Professor, Neurosurgery, Louisiana State University School of Medicine, Shreveport
Neurosurgery
Dr. Brian K. Willis, MD
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Brian Willis works in the field of Neurosurgery. He went to medical school at Louisiana State University School of Medicine in Shreveport. He has 2 awards "Fellow (FACS)" and "Fellow (FAANS)". Brian Willis is a published MD as well. He has 49 publications published. The latest was: Treatment in patients with glioblastoma multiforme and poor performance status: is it worthwhile?
Publications
- Posthemorrhagic Hydrocephalus and shunts: what are the predictors of multiple revision surgeries?
- How bullet trajectory affects outcomes of civilian gunshot injury to the Spine.
- Cerebellar lesion.
- Role of stereotactic radiosurgery as a primary treatment option in the management of newly diagnosed multiple (3-6) intracranial metastases.
- Diffuse Back pain and urological symptoms: recognizing tethered cord syndrome early.
- Survival trends in elderly patients with glioblastoma multiforme: resective surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy.
- Gamma knife radiosurgery for trigeminal neuralgia: a study of predictors of success, efficacy, safety, and outcome at LSUHSC.
- Gamma knife surgery in the management of Brain metastases from lung carcinoma: a retrospective analysis of survival, local tumor control, and freedom from new Brain me...
- A case report of complete disappearance of essential tremor after Gamma Knife radiosurgery.
- Management of carotid Artery injuries: Louisiana State University Shreveport experience.
- Selective intraoperative angiography in intracranial Aneurysm surgery: intraoperative factors associated with Aneurysmal remnants and vessel occlusions.
- First 100 cases of gamma knife radiosurgery in Louisiana: analysis of demographics and early results.
- Stereotactic interstitial brachytherapy of malignant Astrocytomas with remarks on postimplantation computed tomographic appearance.
- Disease course and late sequelae of Langerhans' cell histiocytosis: 25-year experience at the University of California, San Francisco.
- Management of a large skull defect utilizing a vascularized free omental transfer.
- Inadvertent use of ionic contrast material in myelography: case report and management guidelines.
- Acute postmyelographic neurological deterioration.
- Civilian cranioCerebral gunshot wounds.
- Pediatric Spinal blastomycosis: case report.
- Treatment of Brain metastasis in patients with significant impairment of consciousness.
- Fatal air bag mediated cranioCervical trauma in a child.
- Pathological evaluation of intervertebral disc tissue specimens after routine Cervical and lumbar decompression. A cost-benefit analysis retrospective study.
- Ventriculoperitoneal shunt complications in Hydrocephalus patients with intracranial tumors: an analysis of relevant risk factors.
- The incidence of vertebral Artery injury after midcervical spine fracture or subluxation.
- Late presentation of tethered Spinal cord in a 73-year-old patient.
- Hematoma of the ligamentum flavum in the lumbar Spine: case report.
- Burr-hole versus twist-drill drainage for the evacuation of chronic subdural haematoma: a comparison of clinical results.
- Metastatic gastrointestinal Cancer compressing the spinal cord or cauda equina.
- Congenital Chiari malformations.
- Differential cyclooxygenase-2 enzyme expression in radiosensitive versus radioresistant glioblastoma multiforme cell lines.
- Stroke in the young: relationship of active cocaine use with stroke mechanism and outcome.
- Predictive factors for dural tear and Cerebrospinal fluid leakage in patients undergoing lumbar surgery.
- Metastatic Disease in the cerebellum. The LSU experience in 1981-1993.
- IntraSpinal synovial cysts: a retrospective study.
- Intracranial Aneurysms and cocaine abuse: analysis of prognostic indicators.
- Infection rate with replacement of bone fragment in compound depressed skull Fractures.
- Congenital Hydrocephalus and ventriculoperitoneal shunts: influence of etiology and programmable shunts on revisions.
- Assessment of Pain control, quality of life, and predictors of success after gamma knife surgery for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia.
- Influence of cocaine on ruptured intracranial Aneurysms: a case control study of poor prognostic indicators.
- Complications of posterior cranial fossa surgery--an institutional experience of 500 patients.
- Ventricular reservoirs and ventriculoperitoneal shunts for premature infants with posthemorrhagic Hydrocephalus: an institutional experience.
- Maxillary sinus Cancer and metastatic compression of the cauda equina: report of two cases.
- Treatment in patients with glioblastoma multiforme and poor performance status: is it worthwhile?
- Management of epidural cauda equina disease of prostate Cancer by radiotherapy.
- Gamma knife radiosurgery for Brain metastases: do patients benefit from adjuvant external-beam radiotherapy? An 18-month comparative analysis.
- Metastatic lesions involving the sella: report of three cases and review of the literature.
- Idiopathic primary pan intra-ventricular Hemorrhage in a child.
- Ventriculosubgaleal shunts for posthemorrhagic Hydrocephalus in premature infants.
Schools
Louisiana State University Health Shreveport School of Medicine
Lsu Mc
University of Utah
Procedures Preformed
- CerebroSpinal Fluid (CSF) Shunt - Insertion, Repair or Removal
- Craniectomy, Craniotomy, Surgery of Skull Base, Neuroendoscopy
- Dural Repair or Other Spinal Spinal Cord Repair
- Herniated Disc Surgery
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Conditions Treated
- Acoustic Neuroma
- Brain and Nervous System Cancer (incl. Gliomas, Astrocytoma, Schwannoma, Medulloblastoma, Chordoma)
- Brain Aneurysm
- Brain Cancer
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Doctors Specialties
- Neurosurgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FACS)
- Fellow (FAANS)
Education
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University of Utah -
Louisiana State University -
Louisiana State University School of Medicine in Shreveport
Hospital
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University Health Shreveport