Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, USC School of Medicine
Orthopaedic Surgery
Dr. Vernon T. Tolo, MD
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Vernon Tolo is an expert in the field of Orthopaedic Surgery. She researched medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is a one of the best medicals schools. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is ranked 3/29 in Research/PrimaryCare. She over the years received 2 awards: "Top MD" and "Super Doctor". Vernon Tolo is also a published doctor. She has 99 paper published. The most recent paper is: Variability in measurement of acetabular index in normal and dysplastic hips, before and after reduction.
Publications
- Simple Steps to Minimize Spine Infections in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis.
- Stability and change in 2012.
- Orthopaedic journals and conflict of interest.
- High Long-term Local Control with Sacrectomy for Primary High-grade Bone Sarcoma in Children.
- Pediatric chance fractures: a multicenter perspective.
- Disclosure of conflict of interest.
- Connecting surgeons to focused orthopaedic information.
- Scoliosis and Chiari malformation Type I in children.
- Continuous Infusion of Bupivacaine Reduces Postoperative Morphine Use in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis After Posterior Spine Fusion.
- Complications of halo use in children.
- Shortening of growing-rod spinal instrumentation reverses cardiac failure in child with Marfan syndrome and scoliosis. A case report.
- Use of a noninvasive halo in children.
- Management of infection after instrumented posterior spine fusion in pediatric scoliosis.
- Back pain and backpacks in school children.
- The effect of scoliosis surgery on lung function in the immediate postoperative period.
- Pelvic fractures in children: an exploration of practice patterns and patient outcomes.
- Effect of surgical delay on perioperative complications and need for open reduction in supracondylar humerus fractures in children.
- Childhood diskitis.
- Comparison of proximal and distal rotational femoral osteotomy in children with cerebral palsy.
- Lymphangiomatosis of the spine: two cases requiring surgical intervention.
- Langerhans cell histiocytosis of bone in children and adolescents.
- Thoracoscopic anterior spinal release and fusion: evolution of a faster, improved approach.
- Fracture stability after pinning of displaced supracondylar distal humerus fractures in children.
- The challenges of change: is orthopaedics ready?
- Rib fixation for humeral lengthening following interscapulothoracic resection for malignant tumor.
- Variability in measurement of acetabular index in normal and dysplastic hips, before and after reduction.
- Outcome of hamstring lengthening and distal rectus femoris transfer surgery.
- Femoral nerve palsy following iliacus hematoma.
- Cell Saver: is it beneficial in scoliosis surgery?
- Abduction pillow immobilization following hip surgery: a welcome alternative for selected patients.
- Scoliosis in-brace curve correction and patient preference of CAD/CAM versus plaster molded TLSOs.
- The delay in diagnosis of slipped capital femoral epiphysis: a review of 102 patients.
- Aprotinin in pediatric neuromuscular scoliosis surgery.
- Treatment of multidirectionally unstable supracondylar humeral fractures in children. A modified Gartland type-IV fracture.
- Psoas over the brim lengthenings. Anatomic investigation and surgical technique.
- Soleus neurectomy for dynamic ankle equinus in children with cerebral palsy.
- Tumor management.
- "Perthes-like" changes in a free riding untreated congenital dislocated hip.
- Secondary fractures associated with external fixation in pediatric femur fractures.
- Effect of delay of surgical treatment on rate of infection in open fractures in children.
- The effect of preoperative gait analysis on orthopaedic decision making.
- Impact of postoperative gait analysis on orthopaedic care.
- Orthopaedic treatment of fractures of the long bones and pelvis in children who have multiple injuries.
- A simplified valgus osteotomy of the proximal femur in children.
- Complications of posterior iliac crest bone grafting in spine surgery in children.
- Variability in gait analysis interpretation.
- Radiographic findings and Gs-alpha bioactivity studies and mutation screening in acrodysostosis indicate a different etiology from pseudohypoparathyroidism.
- Operative treatment of supracondylar fractures of the humerus in children. The consequences of pin placement.
