Dr. Michael T Lawton MD
Neurosurgeon
400 Parnassus Ave 405 Irving Street San Francisco CA, 94143About
Dr. Michael T. Lawton is the chief of Vascular Neurosurgery and specializes in the surgical treatment of aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), arteriovenous fistulas, cavernous malformations ...
Education and Training
Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1990
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 1990
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Bow hunter stroke caused by cervical disc herniation. Case report.
- Basilar apex aneurysms: surgical results and perspectives from an initial experience.
- Association between subarachnoid hemorrhage outcomes and number of cases treated at California hospitals.
- Magnetic resonance imaging/spectroscopy of an intraaxial epidermoid: similarity to an abscess. Case illustration.
- Unusual venous drainage of an arteriovenous malformation. Case illustration.
- Spetzler-Martin Grade III arteriovenous malformations: surgical results and a modification of the grading scale.
- Computational approach to quantifying hemodynamic forces in giant cerebral aneurysms.
- Thrombosis of a spinal arteriovenous malformation after hemorrhage: case report.
- Predictors of neurocardiogenic injury after subarachnoid hemorrhage.
- "Tangential" resection of medial temporal lobe arteriovenous malformations with the orbitozygomatic approach.
- Transcranial motor evoked potentials during basilar artery aneurysm surgery: technique application for 30 consecutive patients.
- Regionalization of treatment for subarachnoid hemorrhage: a cost-utility analysis.
- Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage due to coagulation disorders.
- Nonsaccular aneurysms of the azygos anterior cerebral artery.
- Thrombotic intracranial aneurysms: classification scheme and management strategies in 68 patients.
Awards
- 2012 San Francisco Super Doctors
Treatments
- Arteriovenous Malformation, Brain Aneurysm, Stroke And More
- Stroke
- Cerebrovascular Disease
- Birth Defects
- Aneurysm
- Brain Aneurysm
- Lumecca
Fellowships
- St. Joseph's Hospital, Cerbrovascular/Skull Base Surgery 1996
- St. Joseph's Hospital, Neurological Surgery 1997
- St. Joseph's Hospital 1997
- St. Joseph's Hospital, Neurological Surgery 1997
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