Dr. Ricardo H Brau M.D.
Neurosurgeon
400 Ave Fd Roosevelt San Juan PR, 00918About
Dr. Ricardo Brau practices Neurological Surgery in San Juan, PR. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Brau 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
University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine 1975
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Carotid endarterectomy in Puerto Rico.
- Assessment of the educational experience in the Neurosurgery Residency Program of the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus.
- Reflections on knowledge and wisdom in neurosurgery.
- Babinski's signe de l'eventail: a turning point in the history of neurology.
- Carotid artery restenosis in a Hispanic population.
- Descriptive profile of surgically-confirmed adult central nervous system tumors in Puerto Rico.
- Stereotactic radiosurgery for intracranial tumors: Puerto Rico experience.
- A 10-year experience of radiosurgical treatment for cerebral arteriovenous malformations: a perspective from a series with large malformations. Clinical article.
- Experience in the management of myelomeningocele in Puerto Rico.
- [Meningomyelocele in Puerto Rico].
- Surgical treatment of cerebral ischemia.
- Recent experiences in the surgical treatment of cerebral ischemia: twenty-six months period.
- Cerebrospinal fluid ascorbic acid levels in neurological disorders.
- Sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy (Rosai-Dorfman disease) and extranodal involvement of the orbit.
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