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Scientists Discover a Deadly Brain Cancer’s Hidden Weakness
The difficult-to-treat brain cancer glioblastoma steals a person’s mental faculties as it spreads, yet the tumor’s insidious ability to infiltrate distant networks in the brain could also prove its undoing.
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UCSF’s First Medical Director of Robotic Surgery on Improving Patient Outcomes and Enabling Innovation
Thoracic surgeon Johannes Kratz, MD, has been selected as UCSF’s first medical director of robotic surgery.
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Spine Center
The UCSF Spine Center offers comprehensive management for all disorders of the spine, spinal cord and nerve roots.
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Regenerative Medicine Could Soon Transform Treatment of Musculoskeletal Conditions
UCSF’s Brian Feeley, MD, and Xuhui Liu, MD, in collaboration with Kevin Healy, PhD, received a $1.2 million grant for their lab from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine to continue pursuing their translational research in regenerative medicine.
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Navigation in Spinal Surgery: An Advantageous Tool of the Trade
Shane Burch, MD. Offering tips from his own experience in both complex and minimally invasive procedures, he explains navigation’s benefits – which include reducing radiation exposure, highlighting individual anatomy and supporting tasks such as screw placement – as well as how to avoid common user errors.
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The Misery of Everyday Back Pain: Primary Care Keys to Better Outcomes
Pain specialist Conor W. O’Neill, MD, director of the UCSF Nonoperative Spine Program, presents a straightforward approach to assessing low back pain in primary care, including how to efficiently rule out serious causes and how to recognize the multiple factors – biological, psychological and social – that contribute to pain.
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John de Groot, MD, Named Division Chief of Neuro-Oncology at UCSF
John F. de Groot, MD, has been named the new chief of the Division of Neuro-Oncology within the Department of Neurological Surgery at UC San Francisco.
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Now Open UCSF Neurosurgery Clinic Los Gatos
UCSF is opening a pediatric neurosurgery clinic in Los Gatos, which will provide access to UCSF’s experts in children’s neurologic health, including brain tumors, epilepsy, cerebrovascular disorders, spine disorders and a wide array of other problems.
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A Lesson in Low Back Pain: Locate the Source
Sports medicine specialist Cindy Chang, MD, demos three tests to perform during a lumbar spine exam, to help you readily detect the main cause of discomfort. She also has a tip on what not to overlook.
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Healthcare Reform Spine Surgery: Decision Making Stakeholders Perspectives and Moral Hazard
In this lecture Sigurd Berven, MD, discusses the decision making in complex spinal surgery and how to make informed decisions for the patients, to help them receive the outcomes they are expecting.
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Complex Spine Surgery: Secrets of Successful Closure
Dr. Scott Hansen discusses techniques, options and strategies to stabilize soft tissues and prevent post-op wound complications, even in the most challenging cases.
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Optimize Spinal Surgery Outcomes Through Teamwork
Vascular surgeon Dr. Charles Eichler discusses UCSF’s success with including vascular surgeons in lumbar fusion procedures and finding the least invasive approach for each patient.
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2019-20 Referral Services Guide
UCSF Health is recognized throughout the world for innovative treatments, advanced technology, collaboration among clinicians and scientists, and a highly compassionate team of patient care providers.
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Considerations for Deformity Surgery in the Young Adult
In this presentation Lionel N. Metz, MD, will discuss considerations for the young adult deformity patient, case examples, common pitfalls and modes of failure, and causes of pain after adult reconstruction.
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Approach to the Older Patient with Spinal Disorders: Surgery
Shane Burch, MD, MS, FRCSC, discusses surgical approaches for patients with spinal disorders including the various options to achieve decompression and realignment, stabilizing the patient and obtaining a fusion. The rationales behind these choices are also discussed.
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Awake Spine Surgery
Shorter surgeries result in decreased lengths of stay, faster recovery times and less reliance on narcotics
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Minimally Invasive TLIF; Techniques and Outcomes
Aaron J. Clark, MD, PhD, describes the minimally invasive approaches of transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) and its advantages over open TLIF surgery including the benefits for the obese and elderly, fewer complications and less pain.
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Trigeminal Neuralgia Symptoms and Treatment Options
Edward Chang, MD, describes the symptoms of trigeminal neuralgia, a very serious pain disorder that affects the face and is usually caused by a blood vessel that compresses against the trigeminal nerve.
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Cervical and Thoracolumbar Spinal Deformity Treatment Strategies, Part I: Historic Review
Lee A. Tan, MD, provides a review of past and current treatment strategies for spinal deformities, including breakthroughs such as Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring.
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Cervical and Thoracolumbar Spinal Deformity Treatment Strategies, Part II: Radiographic Parameters
Dr. Lee Tan reviews cervical deformity radiographic parameters, including cervical lordosis, C2-7 sagittal vertical axis, chin-brow vertical angle, T1 slope, thoracic inlet angle and neck tilt.
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Cervical and Thoracolumbar Spinal Deformity Treatment Strategies, Part III: Case Examples
Lee Tan, MD discusses three recent cervical spine and thoracolumbar spinal deformity cases and the surgical interventions used to treat these diverse conditions.
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Neurology and Neurological Surgery Services
Our internationally renowned centers, clinics and programs deliver compassionate clinical care while accelerating advances in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of complex disorders of the brain, spine and peripheral nervous system.
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Awake Spinal Surgery Treatment Options
Praveen Mummaneni, MD, provides an overview of lumbar spondylolisthesis, the advantages and disadvantages of fusion and non-fusion treatment, and outcome data for specific populations, including female, elderly and obese patients.
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Awake Spinal Surgery Case Study
Praveen Mummaneni, MD, presents a lumbar spondylolisthesis case study and discusses the short- and long-term surgical outcomes for minimally invasive and open transforaminal lumbar interbody fusions.
