Professor, Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine
Neurosurgery
Dr. Thomas G. Luerssen, MD
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Thomas Luerssen practices Neurosurgery. He went to Indiana University School of Medicine. Indiana University School of Medicine is ranked 45/47 in Research/PrimaryCare. He over the years received 5 awards: "America's Top Doctors", "Top Doctors:SE Texas", "Fellow (FACS)", "Fellow (FAANS)" and "Fellow (FAAP)". Thomas Luerssen is a published doctor and has 101 publications published. The lastest was: 'Chiari III malformation treated with CSF diversion and delayed surgical closure.'
Publications
- Safety of epidural triamcinolone acetonide use during lumbar decompression surgery in pediatric patients: an association with delayed pseudomeningocele formation.
- Survey of the Effectiveness of Internet Information on Patient Education for Bone Morphogenetic Protein.
- Use of subtransverse process polyester bands in pediatric spine surgery: a case series of 4 patients with a minimum of 12 months' follow-up.
- The feasibility and safety of using sublaminar polyester bands in hybrid Spinal constructs in children and transitional adults for neuromuscular scoliosis.
- Patient-, Procedure-, and Hospital-Related Risk Factors of Allogeneic and Autologous Blood Transfusion in Pediatric Spinal Fusion Surgery in the United States.
- Surgical treatment of congenital thoracolumbar spondyloptosis in a 2-year-old child with Vertebral column resection and posterior-only circumferential reconstruction o...
- CerebroSpinal fluid shunt placement in the pediatric population: a model of hospitalization cost.
- Soft-tissue defects after Spinal instrumentation in 5 children: risk factors, management strategies, and outcomes.
- Letters to the Editor: Challenges in identifying endoscopic third ventriculostomy.
- Nationwide practice patterns in the use of recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 in pediatric spine surgery as a function of patient-, hospital-, and procedur...
- A standardized protocol to reduce pediatric spine surgery infection: a quality improvement initiative.
- Factors associated with ventricular catheter movement and inaccurate catheter location: post hoc analysis of the Hydrocephalus Clinical Research Network Ultrasound-Gui...
- Utility of computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging evaluation of ventricular morphology in suspected cerebroSpinal fluid shunt malfunction.
- Multilevel thoracic hemangioma with Spinal cord compression in a pediatric patient: case report and review of the literature.
- Assessment of the impact of comorbidities on perioperative complications in pediatric neurosurgery.
- Infected lumbar dermoid cyst mimicking intramedullary Spinal cord tumor: Observations and outcomes.
- Osteosarcoma of the cranial vault and skull base in pediatric patients.
- Spondylolysis of C-2 in children 3 years of age or younger: clinical presentation, radiographic findings, management, and outcomes with a minimum 12-month follow-up.
- No significant improvement in the rate of accurate ventricular catheter location using ultrasound-guided CSF shunt insertion: a prospective, controlled study by the Hy...
- A Review of the Neurological and Neurosurgical Implications of Tuberculosis in Children.
- Management of ruptured dissecting intracranial aneurysms in infants: report of four cases and review of the literature.
- Correlation between shunt series and scoliosis radiographs in children with myelomeningoceles.
- Outcomes of instrumented fusion in the pediatric cervical spine.
- Aqueductal developmental venous anomaly as an unusual cause of congenital hydrocephalus: a case report and review of the literature.
- Prevention and management of positional skull deformities in infants.
- Left thorascopic sympathectomy for refractory long QT syndrome in children.
- A clinicopathologic correlation in osteoblastoma of the spine in a child.
- Amenorrhea complicating endoscopic third ventriculostomy in the pediatric age group.
- Publication patterns of oral and poster presentations at the annual meetings of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons and the American Association of Neurological Surg...
- Kyphectomy in patients with myelomeningocele treated with pedicle screw-only constructs: case reports and review.
- A standardized protocol to reduce cerebroSpinal fluid shunt infection: the Hydrocephalus Clinical Research Network Quality Improvement Initiative.
- Solid variant of aneurysmal bone cyst of the thoracic spine: a case report.
- Minimally invasive lumbar microdiscectomy in pediatric patients: a series of 6 patients.
- Intraoperative monitoring of motor evoked potentials in very young children.
- Computed tomography morphometric analysis for translaminar screw fixation in the upper thoracic spine of the pediatric population.
- The Effect of Tethered Cord Release on Coronal Spinal Balance in Tight Filum Terminale.
- Routine use of recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 in posterior fusions of the pediatric spine: safety profile and efficacy in the early postoperative period.
- Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome during posterior fossa tumor resection in a child.
- Effectiveness of a clinical pathway for patients with cerebroSpinal fluid shunt malfunction.
- The high risks of ventriculoperitoneal shunt procedures for hydrocephalus associated with vein of Galen malformations in childhood: case report and literature review.
- Hybrid Spinal constructs using sublaminar polyester bands in posterior instrumented fusions in children: a series of 5 cases.
- Video-assisted thorascopic repair of a subarachnoid-pleural fistula in a child after thoracic tumor resection: technical note.
- Medulloblastoma and juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma presenting as synchronous primary brain Tumors in a child: case report.
- Endovascular stenting of traumatic extracranial carotid artery dissections in the pediatric population: a case report.
- "Orthotopic" ossiculum terminale persistens and atlantoaxial instability in a child less than 12 years of age: a case report and review of the literature.
