Director, Clinical Pediatric Neurosurgical Oncology, Children's Hospital/Dana Farber Cancer Institut
Neurosurgery
Dr. Liliana C. Goumnerova, MD
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Liliana Goumnerova is an expert in the field of Neurosurgery. She has 5 awards "America's Top Doctors", "Boston Magazine", "America's Top Doctors for Cancer", "Fellow (FAANS)" and "Fellow (FACS)". Liliana Goumnerova is a published doctor. She has 91 publications published. The most current publication "Activation of neurotrophin-3 receptor TrkC induces apoptosis in medulloblastomas."
Publications
- Expression profiles of 151 pediatric low-grade Gliomas reveal molecular differences associated with location and histological subtype.
- Recurrence after gross-total resection of low-grade pediatric Brain tumors: the frequency and timing of postoperative imaging.
- Recurrent somatic mutations in ACVR1 in pediatric midline high-grade Astrocytoma.
- Long-term outcome of 4,040 children diagnosed with pediatric low-grade Gliomas: An analysis of the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database.
- Resection of supratentorial lobar cavernous malformations in children.
- Genomic analysis of diffuse pediatric low-grade Gliomas identifies recurrent oncogenic truncating rearrangements in the transcription factor MYBL1.
- Predictors of neoplastic disease in children with isolated pituitary stalk thickening.
- Sleep dysfunction in long term survivors of craniopharyngioma.
- Diffuse central neurocytoma with cranioSpinal dissemination.
- Long-term clinical outcomes following treatment of childhood craniopharyngioma.
- Meningoencephalocele and other dural disruptions: complications of Le Fort III midfacial osteotomies and distraction.
- Meningoencephalocele: a late complication of Le Fort III midfacial advancement in a patient with Crouzon syndrome.
- Germinoma with malignant transformation to nongerminomatous germ cell Tumor.
- Clinicopathologic study of glioblastoma in children with neurofibromatosis type 1.
- Medical, psychological, cognitive and educational late-effects in pediatric low-grade glioma survivors treated with surgery only.
- Primary pediatric intraSpinal sarcomas. Report of 3 cases.
- CerebroSpinal fluid cytology in patients with ependymoma: a bi-institutional retrospective study.
- Detection of unanticipated intracranial hemorrhage during intraoperative magnetic resonance image-guided neurosurgery. Report of two cases.
- Wound complications associated with the use of bovine serum albumin-glutaraldehyde surgical adhesive in pediatric patients.
- Traumatic pericallosal artery aneurysm: a rare complication of transcallosal surgery. Case report.
- Endoscopic third ventriculocisternostomy for Brainstem tumors.
- Everyday cognitive function after craniopharyngioma in childhood.
- The use of a laryngeal mask airway for emergent airway management in a prone child.
- Cytologic features of pilocytic Astrocytoma in cerebrospinal fluid specimens.
- Nasal glioma and encephalocele: diagnosis and management.
- Medulloblastoma tumorigenesis diverges from cerebellar granule cell differentiation in patched heterozygous mice.
- Neuropsychological functioning after surgery in children treated for Brain tumor.
- Moyamoya following cranial irradiation for primary Brain tumors in children.
- Multiparametric MR assessment of pediatric Brain tumors.
- Diencephalic syndrome: clinical features and imaging findings.
- Variant translocations involving 16q22 and 17p13 in solid variant and extraosseous forms of aneurysmal bone cyst.
- Proton magnetic spectroscopic imaging of the child''s Brain: the response of tumors to treatment.
- Stereotactic radiotherapy for pediatric intracranial germ cell Tumors.
- Measurements of intraventricular pressure in a patient shunted from the ventricle to the internal jugular vein against the direction of blood flow (the El-Shafei shunt).
- Chronic subdural hematoma mimicking transient ischemic attacks.
- Intracarotid infusion of PCNU (NSC: 95466): preclinical toxicological study in dogs.
- Development of symptomatic Chiari malformation in a child with craniofacial dysmorphism.
- A randomized controlled trial of perioperative rifampin/trimethoprim in cerebroSpinal fluid shunt surgery.
- Pediatric and adolescent oligodendroGliomas.
- Stereotactic radiotherapy for pediatric and adult Brain tumors: preliminary report.
- Surgery, radiation, and combination therapy in the treatment of childhood craniopharyngioma--a 20-year experience.
- Advances in radiation therapy for craniopharyngiomas.
- The critical importance of stimulus intensity in intraoperative monitoring for partial dorsal rhizotomy.
- Acquired cerebral arteriovenous malformation in a child with moyamoya disease. Case report.
- Acute presentation of an intracranial mass.
- Tectal Tumors of childhood: clinical and imaging follow-up.
- Treatment of Hydrocephalus with third ventriculocisternostomy: outcome and CSF flow patterns.
