Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School Director Pituiraty/Neuroendocrine Center
Neurosurgery
Dr. Edward R. Laws, MD
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Edward Laws works in the field of Neurosurgery. He studied medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is a top medical university. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is ranked 3 in research and 29 in primary care medicine He received 6 awards: "Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Elected Member", "Fellow (FAANS)", "Fellow (FACS)", "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare" and "Super Doctor". Edward Laws is a published MD as well. He has 102 publications published. The latest was: Headache in Patients With Pituitary Lesions: A Longitudinal Cohort Study.
Publications
- Headache in Patients With Pituitary Lesions: A Longitudinal Cohort Study.
- The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the Evolution of Neuro-Trauma Care: Would the 16(th) President Have Survived in the Modern Era?
- Current indications for the surgical treatment of prolactinomas.
- MALDI mass spectrometry imaging analysis of pituitary adenomas for near-real-time tumor delineation.
- Obituary, Hugo V. Rizzoli, MD, FACS.
- Intrasellar abscess following pituitary surgery.
- Pituitary apoplexy.
- Paradigm shift: the endoscopic carotid.
- Complications after transsphenoidal surgery for patients with Cushing's Disease and silent corticotroph adenomas.
- Pituitary Dysfunction after Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.
- Incidence, risk factors and management of severe post-transsphenoidal epistaxis.
- Endoscopic Endonasal Surgery for Nonadenomatous Sellar/Parasellar Lesions.
- The Transition from Microscopic to Endoscopic Transsphenoidal Surgery: The Experience at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
- The Current Status of Endoscopy in Transsphenoidal Surgery. An International Survey.
- Acromegaly: an endocrine society clinical practice guideline.
- Long-term Results of Endonasal Endoscopic Transsphenoidal Resection of Nonfunctioning Pituitary Macroadenomas.
- Metabolic Imaging in the Detection of Growth Hormone-secreting Pituitary Adenomas.
- Exome sequencing identifies BRAF mutations in papillary Craniopharyngiomas.
- Autograft fat in neurological surgery.
- The postoperative cortisol stress response following transsphenoidal pituitary surgery: a potential screening method for assessing preserved pituitary function.
- In Reply: For Patients it is Life or Death.
- Pituitary incidentalomas.
- Evaluation of the 3-dimensional endoscope in transsphenoidal surgery.
- Early recognition of Cushing's Disease: A case study.
- Recognizing the clinical manifestations of acromegaly: Case studies.
- Complications of transsphenoidal surgery: the shortcomings of meta-analysis.
- The Cushing-Dandy Conflict - The Dandy Family Perception of the Discord.
- Craniopharyngioma: history.
- Endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery for cushing Disease: techniques, outcomes, and predictors of remission.
- Letters to the Editor: Lumbar drains in transsphenoidal surgery.
- The Endoscopic Endonasal Approach for Recurrent Pituitary Lesions.
- Pituitary centers of excellence.
- Filamin-A Is Essential for Dopamine D2 Receptor Expression and Signaling in Tumorous Lactotrophs.
- Lasers in Neurosurgery.
- The Evolution of Cushing's Surgical Treatment of Pituitary Lesions.
- New evidence of prefrontal lobotomy in the last months of the illness of Eva Perón.
- Cerebral aneurysms with intrasellar extension: a Systematic review of clinical, anatomical, and treatment characteristics.
- Management of pituitary tumors in pregnancy.
- The Utility of the High Dose Dexamethasone Suppression Test in Confirming the Diagnosis of Cushing's Disease.
- Visual recovery after pituitary surgery.
- Endoscopic Transsphenoidal Surgery for Acromegaly: Remission Using Modern Criteria, Complications, and Predictors of Outcome.
- Protocol for the examination of specimens from patients with primary pituitary tumors.
- Erratum to: Applications of radiotherapy and radiosurgery in the management of pediatric Cushing's Disease: a review of the literature and our experience.
- The neurosurgical anatomy of the sphenoid sinus and sellar floor in endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery.
- Management and implications of intraoperative Cerebrospinal fluid leak in transnasoseptal transsphenoidal microsurgery.
- The dynamics of post-operative plasma ACTH values following transsphenoidal surgery for Cushing's Disease.
- Gamma Knife surgery for pituitary adenomas: factors related to radiological and endocrine outcomes.
- Defining the "edge of the envelope": patient selection in treating complex sellar-based neoplasms via transsphenoidal versus open craniotomy.
- Atypical pituitary adenomas: incidence, clinical characteristics, and implications.
- Neurosurgeon of the year.
- The elusive Minnie G.: revisiting Cushing's case XLV, and his early attempts at improving quality of life.
- Midline filum of the sellar dura: a useful landmark during endoscopic transsphenoidal pituitary surgery.
- Temozolomide treatment for aggressive pituitary tumors: correlation of clinical outcome with O(6)-methylguanine methyltransferase (MGMT) promoter methylation and expre...
- Cushing's Disease and idiopathic intracranial hypertension: case report and review of underlying pathophysiological mechanisms.
- Patterns of extrasellar extension in growth hormone-secreting and nonfunctional pituitary macroadenomas.
- Transsphenoidal surgery in patients with acromegaly: operative strategies for overcoming technically challenging anatomical variations.
