Physician
Neurosurgery
Dr. Lawrence H. Pitts, MD
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Lawrence Pitts is an expert in the field of Neurosurgery. He attended Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He over the years received 2 awards: "Fellow (FACS)" and "Fellow (FAANS)". Lawrence Pitts is a published doctor. He published 101 publications, including: 'Primary end points in phase III clinical trials of severe head trauma: DRS versus GOS. The American Brain Injury Consortium Study Group.'
Publications
- Extent of resection and the long-term durability of vestibular schwannoma surgery.
- Factors associated with preservation of facial nerve function after surgical resection of vestibular schwannoma.
- Intratumoral hemorrhage and fibrosis in vestibular schwannoma: a possible mechanism for hearing loss.
- A prospective study of hearing preservation in untreated vestibular schwannomas.
- Implications of Cystic Features in Vestibular Schwannomas of Patients Undergoing Microsurgical Resection.
- A critical evaluation of vestibular schwannoma surgery for patients younger than 40 years of age.
- A comprehensive analysis of hearing preservation after radiosurgery for vestibular schwannoma.
- The natural history of untreated sporadic vestibular schwannomas: a comprehensive review of hearing outcomes.
- Facial nerve preservation after vestibular schwannoma Gamma Knife radiosurgery.
- Optimal placement of recording electrodes for quantifying facial nerve compound muscle action potential.
- Selection of surgical approach to acoustic neuroma. 1992.
- Intraoperative electrophysiologic identification of the nervus intermedius.
- Resolution of intracranial hypertension after elevation of depressed cranial fracture over the superior sagittal sinus: case report.
- The fate of the tumor remnant after less-than-complete acoustic neuroma resection.
- The effect of age on acoustic neuroma surgery outcomes.
- Is it worthwhile to attempt hearing preservation in larger acoustic neuromas?
- Cerebrospinal fluid leak after acoustic neuroma surgery: a comparison of the translabyrinthine, middle fossa, and retrosigmoid approaches.
- Risk-benefit analysis of using the middle fossa approach for acoustic neuromas with >10 mm cerebellopontine angle component.
- Distal anterior inferior cerebellar artery syndrome after acoustic neuroma surgery.
- Clinical trials in head injury.
- Hearing preservation after stereotactic radiosurgery for vestibular schwannoma: a systematic review.
- The value of intraoperative facial nerve electromyography in predicting facial nerve function after vestibular schwannoma surgery.
- Supplementary comment on "Effect of therapeutic moderate hypothermia on multi-drug resistance protein 1-mediated transepithelial transport of drugs".
- Complications of lumboperitoneal shunts.
- Hearing preservation in patients undergoing vestibular schwannoma surgery: comparison of middle fossa and retrosigmoid approaches.
- Facial nerve outcome after acoustic neuroma surgery: a study from the era of cranial nerve monitoring.
- Gadolinium-DTPA enhanced magnetic resonance imaging in acoustic neuroma diagnosis and management.
- Acoustic neuroma.
- Metastatic spinal ependymoma presenting as a vestibular schwannoma. Case illustration.
- Comparison of response amplitude versus stimulation threshold in predicting early postoperative facial nerve function after acoustic neuroma resection.
- Delayed onset facial nerve dysfunction following acoustic neuroma surgery.
- Lesions of the internal auditory canal and cerebellopontine angle in an only hearing ear: is surgery ever advisable?
- Extradural temporal lobe retraction in the middle fossa approach to the internal auditory canal: biomechanical analysis.
- Is the entire fundus of the internal auditory canal visible during the middle fossa approach for acoustic neuroma?
- Acoustic neuromas presenting with normal or symmetrical hearing: factors associated with diagnosis and outcome.
- Selection of surgical approach to acoustic neuroma.
- Are acoustic neuromas encapsulated tumors?
- Isolated metastatic melanoma of the cerebellopontine angle: case report.
- Primary end points in phase III clinical trials of severe head trauma: DRS versus GOS. The American Brain Injury Consortium Study Group.
- Functional recovery after traumatic transtentorial herniation.
- Effects of the bradykinin antagonist Bradycor (deltibant, CP-1027) in severe traumatic brain injury: results of a multi-center, randomized, placebo-controlled trial. A...
- Microsurgical treatment of symptomatic sacral Tarlov cysts.
- Treatment of acoustic neuromas.
- The effect of intracerebral hematoma location on the risk of brain-stem compression and on clinical outcome.
- Use of intraoperative ultrasonography to improve the diagnostic accuracy of exploratory burr holes in patients with traumatic tentorial herniation.
- Interconnecting the posterior and middle cranial fossae for tumors that traverse Meckel's cave.
- An epidural intracranial pressure monitor for experimental use in the rat.
- Systematic approach to intradural tumors ventral to the brain stem.
