Barrow Neurosurgical Associates
Neurosurgery
Dr. Robert F. Spetzler, MD
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Robert Spetzler works in the field of Neurosurgery. He went to Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has a rank of 19 in research and a 29 in primary care He has 8 awards "America's Top Doctors", "Top Doctors:Arizona State", "America's Top Doctors for Cancer", "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Fellow (FACS)", "Super Doctor", "Top MD" and "Fellow (FAANS)". Doctor Robert F. Spetzler, MD is also published. He has 102 publications published. The lastest publication: "History of the current understanding and management of tethered spinal cord.' He accepts Medicare payments and is registered with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- Internal carotid artery-to-posterior cerebral artery bypass for revascularization of the brainstem.
- Importance of Continued Support for Microsurgical Anatomical Studies.
- Propranolol treatment of cavernous malformations with symptomatic hemorrhage.
- Microsurgical Approaches to the Ambient Cistern Region: an Anatomical and Qualitative Study.
- Long-term follow-up of surgical resection of microcystic meningiomas.
- Quantitative study of the opticocarotid and carotid-oculomotor windows for the interpeduncular fossa, before and after internal carotid artery mobilization and posteri...
- Multimodal treatment strategies for complex pediatric cerebral arteriovenous fistulas: contemporary case series at Barrow Neurological Institute.
- Surgical management, outcomes, and recurrence rate of orbital lymphangiomas.
- Quantitative Anatomical Study of Tailored Far-Lateral Approach for the VA-PICA Regions.
- Long-term Functional Outcomes and Predictors of Shunt-Dependent Hydrocephalus After Treatment of Ruptured Intracranial Aneurysms in the BRAT Trial: Revisiting the Clip...
- A Symphony Deconstructed.
- The Role of Microsurgery in the Management of High-Risk Intracranial Dural Arteriovenous Fistulae.
- Repair of intraoperative aneurysm neck tear utilizing the cotton-clipping technique.
- Surgical clipping of a large left middle cerebral artery aneurysm.
- Surgical clipping of a ruptured posterior inferior cerebellar artery aneurysm.
- Microsurgical clipping of an unruptured basilar apex aneurysm.
- The role of microscope-integrated near-infrared indocyanine green videoangiography in the surgical treatment of intracranial dural arteriovenous fistulas.
- Microvascular decompression for hemifacial spasm secondary to vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia: Surgical strategies, technical nuances and clinical outcomes.
- Normal perfusion pressure breakthrough theory: a reappraisal after 35 years.
- Vertebral artery transposition for revascularization of the posterior circulation: a critical assessment of temporary and permanent complications and outcomes.
- Introduction: Strategies for management and outcomes of arteriovenous malformations.
- Contemporary management of spinal AVFs and AVMs: lessons learned from 110 cases.
- Molecular and cellular biology of cerebral arteriovenous malformations: a review of current concepts and future trends in treatment.
- Validation of the Supplemented Spetzler-Martin Grading System for Brain Arteriovenous Malformations in a Multicenter Cohort of 1009 Surgical Patients.
- Conservative management vs intervention for unruptured brain arteriovenous malformations.
- Dealing with the aneurysmal remnants after endovascular treatment.
- Does FLOW 800 Technology Improve the Utility of Indocyanine Green Videoangiography in Cerebral AVM Surgery?
- Microsurgical resection of cervical spinal arteriovenous malformation: the pial resection technique.
- Surgical Considerations for Intraventricular Meningiomas.
- In Reply: Can the Efficacy of Indocyanine Green Videoangiography in Cerebral Arterio-Venous Malformations Surgery be Further Improved?
- Urgent Cerebral Revascularization Bypass Surgery for Iatrogenic Skull Base ICA Injury.
- Lateral inferior cerebellar peduncle approach to dorsolateral medullary cavernous malformation.
- Sulforhodamine 101 selectively labels human astrocytoma cells in an animal model of glioblastoma.