- Surgical outcome in 90 patients with Craniopharyngiomas: an evaluation of the transsphenoidal approach.
- Simultaneous transsphenoidal and intraventricular endoscopic approaches for macroadenomas with extensive suprasellar extension: surgery from below, above, or both?
- An historical context of modern principles in the management of intracranial injury from projectiles.
- Music and the Brain.
- Endoscopy versus MR imaging.
- Early outcomes of endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery for adult Craniopharyngiomas.
- Craniopharyngioma and other cystic epithelial lesions of the sellar region: a review of clinical, imaging, and histopathological relationships.
- Intraoperative conversion from endoscopic to microscopic approach for the management of sellar pathology: incidence and rationale in a contemporary series.
- Immunohistochemistry of COUP-TFI: an adjuvant diagnostic tool for the identification of corticotroph microadenomas.
- Gamma knife surgery for lymphocytic hypophysitis.
- Clinical and pathological characteristics of Brain metastasis resected after failed radiosurgery.
- Craniopharyngioma.
- The transsphenoidal resection of pediatric Craniopharyngiomas: a case series.
- Bilateral adrenalectomy for refractory Cushing Disease: a safe and definitive therapy.
- Stereotactic radiosurgery for pituitary adenomas: a comprehensive review of indications, techniques and long-term results using the Gamma Knife.
- The implications of microsurgical anatomy for surgical approaches to the sellar region.
- Management of Cushing's Disease: outcome in patients with microadenoma detected on pituitary magnetic resonance imaging.
- Endoscopic transnasal versus open transcranial cranial base surgery: the need for a serene assessment.
- Outcomes after repeat transsphenoidal surgery for recurrent Cushing's Disease.
- Transsphenoidal approaches for the extracapsular resection of midline suprasellar and anterior cranial base lesions.
- Gamma knife radiosurgery for acromegaly: outcomes after failed transsphenoidal surgery.
- Pituitary apoplexy: correlation between magnetic resonance imaging and histopathological results.
- Honoring the 75th anniversary of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. Preface.
- Surgery for acromegaly: evolution of the techniques and outcomes.
- Pituitary tumor apoplexy: a review.
- Late recurrences of Cushing's Disease after initial successful transsphenoidal surgery.
- Matrix metalloproteinase-9, a potential biological marker in invasive pituitary adenomas.
- Reconstruction of the sellar dura in transsphenoidal surgery using an expanded polytetrafluoroethylene dural substitute.
- The evolution of extracranial approaches to the pituitary and anterior skull base.
- Benign Brain tumors: sellar/parasellar tumors.
- Incidence of symptomatic hemorrhage after stereotactic electrode placement.
- Clinical relevance of precipitating factors in pituitary apoplexy.
- Honoring the 75th anniversary of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.
- Outcomes and management of patients with Cushing's Disease without pathological confirmation of tumor resection after transsphenoidal surgery.
- Arachnoid diverticula associated with anterior cranial base tumors: technical case report.
- History of endoscopic skull base surgery: its evolution and current reality.
- Gamma Knife surgery for Cushing's Disease.
- Gamma Knife surgery for adrenocorticotropic hormone-producing pituitary adenomas after bilateral adrenalectomy.
- Acute care surgery: challenges and opportunities from the neurosurgical perspective.
- Matrix metalloproteinase-9 is differentially expressed in nonfunctioning invasive and noninvasive pituitary adenomas and increases invasion in human pituitary adenoma ...
- National trends, complications, and outcomes following transsphenoidal surgery for Cushing's Disease from 1993 to 2002.
- The role of inferior petrosal sinus sampling in the diagnostic localization of Cushing's Disease.
- Brain atrophy and cognitive deficits in Cushing's disease.
- How a Lumbar Diskectomy Influenced Medical Malpractice and the Landscape of Health Care.
- Efficacy of Three-Dimensional Endoscopy for Ventral Skull Base Pathology: A Systematic Review of the Literature.
Schools
Johns Hopkins University School Of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University Schoo
Procedures Preformed
- Craniectomy, Craniotomy, Surgery of Skull Base, Neuroendoscopy
- Neuroplasty
- Pituitary Gland Tumor Excision
Conditions Treated
- Brain and Nervous System Cancer (incl. Gliomas, Astrocytoma, Schwannoma, Medulloblastoma, Chordoma)
- Brain Cancer
- Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak (CSF Leak)
- Craniopharyngioma
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Doctors Specialties
- Neurosurgery
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna HMO
- Choice Plus POS II
- Blue Card PPO
- BlueConnect HMO
- Blue with Managed Care Behavioral Health HMO
- Preferred Blue PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- Open Access Plus
- Commercial Insurance Company
- Individual and Family PPO
- Choice Care PPO
- Medicaid
- Medicare MCR
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
- Tufts PPO
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- United Healthcare
Awards
- Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Elected Member
- Fellow (FAANS)
- Fellow (FACS)
- Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare
- Super Doctor
Education
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Johns Hopkins University -
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Hospital
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Massachusetts General Hospital -
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute -
Brigham and Women's Hospital
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1326117953 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | LAWS |
| First Name Of The Provider | EDWARD |
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