- Avoiding paraplegia during anterior spinal surgery. The role of somatosensory evoked potential monitoring with temporary occlusion of segmental spinal arteries.
- Pediatric atlantoaxial instability presenting as cerebral and cerebellar infarcts.
- Measurement of femoral head microcirculation by laser Doppler flowmetry.
- Spinal deformity in short-stature syndromes.
- The incidence and natural history of scoliosis in Rett syndrome.
- External fixation in multiply injured children.
- Vascularized fibular grafts in the treatment of congenital pseudarthrosis of the tibia.
- Radial nerve laceration and retraction associated with a supracondylar fracture of the humerus.
- Surgical treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.
- Unsuspected atlas fracture and instability associated with oropharyngeal injury: case report.
- The characteristics of juvenile idiopathic scoliosis and results of its treatment.
- Surgical treatment of displaced supracondylar fractures of the humerus in children. Analysis of fifty-two cases followed for five to fifteen years.
- The effect of limping on vertebral bone density: a study of children with tarsal coalition.
- Treatment, follow-up, or discharge.
- A comparison of nitroglycerin and nitroprusside for inducing hypotension in children: a double-blind study.
- Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism with spinal cord compression.
- Surgical treatment of kyphosis in achondroplasia.
- Nutritional deficiencies after staged anterior and posterior spinal reconstructive surgery.
- Case report 446. Multicentric, metachronous, low-grade, sclerosing osteogenic sarcoma.
- Painful subluxation of the carpometacarpal joint of the thumb in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
- Unrecognized vascular lesions in war-injured amputees.
- Management of fractured femora in acute amputees. Results of early ambulation in a cast-brace and pylon.
- Evaluation of isolated perfused segments of dog ileum as a means of growing tumor.
- Progression in scoliosis. A 360 degrees change in 75 years.
- Macrodactyly.
- External skeletal fixation in children's fractures.
- Cervical anomaly simulating hangman's fracture in a child. Case report.
- Congenital absence of the menisci and cruciate ligaments of the knee. A case report.
- Recording of the somatosensory evoked potentials during surgery for scoliosis and midline myelotomy to monitor spinal cord function.
- Fractures of the femur in children.
- Immunocytochemical detection of cyclin A and cyclin D in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissues: novel, pertinent markers of cell proliferation.
- Congenital dislocation of the hip.
- Molecular cloning of the human CAK1 gene encoding a cyclin-dependent kinase-activating kinase.
- Outcome of Wisconsin instrumentation in idiopathic scoliosis. Minimum 5-year follow-up.
- Intraosseous infusions: effects on the immature physis--an experimental model in rabbits.
- Identification of a novel cyclin-like protein in human tumor cells.
- G1 expression and multistage dynamics of cyclin A in human osteosarcoma cells.
- The use of shortened periods of rigid postoperative immobilization in the surgical treatment of idiopathic scoliosis.
- Spinal cord monitoring during posterior spinal instrumentation and fusion.
- Peripheral congenital arteriovenous fistulae: observe, operate, or obturate?
- Electrophysiological recordings during spinal surgery.
- Chondromyxoid fibroma of the fibula.
- Increased body weight and decreased radial cross-sectional dimensions in girls with forearm fractures.
- Orthopedics.
- Retroviral vector-mediated transfer of an antisense cyclin G1 construct inhibits osteosarcoma tumor growth in nude mice.
- The effects of fixed and articulated ankle-foot orthoses on gait patterns in subjects with cerebral palsy.
- Wound botulism complicating an open fracture. A case report and review of the literature.
- Sequential and progressive cyclin expression in human osteosarcoma cells - diagnostic and therapeutic implications.
- Early g1 induction of p21/waf1/cip1 in synchronized osteosarcoma cells is independent of p53.
- Molecular-cloning of the human cycg1 gene encoding a g-type cyclin - overexpression in human osteosarcoma cells.
Doctors Specialties
- Orthopaedic Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Top MD
- Super Doctor
Education
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Johns Hopkins University -
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Hospital
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Keck Hospital of USC -
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center -
Huntington Memorial Hospital -
Children's Hospital Los Angeles
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