- Optic chiasm compression from mass effect and thrombus formation following unsuccessful treatment of a giant supraclinoid ICA aneurysm with the Pipeline device: open s...
- Clinical and Surgical Experience With the Minipterional Craniotomy.
- Twenty-Year Follow-Up of Flow-Reversal and Revascularization for a Giant Serpentine Basilar Artery Aneurysm.
- Revascularization and pediatric aneurysm surgery.
- Safety, efficacy, and cost of intraoperative indocyanine green angiography compared to intraoperative catheter angiography in cerebral aneurysm surgery.
- Contralateral Interhemispheric Approach to Deep-Seated Cavernous Malformations: Surgical Considerations and Clinical Outcomes in 31 Consecutive Cases.
- Commentary: The ARUBA Trial.
- Management of Brainstem Cavernous Malformations.
- Fellowship training in the United States and Europe.
- Carotid Endarterectomy: Comparison of Complications Between Transverse and Longitudinal Incision.
- Genealogy of training in vascular neurosurgery.
- Revascularization and Aneurysm Surgery: Techniques, Indications and Outcomes in the Endovascular Era.
- Indocyanine Green Angiography in the Surgical Management of Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations: Lessons Learned in 130 Consecutive Cases.
- Advances and innovations in revascularization of extracranial vertebral artery.
- Left retrosigmoid craniotomy for cavernous malformation of the middle cerebellar peduncle.
- The relationship between ruptured aneurysm location, subarachnoid hemorrhage clot thickness, and incidence of radiographic or symptomatic vasospasm in patients enrolle...
- Prospective evaluation of preoperative stereotactic radiosurgery followed by delayed resection of a high grade arteriovenous malformation.
- Robotic Auto-Positioning of the Operating Microscope.
- Neck Tumor Dissection Improved Using Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Image Guidance.
- Diagnostic and surgical implications of ventral vertebrobasilar displacement by posterior fossa neurenteric cysts.
- Avoiding complications after carotid endarterectomy.
- Long-Term Follow-up of Blister Aneurysms of the Internal Carotid Artery.
- The art of basilar apex aneurysm surgery: Is it sustainable in the future?
- The Dilemma of Early Postoperative MRI: When Efficiency Compromises Accuracy.
- Surgical approaches to arteriovenous malformations near the posterior incisura.
- Surgical Outcomes for Moyamoya Angiopathy at Barrow Neurological Institute With Comparison of Adult Indirect Encephaloduroarteriosynangiosis Bypass, Adult Direct Super...
- Endoscopic Surgery of the Posterior Fossa: Strengths and Limitations.
- Electromagnetic stereotactic navigation for external ventricular drain placement in the intensive care unit.
- The Barrow Ruptured Aneurysm Trial: 3-year results.
- Time course of recovery following poor-grade SAH: the incidence of delayed improvement and implications for SAH outcome study design.
- A double-barrel superficial temporal artery-to-superior cerebellar artery (STA-SCA) and STA-to-posterior cerebral artery (STA-PCA) bypass for revascularization of the ...
- Intraoperative fluorescent imaging of intracranial tumors: A review.
- Management of Giant Internal Carotid Artery Aneurysms.
- Training Aneurysm Surgeons in the Modern Era.
- Cerebral revascularization and carotid artery resection at the skull base for treatment of advanced head and neck malignancies.
- Awareness of Potential Treatment Sequelae of Orbital and Periorbital Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas and Arteriovenous Malformations.
- Endovascular Management of Distal ACA Aneurysms: Single-Institution Clinical Experience in 22 Consecutive Patients and Literature Review.
- Aberrant Venous Drainage Pattern in a Medial Sphenoid Wing Dural Arteriovenous Fistula: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.
- Bypass and Flow Reduction for Complex Basilar and Vertebrobasilar Junction Aneurysms.
