Dr. Mary Louise Hlavin M.D.
Neurosurgeon
1026 A Avenue Ne Suite 5000 Cedar Rapids IA, 52402Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Mary Hlavin practices Neurological Surgery in Cedar Rapids, IA. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Hlavin 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
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine 1985
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Neurite growth on different substrates: permissive versus instructive influences and the role of adhesive strength.
- A "PICA communicating artery" aneurysm: case report.
- Molecular structure and functional testing of human L1CAM: an interspecies comparison.
- Spinal epidural abscess: a ten-year perspective.
- Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland: a neurosurgical chronicle.
- The effect of neurotrophin-5 on the growth and survival of nigral grafts in a rat model of Parkinson's disease.
- In vivo effects of kFGF on embryonic nigral grafts in a rat model of Parkinson's disease.
- Functional and anatomical reconstruction of the 6-hydroxydopamine lesioned nigrostriatal system of the adult rat.
- The neurotrophin NT4/5, but not NT3, enhances the efficacy of nigral grafts in a rat model of Parkinson's disease.
- Harvey Cushing and Claude Beck: a surgical legacy.
- Bridge grafts of fibroblast growth factor-4-secreting schwannoma cells promote functional axonal regeneration in the nigrostriatal pathway of the adult rat.
- Primary intrinsic brainstem oligodendroglioma in an adult. Case report and review of the literature.
- Adhesion molecules and inherited diseases of the human nervous system.
- Extramedullary hematopoiesis causing paraparesis in congenital cyanotic heart disease.
- Role of L1 in neural development: what the knockouts tell us.
Treatments
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Spondylolisthesis
- Back Pain
- Sciatica
- Scoliosis
- Pinched Nerve
- Herniated Disc
- Spinal Stenosis
- Degenerative Disc Disease (ddd)
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