Associate Professor, Neurosurgery, Washington University School of Medicine
Neurosurgery
Dr. Matthew D. Smyth, MD
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Matthew Smyth practices Neurosurgery. He attended University of California San Francisco School of Medicine. University of California San Francisco School of Medicine is a top medical university. University of California San Francisco School of Medicine is ranked 3/3 in Research/PrimaryCare. He received awards:"Regional Top Doctor", "Fellow (FAAP)", "Fellow (FAANS)" and "Fellow (FACS)". Matthew D. Smyth is a published doctor. He has 101 publications published. The most current publication "Osteoblast differentiation profiles define sex specific gene expression patterns in craniosynostosis."
Publications
- The Chiari severity index: a preoperative grading system for Chiari Malformation type 1.
- Osteoblast differentiation profiles define sex specific gene expression patterns in craniosynostosis.
- Surgical management of complex multiloculated Hydrocephalus in infants and children.
- Effects of open and endoscopic surgery on skull growth and calvarial vault volumes in sagittal synostosis.
- Tonsillar pulsatility before and after surgical decompression for children with Chiari Malformation type 1: an application for true fast imaging with steady state prec...
- Are Endoscopic and Open Treatments of Metopic Synostosis Equivalent in Treating Trigonocephaly and Hypotelorism?
- Endoscopic-assisted Treatment of Sagittal Craniosynostosis and Calcified CephaloHematoma.
- Characterization of postoperative fevers after hemispherotomy.
- Developing the Pediatric Refractory Epilepsy Questionnaire: A pilot study.
- Calvarial thickness and diploic space development in children with sagittal synostosis as assessed by computed tomography.
- Management of children with mild traumatic Brain injury and intracranial hemorrhage.
- External validation of the Chicago Chiari Outcome Scale.
- Comparison of posterior fossa decompression with or without duraplasty in children with Type I Chiari Malformation.
- Greater Extent of Resection Improves Ganglioglioma Recurrence-free Survival in Children: A Volumetric Analysis.
- Assessing Long-Term Outcomes of Open and Endoscopic Sagittal Synostosis Reconstruction Using Three-Dimensional Photography.
- The path of the superior sagittal sinus in unicoronal synostosis.
- Pseudopapilledema and association with idiopathic intracranial hypertension.
- Outcomes Following Anterior or Complete Corpus Callosotomy in Children.
- Palliative Epilepsy surgery in Aicardi syndrome: a case series and review of literature.
- Health-related quality of life before and after pediatric Epilepsy surgery: The influence of seizure outcome on changes in physical functioning and social functioning.
- Biopsy of the Superficial Cortex: Predictors of Effectiveness and Outcomes.
- Mild passive focal cooling prevents epileptic Seizures after head injury in rats.
- Surgical management of symptomatic Chiari II Malformation in infants and children.
- Gamma knife surgery for a hemangioma of the cavernous sinus in a child.
- Recurrent pleural effusion without intrathoracic migration of ventriculoperitoneal shunt catheter: a case report.
- Characterization of the Supplementary Motor Area Syndromeand Seizure Outcome Following Medial Frontal Lobe Resections in Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery.
- Focal cooling devices for the surgical treatment of Epilepsy.
- OligodendroGliomas in children.
- Endoscopically assisted versus open repair of sagittal craniosynostosis: the St. Louis Children's Hospital experience.
- Resting-state activity in development and maintenance of normal Brain function.
- Preventing Cerebrospinal fluid leak following transection of a tight filum terminale.
- Decoding motor signals from the pediatric cortex: implications for Brain-computer interfaces in children.
- Radiation therapy for pilocytic Astrocytomas of childhood.
- Patients with Chiari Malformation Type I presenting with acute neurological deficits: case series.
- Extratemporal, nonlesional Epilepsy in children: postsurgical clinical and neurocognitive outcomes.
- Glioblastoma in Children: A Single-Institution Experience.
- Idiopathic syrinx in the pediatric population: a combined center experience.
- Complete versus anterior two-thirds corpus callosotomy in children: analysis of outcome.
- Neurosurgical treatment of progressive posthemorrhagic ventricular dilation in preterm infants: a 10-year single-institution study.
- Copy number variation analysis in single-suture craniosynostosis: multiple rare variants including RUNX2 duplication in two cousins with metopic craniosynostosis.
- Comparison of perceptions and treatment practices between neurosurgeons and plastic surgeons for infants with deformational plagiocephaly.
- Preoperative sensorimotor mapping in Brain tumor patients using spontaneous fluctuations in neuronal activity imaged with functional magnetic resonance imaging: initia...
- Hemispherotomy: efficacy and analysis of Seizure recurrence.
- Epilepsy surgery in children with seizures arising from the rolandic cortex.
- Early results of the Ponseti method for the treatment of clubfoot associated with myelomeningocele.
- Spontaneous resolution of Chiari Malformation Type I in monozygotic twins.
- Electrophysiological correlates of the Brain's intrinsic large-scale functional architecture.
- Ossified pseudomeningocele following Chiari decompression surgery in a patient with Kleeblattschädel deformity.
- Loss of resting interhemispheric functional connectivity after complete section of the corpus callosum.
- Adverse facial edema associated with off-label use of recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 in cranial reconstruction for craniosynostosis. Case report.
- Iatrogenic intradural epidermoid cyst after lumbar puncture. Case illustration.
- Radiosurgical posterior corpus callosotomy in a child with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. Case report.
