Dr. Frederick George Barker MD
Neurosurgeon
55 Fruit Street Yaw 9e Boston MA, 02114Rating
5/5
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Dr. Frederick Barker practices Neurological Surgery in Boston, MA. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Barker prevents, diagnoses, evaluates, and treats disorders of the autonomic, peripheral, and central nervous systems. Neurological Surgeons are trained to treat such disorders as spinal canal stenosis, herniated discs, tumors, fractures, and spinal deformities, among many others.
Education and Training
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1985
Harvard Medical School 1985
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Myometrial zonal differentiation and uterine junctional zone hyperplasia in the non-pregnant uterus.
- Role of radiosurgery in the management of central nervous system metastases.
- Adjunctive use of endoscopy during acoustic neuroma surgery.
- Analysis of complex relationships between age, p53, epidermal growth factor receptor, and survival in glioblastoma patients.
- Efficacy of prophylactic antibiotic therapy in spinal surgery: a meta-analysis.
- Microvascular decompression surgery in the United States, 1996 to 2000: mortality rates, morbidity rates, and the effects of hospital and surgeon volumes.
- In-hospital morbidity and mortality after endovascular treatment of unruptured intracranial aneurysms in the United States, 1996-2000: effect of hospital and physician volume.
- Transsphenoidal surgery for pituitary tumors in the United States, 1996-2000: mortality, morbidity, and the effects of hospital and surgeon volume.
- Surgery for Parkinson disease in the United States, 1996 to 2000: practice patterns, short-term outcomes, and hospital charges in a nationwide sample.
- Superior semicircular canal dehiscence syndrome. Case report.
- Does intracisternal thrombolysis prevent vasospasm after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage? A meta-analysis.
- In-hospital mortality rates after ventriculoperitoneal shunt procedures in the United States, 1998 to 2000: relation to hospital and surgeon volume of care.
- Craniotomy for the resection of metastatic brain tumors in the U.S., 1988-2000: decreasing mortality and the effect of provider caseload.
- Craniotomy for resection of pediatric brain tumors in the United States, 1988 to 2000: effects of provider caseloads and progressive centralization and specialization of care.
- Changing neurosurgical workload in the United States, 1988-2001: craniotomy other than trauma in adults.
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