- Influence of the type of intracranial lesion on outcome from severe head injury.
- Neurotrauma care and the neurosurgeon: a statement from the Joint Section on Trauma of the AANS and CNS.
- Predicting survival from head trauma 24 hours after injury: a practical method with therapeutic implications.
- Management of head injury. Extracerebral lesions.
- Efficacy of irradiation for incompletely excised acoustic neurilemomas.
- Five year results of LINAC radiosurgery for arteriovenous malformations: outcome for large AVMS.
- Effect of U74006F on neurologic function and brain edema after fluid percussion injury in rats.
- Altered immunoexpression of microglia and macrophages after mild head injury.
- The proliferative activity of neurilemomas.
- Nonoperative treatment of spinal epidural infections.
- Brain shift, level of consciousness, and restoration of consciousness in patients with acute intracranial hematoma.
- Magnetic resonance imaging and 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy for evaluating focal cerebral ischemia.
- Effect of opiate antagonists on middle cerebral artery occlusion infarct in the rat.
- The effects of hypovolemic hypotension on high-energy phosphate metabolism of traumatized brain in rats.
- Cervical root compression by a traumatic pseudoaneurysm of the vertebral artery: case report.
- Use of the argon surgical laser in neurosurgery.
- Treatment with thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) in patients with traumatic spinal cord injuries.
- Breakdown of the blood-brain barrier after fluid percussive brain injury in the rat. Part 1: Distribution and time course of protein extravasation.
- Breakdown of the blood-brain barrier after fluid percussion brain injury in the rat: Part 2: Effect of hypoxia on permeability to plasma proteins.
- Outcome after severe head injury: an analysis of prediction based upon comparison of neural network versus logistic regression analysis.
- Implications of systemic hypotension for the neurological examination in patients with severe head injury.
- Hypotension, hypoxia, and head injury: frequency, duration, and consequences.
- Prognosticators of outcome after major head injury in the elderly.
- Presentation of type I Chiari malformation after head trauma.
- Purkinje cell vulnerability to mild traumatic brain injury.
- Surgical exploration before computed tomography scanning in children with traumatic tentorial herniation.
- Decompression of the optic nerve sheath for vision-threatening papilledema caused by dural sinus occlusion.
- Withholding and withdrawing of life support from patients with severe head injury.
- Outcome from severe head injury in children and adolescents.
- Intraoperative ultrasound imaging of the entire brain through unilateral exploratory burr holes after severe head injury: technical note.
- Severity and outcome of intracranial lesions in pedestrians injured by motor vehicles.
- Guidelines for the management of severe head injury. Brain Trauma Foundation.
- Neurofibromatosis 2 and malignant mesothelioma.
- Analysis of chromosome 22 deletions in neurofibromatosis type 2-related tumors.
- Effect on outcome of prolonged exposure of patients to nitrous oxide.
- Intervertebral disc space infection caused by Aspergillus fumigatus.
- Cerebral oxygenation during hemorrhagic shock: perils of hyperventilation and the therapeutic potential of hypoventilation.
- Brain tissue oxygenation during hemorrhagic shock, resuscitation, and alterations in ventilation.
- Epidermoid and dermoid cysts of the posterior fossa.
- A novel double-surface coil approach to phosphorus-31 spectroscopy: a study of hemispheric brain injury in the rat.
- Surface coil spectroscopic imaging: time and spatial evolution of lactate production following fluid percussion brain injury.
- Magnetic resonance imaging in the evaluation of nimodipine-treated acute experimental focal cerebral ischemia.
- High energy phosphate metabolism in experimental permanent focal cerebral ischemia: an in vivo 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy study.
- Tissue distribution of intravenously administered dimethyl sulfoxide in the normal rat.
- Evaluation of 2,3,5-triphenyltetrazolium chloride staining to delineate rat brain infarcts.
- The effect of hypoxia on traumatic head injury in rats: alterations in neurologic function, brain edema, and cerebral blood flow.
- Neurotrauma and trauma systems.
- Traumatic intracerebral hematomas: timing of appearance and indications for operative removal.
- Is computed tomographic scanning necessary in patients with tentorial herniation? Results of immediate surgical exploration without computed tomography in 100 patients.
- Arterial injection-digital subtraction angiography.
- Apnea testing in diagnosis of brain death.
- Correlation between angiographic vasospasm, hematoma, and ischemic brain damage following SAH.
Schools
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Doctors Specialties
- Neurosurgery
Accepted Insurances
- Blue Card PPO
- Advantage Preferred DirectAccess Plus PPO
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of California PPO
- Pathway X Direct Access PPO
- Pathway X Tiered Direct Access
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- Heritage Signature
Awards
- Fellow (FACS)
- Fellow (FAANS)
Education
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UCSF -
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
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