- A multicenter retrospective comparison of conversion from temporary to permanent cerebroSpinal fluid diversion in very low birth weight infants with posthemorrhagic hy...
- Primary disseminated intradural malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor of the spine in a child: case report and review of the literature.
- Malignant rhabdoid tumor of the spine in an infant: case report and review of the literature.
- Transient selective downward gaze paralysis complicating posterior fossa tumor resection in children. Report of 2 cases.
- Use of lumbar drainage of cerebroSpinal fluid for brain relaxation in occipital lobe approaches in children: technical note.
- Use of axial and subaxial translaminar screw fixation in the management of upper cervical Spinal instability in a series of 7 children.
- Postlaminoplasty kyphotic Deformity in the thoracic spine: case report and review of the literature.
- Computed tomography morphometric analysis for axial and subaxial translaminar screw placement in the pediatric cervical spine.
- Transtubular microendoscopic approach for resection of a choroidal arteriovenous malformation.
- Periosteal chondroma of the pediatric cervical spine.
- Computed tomography morphometric analysis for C-1 lateral mass screw placement in children. Clinical article.
- Long-term follow-up of solitary intracerebral juvenile xanthogranuloma. Case report and review of the literature.
- Translaminar screw fixation in the subaxial pediatric cervical spine.
- Routine imaging in patients with ventriculopleural shunts: lessons learned from a case of tension hydrothorax.
- Pneumothorax complicating "in-out-in" thoracic pedicle screw placement for kyphotic Deformity correction in a child.
- Diagnosing cranial fasciitis based on distinguishing radiological features.
- Extracranial traumatic carotid artery dissections in children: a review of current diagnosis and treatment options.
- Prediction of cognitive sequelae based on abnormal computed tomography findings in children following mild traumatic brain injury.
- Brain herniation through an internal subdural membrane: a rare complication seen with chronic subdural hematomas in children. Case report.
- Interaction of ventriculoperitoneal shunt and baclofen pump.
- Treatment of the occult tethered Spinal cord for neuropathic bladder: results of sectioning the filum terminale.
- Phase II study of high-dose chemotherapy before radiation in children with newly diagnosed high-grade astrocytoma: final analysis of Children's Cancer Group Study 9933.
- "Keystone" approach for intracranial nasofrontal dermoid sinuses.
- A pilot study of preirradiation chemotherapy and 1800 cGy cranioSpinal irradiation in young children with medulloblastoma.
- Hypothermia on admission in patients with severe brain injury.
- Intercenter variance in clinical trials of head trauma--experience of the National Acute Brain Injury Study: Hypothermia.
- Shunt infection and malfunction after augmentation cystoplasty.
- Evaluation and management of children younger than two years old with apparently minor head trauma: proposed guidelines.
- Lack of effect of induction of hypothermia after acute brain injury.
- Tumor-related epilepsy in children.
- Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) distinguishes seizure types.
- Arachnoid cyst rupture with concurrent subdural hygroma.
- Phase II evaluation of interferon-alpha-2a for progressive or recurrent Craniopharyngiomas.
- Neurological injuries in infants and children: an overview of current management strategies.
- Severe pediatric head injury: myth, magic, and actual fact. Concerning the article by Johnson and Krishnamurthy. Pediatr Neurosurg 1998;28:167-172.
- Brain tissue pressure gradients are dependent upon a normal Spinal subarachnoid space.
- Chiari III malformation treated with CSF diversion and delayed surgical closure.
- Back pain in an 8-year-old boy.
- Intracranial pressure: current status in monitoring and management.
- Regional brain tissue pressure gradients created by expanding extradural temporal mass lesion.
- Behavioural adjustment and parental stress associated with closed head injury in children.
- Brain tissue pressure gradients created by expanding frontal epidural mass lesion.
- Cloacal exstrophy: the neurological implications.
- Outcome from pediatric head injury: on the nature of prospective and retrospective studies. 1989.
- Position statement on identifying the infant with nonaccidental central nervous system injury (the whiplash-shake syndrome). The American Society of Pediatric Neurosur...
- Severe head injury in children: experience of the Traumatic Coma Data Bank.
- The diagnosis of head injury requires a classification based on computed axial tomography.
- Diffuse brain swelling in severely head-injured children. A report from the NIH Traumatic Coma Data Bank.
- Head injuries in children.
- Intramedullary secretory gangliocytoma.
- Magnetic resonance imaging diagnosis of a cerebral aneurysm in an infant. Case report and review of the literature.
- Determinants of head injury mortality: importance of the low risk patient.
- MR imaging of brain contusions: a comparative study with CT.
- Outcome from head injury related to patient's age. A longitudinal prospective study of adult and pediatric head injury.
- Loss of intraoperative evoked responses during dorsal Column surgery associated with isolated postoperative sensory deficit.
Schools
Indiana University School of Medicine
Ind University Hosps
Ind University Hospital
Children39s Hospital Of Philadelphia
Conditions Treated
- Chiari's Deformity
- Craniopharyngioma
- Spina Bifida
- Vertebral Column Tumors
Doctors Specialties
- Neurosurgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- Top Doctors:SE Texas
- Fellow (FACS)
- Fellow (FAANS)
- Fellow (FAAP)
Education
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Children's Hospital of Philadelphia -
Indiana University School of Medicine
Hospital
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Texas Children's Hospital
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