Dr. David M Frim MD
Neurosurgeon
180 Harvester Dr Suite 110 Willowbrook IL, 60527Rating
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Dr. David Frim practices Neurological Surgery in Willowbrook, IL. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Frim 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 1988
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Management of cavernous malformations in the pediatric population.
- Endoscopic approach to noncommunicating fluid spaces in the shunted patient.
- Delayed repair of open depressed skull fracture.
- A child with neurofibromatosis-1 and a lumbar epidural arteriovenous malformation.
- A theoretical model of benign external hydrocephalus that predicts a predisposition towards extra-axial hemorrhage after minor head trauma.
- Telemetric assessment of intracranial pressure changes consequent to manipulations of the Codman-Medos programmable shunt valve.
- Measurements of intraventricular pressure in a patient shunted from the ventricle to the internal jugular vein against the direction of blood flow (the El-Shafei shunt).
- Gene therapy for Parkinson's disease.
- A single-incision laparoscopic technique for retrieval and replacement of disconnected ventriculoperitoneal shunt tubing found in the peritoneum.
- Lumboperitoneal shunting as a treatment for slit ventricle syndrome.
- Decompressive hemicraniectomy in a 6-year-old male after unilateral hemispheric stroke. Case report and review.
- Recurrence of symptoms after Chiari decompression and duraplasty with nonautologous graft material.
- High-resolution EEG: cortical potential imaging of interictal spikes.
- Synthes Award for Resident Research in Brain and Craniofacial Injury: poloxamer 188 volumetrically decreases neuron loss in the rat model of excitotoxicity in a time-dependent manner.
- Initial endoscopic management of pineal region tumors and associated hydrocephalus: clinical series and literature review.
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