Laligam Natarajan Sekhar
Neurosurgeon
Harborview Medical Center 325 9th Ave Seattle WA, 98104About
Dr. Sekhar is known around the world for his expertise in treating complex neurosurgical problems, particularly skull base tumors such as acoustic neuromas, meningiomas and chordomas, and complex brain ...
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS- 1986
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Hypothermic circulatory arrest in neurovascular surgery: evolving indications and predictors of patient outcome.
- Profound hypothermia and circulatory arrest with skull base approaches for treatment of complex posterior circulation aneurysms.
- Clinoid and paraclinoid aneurysms: surgical anatomy, operative techniques, and outcome.
- Proposed grading system to predict the extent of resection and outcomes for cranial base meningiomas.
- Subtonsillar-transcerebellomedullary approach to lesions involving the fourth ventricle, the cerebellomedullary fissure and the lateral brainstem.
- Surgical management of cavernous malformations of the brain stem.
- Use of intra-aortic balloon pump counterpulsation for refractory symptomatic vasospasm.
- The rubber dam interposition technique during intracranial aneurysm clipping
- Early arytenoid adduction for vagal paralysis after skull base surgery.
- Occipitocervical fusion following the extreme lateral transcondylar approach.
- Intermittent vertebral artery compression caused by C1-root schwannoma: case report.
- Cerebral revascularization in cranial base tumors.
- Cerebral revascularization using radial artery grafts for the treatment of complex intracranial aneurysms: techniques and outcomes for 17 patients.
- Dural reconstruction with fascia, titanium mesh, and bone screws: technical note.
- Posterior fossa meningiomas: surgical experience in 161 cases.
Fellowships
- Hospital Foch
- Institute of Neurology, National Hospital
- Nordstadt Hospital Hanover
- University Hospital Zurich
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