Dr. Ben Z Roitberg M.D.
Neurosurgeon
1740 W Taylor St Chicago IL, 60612About
Dr. Ben Roitberg practices Neurological Surgery in Chicago, IL. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Roitberg 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
Howard University Medical School
Hadassah Medical School, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,Jerusalem, Israel 1990
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Lentiviral gene transfer to the nonhuman primate brain.
- Field of the future: neurogenic disease.
- Delayed onset of progressive dystonia following subacute 3-nitropropionic acid treatment in Cebus apella monkeys.
- Neurodegeneration prevented by lentiviral vector delivery of GDNF in primate models of Parkinson's disease.
- "Show me the numbers": the application of numbers to medical science.
- Subthalamic glutamic acid decarboxylase gene therapy: changes in motor function and cortical metabolism.
- GDNF-secreting human neural progenitor cells increase tyrosine hydroxylase and VMAT2 expression in MPTP-treated cynomolgus monkeys.
- Clinical and functional outcomes of laminoplasty and laminectomy.
- Permanent cerebrospinal fluid diversion in subarachnoid hemorrhage: Influence of physician practice style.
- Ocular melanoma metastasis to the cervical spine.
- Percutaneous spinal fixation simulation with virtual reality and haptics.
- A novel virtual reality simulation for hemostasis in a brain surgical cavity: perceived utility for visuomotor skills in current and aspiring neurosurgery residents.
- Usefulness of minimum clinically important difference for assessing patients with subaxial degenerative cervical spine disease: statistical versus substantial clinical benefit.
- The impact of obesity on surgeon ratings and patient-reported outcome measures after degenerative cervical spine disease surgery.
- Measuring surgical outcomes in subaxial degenerative cervical spine disease patients: minimum clinically important difference as a tool for determining meaningful clinical improvement.
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