Dr. John B. Oldershaw M.D.
Neurosurgeon
62 Huntington Court Willowbrook IL, 60527About
Dr. John Oldershaw practices Neurological Surgery in Willowbrook, IL. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Oldershaw 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
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine 1957
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Pseudo tumor cerebri.
- CURRENT CONCEPTS IN NEUROPHYSIOLOGY: NEUROGLIA.
- CURRENT CONCEPTS IN NEUROPHYSIOLOGY: RETICULAR FORMATION AND THE UNSPECIFIC
- THE SURGERY OF BEHAVIOR.
- CURRENT CONCEPTS IN NEUROPHYSIOLOGY: THE PYRAMIDAL TRACT.
- CURRENT CONCEPTS IN NEUROPHYSIOLOGY: PAIN.
- Persistent vegetative state: medical, ethical, religious, economic and legal perspectives.
- Hematoma in the posterior fossa secondary to a tangential gunshot wound of the
- Hydrolase cytochemistry of retrograde neuronal degeneration in feline lateral geniculate body. With observations on the identification of multiple forms of neural hydrolases having overlapping substrate affinities.
- Detailed ultrastructural examination of retrograde degeneration in feline lateral geniculate body.
- Ultrastructural observations on retrograde atrophy of lateral geniculate body. I. Neuronal alterations.
- Bilateral parietal arteriovenous malformations: report of a case.
- Subdural hematomas. I. Acute subdural hematoma: progress in definition, clinical pathology, and therapy.
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