- Minimally invasive but not at the cost of maximally effective in the surgical removal of brainstem cavernous malformations.
- Extracranial-intracranial Bypass and Vessel Occlusion for the Treatment of Unclippable Giant Middle Cerebral Artery Aneurysms.
- Microsurgical clipping of an unruptured lenticulostriate aneurysm.
- Transfemoral Transarterial Onyx Embolization of Carotid Body Paragangliomas: Technical Considerations, Results and Strategies for Complication Avoidance.
- High-flow bypass and tandem microsurgical-endovascular occlusion of recurrent proximal middle cerebral artery aneurysms in a pediatric patient.
- Long-term clinical and radiographic stability following clip reconstruction of a midbasilar, dissecting mycotic aneurysm.
- The journey of discovering skull base anatomy in ancient Egypt and the special influence of Alexandria.
- Clinical Outcome after Vertebral Artery Injury following Blunt Cervical Spine Trauma.
- Trans-striatocapsular contralateral interhemispheric resection of anterior inferior basal ganglia cavernous malformation.
- A Simple and Quantitative Method to Predict Symptomatic Vasospasm after Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Based on Computed Tomography: Beyond the Fisher Scale.
- Multimodality treatment of conus medullaris arteriovenous malformations: 2 decades of experience with combined endovascular and microsurgical treatments.
- Brainstem Cavernoma Surgery: The State of the Art.
- Reevaluating the imaging definition of tumor progression: perfusion MRI quantifies recurrent glioblastoma tumor fraction, pseudoprogression, and radiation necrosis to ...
- Microsurgical management of glomus spinal arteriovenous malformations: pial resection technique.
- Large hemangiopericytoma associated with arteriovenous malformations and dural arteriovenous fistulae.
- Expanding Neurosurgical Care in Northwest Tanzania: The Early Experience of an Initiative to Teach Neurosurgery at Bugando Medical Centre.
- The discovery of the pyramidal neurons: Vladimir Betz and a new era of neuroscience.
- Survival and Functional Outcome After Surgical Resection of Intramedullary Spinal Cord Metastases.
- Volker K. H. Sonntag M.D.: Pioneer in Spinal Neurosurgery and Consummate Educator, Colleague, and Family Man.
- The Far-Lateral Approach and Its Variations.
- The Barrow Ruptured Aneurysm Trial.
- Current indications for indocyanine green angiography.
- Arteriovenous malformations and associated aneurysms.
- Surgical and Endovascular Treatment of Pediatric Spinal Arteriovenous Malformations.
- The quiet revolution: retractorless surgery for complex vascular and skull base lesions.
- Cerebral cavernous malformations: from genes to proteins to disease.
- Use of in vivo near-infrared laser confocal endomicroscopy with indocyanine green to detect the boundary of infiltrative tumor.
- Techniques and outcomes of Gore-Tex clip-wrapping of ruptured and unruptured cerebral aneurysms.
- History of the current understanding and management of tethered spinal cord.
Schools
Northwestern University Medical School Chicago Il
General Surgery Northwestern University Wesley Memorial Hospital
University of California San Francisco School of Medicine San Francisco CA
Procedures Preformed
- Brain Surgery
- Cardiac Standstill Surgery
- Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Shunt - Insertion, Repair or Removal
- Cerebrovascular Surgery
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Doctors Specialties
- Cerebrovascular Neurosurgery
- Neurological Skull Base Surgery
- Neurosurgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- Top Doctors:Arizona State
- America's Top Doctors for Cancer
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Fellow (FACS)
- Super Doctor
- Top MD
- Fellow (FAANS)
Education
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UCSF -
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Hospital
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St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1104812593 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | SPETZLER | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | ROBERT | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 850134434 | |
| NPPES Provider State | AZ | |
| Specialty Description | Neurosurgery | |
| Total Claim Count | 28.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1104812593 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | SPETZLER |
| First Name Of The Provider | ROBERT |
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