- Neurotrophins in cerebellar granule cell development and Medulloblastoma.
- Presentation and management of Chiari I malformation in children.
- Telemetric intraventricular pressure measurements after third ventriculocisternostomy in a patient with noncommunicating Hydrocephalus.
- The use of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) to evaluate practice and control costs in ventriculoperitoneal shunt management.
- Intraventricular urokinase for the treatment of posthemorrhagic Hydrocephalus.
- Thallium-201 versus technetium-99m-MIBI SPECT in evaluation of childhood Brain tumors: a within-subject comparison.
- Expression of the neurotrophin receptor TrkC is linked to a favorable outcome in Medulloblastoma.
- Results of radiosurgery in the management of recurrent and residual Medulloblastoma.
- Hemorrhagic vasculopathy after treatment of central Nervous system neoplasia in childhood: diagnosis and follow-up.
- Radiosurgery in the management of pediatric Brain tumors.
- Neurological dysfunction associated with postoperative cerebellar mutism.
- In vivo intracranial pressure dynamics in patients with Hydrocephalus treated by shunt placement.
- Endoscopic approach to noncommunicating fluid spaces in the shunted patient.
- Activation of neurotrophin-3 receptor TrkC induces apoptosis in Medulloblastomas.
- Growth factor receptors and Medulloblastoma.
- Magnetic resonance imaging changes after stereotactic radiation therapy for childhood low grade Astrocytoma.
- Memory deficits among children with craniopharyngiomas.
- Biochemical characterization of pediatric Brain tumors by using in vivo and ex vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
- Neuroimaging in pediatric Brain tumors: Gd-DTPA-enhanced, hemodynamic, and diffusion MR imaging compared with MR spectroscopic imaging.
- Prediction of central Nervous system embryonal tumour outcome based on gene expression.
- Stereotactic radiotherapy for localized low-grade Gliomas in children: final results of a prospective trial.
- Self-mutilation in young children following brachial plexus birth injury.
- Spectroscopic and perfusion magnetic resonance imaging predictors of progression in pediatric Brain tumors.
- Multiple successful revisions of a ventriculoureteral shunt without nephrectomy for the treatment of Hydrocephalus: case report.
- Diencephalic syndrome: a cause of failure to thrive and a model of partial growth hormone resistance.
- Continuous remission of newly diagnosed and relapsed central Nervous system atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor.
- Chemotherapy for progressive low-grade Gliomas in children older than ten years: the Dana-Farber experience.
- Magnetic resonance imaging of patched heterozygous and xenografted mouse Brain tumors.
- Phase II study of thalidomide and radiation in children with newly diagnosed Brain stem gliomas and glioblastoma multiforme.
- Transverse myelitis after therapy for primitive neuroectodermal Tumors.
- Outcome of pediatric pineoblastoma after surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.
- A multi-institutional, 5-year analysis of initial and multiple ventricular shunt revisions in children.
- Spinal tumors in children.
- Brainstem lesions in neurofibromatosis type 1.
- A prospective, blinded analysis of A-PROTEIN (recoverin or CAR protein) levels in pediatric patients with central Nervous system tumors.
- Intensive multimodality treatment for children with newly diagnosed CNS atypical teratoid rhabdoid Tumor.
- Endoscopic biopsy of Brain tumors in children: diagnostic success and utility in guiding treatment strategies.
- Acute intraoperative neurogenic pulmonary edema during endoscopic ventriculoperitoneal shunt revision.
- Urological outcome following multiple repeat Spinal cord untethering operations. Clinical article.
- Integrative genomic analysis of Medulloblastoma identifies a molecular subgroup that drives poor clinical outcome.
- A phase I trial of etanidazole and hyperfractionated radiotherapy in children with diffuse Brainstem glioma.
- The effectiveness of ventriculocystocisternostomy for suprasellar arachnoid cysts.
- Idiopathic syrinx in the pediatric population: a combined center experience.
Schools
University Of Toronto Faculty Of Medicine
St Josephs Hospital University Toronto
University Ottawa
Hospital For Sick Childrn University Toronto
University Of Pennsylvania
Procedures Preformed
- CerebroSpinal Fluid (CSF) Shunt - Insertion, Repair or Removal
- Craniectomy, Craniotomy, Surgery of Skull Base, Neuroendoscopy
Conditions Treated
- Brain and Nervous System Cancer (incl. Gliomas, Astrocytoma, Schwannoma, Medulloblastoma, Chordoma)
- Brain Cancer
- Hydrocephalus
- Spina Bifida
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Doctors Specialties
- Neurosurgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- Boston Magazine
- America's Top Doctors for Cancer
- Fellow (FAANS)
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
Hospital
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Brigham and Women's Hospital -
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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