- Hydrogel-induced cervicomedullary compression after posterior fossa decompression for Chiari Malformation. Case report.
- Isolated sagittal and coronal craniosynostosis associated with TWIST box mutations.
- Outcome following surgery for temporal lobe Epilepsy with hippocampal involvement in preadolescent children: emphasis on mesial temporal sclerosis.
- Giant intracranial teratoma with epignathus in a neonate. Case report and review of the literature.
- Complications of invasive Subdural electrode monitoring at St. Louis Children's Hospital, 1994-2005.
- The "clamshell" craniotomy technique in treating sagittal craniosynostosis in older children.
- Pediatric neurosurgical injuries associated with all-terrain vehicle accidents: a 10-year experience at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
- Simultaneous image-guided and endoscopic navigation without rigid cranial fixation: application in infants: technical case report.
- Transcortical cooling inhibits hippocampal-kindled Seizures in the rat.
- Early programmable valve malfunctions in pediatric Hydrocephalus.
- Focal cooling for Epilepsy: an alternative therapy that might actually work.
- Use of rapid-sequence magnetic resonance imaging for evaluation of Hydrocephalus in children.
- Magnetic resonance imaging evidence of posterior pharynx denervation in pediatric patients with Chiari I Malformation and absent gag reflex.
- Sports and pediatric Cerebrospinal fluid shunts: who can play?
- Intramedullary Hemorrhage in a neonate after lumbar puncture resulting in paraplegia: a case report.
- Efficacy of scheduled nonnarcotic analgesic medications in children after suboccipital craniectomy.
- Anatomic landmarks for the cervical portion of the thoracic duct.
- Cutaneous manifestations and the Chiari I Malformation.
- Complications of chronic vagus nerve stimulation for Epilepsy in children.
- Chiari I Malformation and cloacal exstrophy: report of a patient with both defects of blastogenesis.
- Human horns: a historical review and clinical correlation.
- Atlantoaxial interlaminar distances in cervical flexion in children.
- Focal cooling suppresses spontaneous epileptiform activity without changing the cortical motor threshold.
- Stereotactic radiosurgery for pediatric intracranial Arteriovenous malformations: the University of California at San Francisco experience.
- Implementation and preliminary clinical experience with the use of ceiling mounted mobile high field intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging between two operating ro...
- Cumulative diagnostic radiation exposure in children with ventriculoperitoneal shunts: a review.
- Parietal cephalocele.
- Duplication of the massa intermedia in a child.
- Complications of ventriculosubgaleal shunts in infants and children.
- Arachnoid veils and the Chiari I Malformation.
- Exclusive lower extremity mirror movements and diastematomyelia.
- Distances from the atlantal segment of the vertebral artery to the midline in children.
- Eyebrow incision with supraorbital trephination for endoscopic corpus callosotomy: a feasibility study.
- Endoscopic third ventriculostomy for hydrocephalus secondary to central Nervous system infection or intraventricular hemorrhage in children.
- Children with growth hormone deficiency and Chiari I Malformation: a morphometric analysis of the posterior cranial fossa.
- Alternative uses for the subgaleal shunt in pediatric neurosurgery.
- Chiari I Malformation and caudal regression syndrome: a previously unreported association.
- Parietal foramina are not synonymous with giant parietal foramina.
- Effects of antiepileptic drugs on induced epileptiform activity in a rat model of dysplasia.
- Late gestational intrauterine myelomeningocele repair does not improve lower extremity function.
- Anomalous traversement of the suprascapular artery through the suprascapular notch: a possible mechanism for undiagnosed shoulder pain?
- Life expectancy of ventriculosubgaleal shunt revisions.
- Hemihypertrophy and the Chiari I Malformation.
- Intracranial ependymomas of childhood: current management strategies.
- Metastatic spinal ependymoma presenting as a vestibular Schwannoma. Case illustration.
- Unique cortical physiology associated with ipsilateral hand movements and neuroprosthetic implications.
- The effect of age on human motor electrocorticographic signals and implications for Brain-computer interface applications.
- Selective posterior rhizotomy and intrathecal baclofen for the treatment of spasticity.
Schools
University Of California San Francisco School Of Medicine
University Of California Irvine Medical Center
Ucsf Medical Center
University Of Alabama Hospital
Cornell University
Procedures Preformed
- Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Shunt - Insertion, Repair or Removal
- Craniectomy, Craniotomy, Surgery of Skull Base, Neuroendoscopy
- Deep Brain Stimulation
- Dural Repair or Other Spinal Spinal Cord Repair
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Conditions Treated
- Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM) Brain
- Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM) Spine
- Birth Defects
- Brain and Nervous System Cancer (incl. Gliomas, Astrocytoma, Schwannoma, Medulloblastoma, Chordoma)
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Doctors Specialties
- Neurosurgery
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna HMO
- Choice Plus POS II
- Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO
- Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO
- Blue Preferred Plus POS
- Blue Preferred Select
- Blue Card PPO
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois PPO
- Group Employees PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- LocalPlus
- Open Access Plus
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- Golden Rule
- HealthLink PPO
- Homestate Health Plan
- Choice Care PPO
- Medicaid
- Medicare MCR
- Molina
- MultiPlan PPO
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- United Healthcare
Awards
- Regional Top Doctor
- Fellow (FAAP)
- Fellow (FAANS)
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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UCSF -
University of California Irvine -
University of California San Francisco School of Medicine
Hospital
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Barnes-Jewish Hospital -
St. Louis Children's Hospital
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