atlantoaxial screw fixation in young children.
- Morphometric and qualitative analysis of congenital occipitocervical instability in children: implications for patients with Down syndrome.
- Multilevel cervical Disconnection syndrome: initial description, embryogenesis, and management. Report of two cases.
- Cervical spine Deformity associated with resection of spinal cord tumors.
- Odontoid synchondrosis Fractures in children.
- Cranial base strategies for resection of craniopharyngioma in children.
- Diffusion restriction of a Spinal arachnoid cyst: case illustration.
- Expansion of arachnoid cysts in children: report of two cases and review of the literature.
- Atlantoaxial transarticular screw fixation: a review of surgical indications, fusion rate, complications, and lessons learned in 67 pediatric patients.
- Juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma of the Brainstem in children.
- Complications of intraCranial pressure monitoring in children with head trauma.
- Spinal cord Schwannomas mimicking drop metastases in a patient with intramedullary ependymoma and neurofibromatosis 2.
- Surgical management of aneurysmal bone cysts of the Spine.
- A bone and cable girth-hitch technique for atlantoaxial fusion in pediatric patients. Technical note.
- Occipitocervicothoracic stabilization in pediatric patients.
- Cerebrospinal fluid dissecting into spinal epidural space after lumbar puncture causing cauda equina syndrome: review of literature and illustrative case.
- The role of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging in pediatric Brain tumors.
- Results of endoscopic septal fenestration in the treatment of isolated ventricular Hydrocephalus.
- Ruptured intraCranial mycotic aneurysm: an unusual infectious complication following craniofacial surgery.
- A new occipitocervical fusion construct in pediatric patients with occipitocervical instability. Technical note.
- Anatomical suitability of C1-2 transarticular screw placement in pediatric patients.
- Cerebral granular cell tumor occurring with glioblastoma multiforme: case report.
- Neurenteric cysts of the posterior fossa: recognition, management, and embryogenesis.
- Management of posthemorrhagic Hydrocephalus in the low-birth-weight preterm neonate.
- The NeuroNavigational 1.2-mm Neuroview Neuroendoscope.
- Astrocytoma and pineoblastoma arising sequentially in the fourth ventricle of the same patient. Case report and molecular analysis.
- Choroid plexus papilloma and cysts in the Aicardi syndrome: case reports.
- Pediatric skull base surgery. 1. Embryology and developmental anatomy.
- Pediatric skull base surgery. 2. Experience and outcomes in 55 patients.
- Craniocervical anomalies in Dubowitz syndrome. Three cases and a literature review.
- Scoliosis associated with Chiari 1 malformations: the effect of suboccipital decompression on scoliosis curve progression: a preliminary study.
- A new approach to the reconstruction of extensive congenital midline nasal defects.
- Techniques of endoscopic third ventriculostomy.
- Cervical spine Trauma in children: a review.
- Pediatric arteriovenous malformations: a 15-year experience with an emphasis on residual and recurrent lesions.
- Cervical spine Trauma in the pediatric patient.
- Phase II clinical trial of moderate hypothermia after severe traumatic Brain injury in children.
- Congenital anomalies of the cervical Spine.
- Chiari malformations, syringohydromyelia and scoliosis.
- Early post-traumatic seizures in moderate to severe pediatric traumatic Brain injury: rates, risk factors, and clinical features.
- Os odontoideum: presentation, diagnosis, and treatment in a series of 78 patients.
- Failed age-dependent maturation of the occipital condyle in patients with congenital occipitoatlantal instability and Down syndrome: a preliminary analysis.
- p53 mutation and loss of heterozygosity on chromosomes 17 and 10 during human Astrocytoma progression.
- Concerning the article by Schultz et al., Pediatr Neurosurg 2000;33:169-181. Pediatric occipitocervical arthrodesis: a review of current options and early evaluation o...
- Down syndrome and cranioVertebral instability. Topic review and treatment recommendations.
- Meningitis due to Ochrobactrum anthropi: an emerging nosocomial pathogen. A report of 3 cases.
- Endoscopic third ventriculostomy: an outcome analysis.
- Nine-year-old female with neck pain.
- Pediatric cervical Spine instrumentation using screw fixation.
- Concerning the article by Baumann GS et al. Pediatr Neurosurg 1996;24:193-201: gamma knife radiosurgery in children.
- Building consensus: development of a Best Practice Guideline (BPG) for surgical site infection (SSI) prevention in high-risk pediatric Spine surgery.
Schools
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
University Utah Med Center
Procedures Preformed
- CerebroSpinal Fluid (CSF) Shunt - Insertion, Repair or Removal
- Craniectomy, Craniotomy, Surgery of Skull Base, Neuroendoscopy
- Dural Repair or Other Spinal Spinal Cord Repair
- IntraCranial Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM) Repair
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Conditions Treated
- Brain and Nervous System Cancer (incl. Gliomas, Astrocytoma, Schwannoma, Medulloblastoma, Chordoma)
- Brain Cancer
- Brain Injury
- CerebroSpinal Fluid Leak (CSF Leak)
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Doctors Specialties
- Neurosurgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- Fellow (FAANS)
Education
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University of Utah -
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Hospital
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University of Utah Health Care - Hospital and Clinics
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