Dr. Brian Thomas Ragel M.D.
Neurosurgeon
3303 Sw Bond Ave Mail Code: Ch8n Portland OR, 97239About
Dr. Brian Ragel practices Neurological Surgery in Portland, OR. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Ragel 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.
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Inhibition of hypoxia inducible factor-1alpha (HIF-1alpha) decreases vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) secretion and tumor growth in malignant gliomas.
- Can surgery improve neurological function in penetrating spinal injury? A review of the military and civilian literature and treatment recommendations for military neurosurgeons.
- Introduction: military neurosurgery, past and present.
- Pediatric neurosurgery during Operation Enduring Freedom.
- Laparoscopic-induced pneumocephalus in a patient with a ventriculoperitoneal shunt.
- Late occurrence of drop metastasis to the spine in a case of esthesioneuroblastoma.
- Decompressive craniectomy in a neurologically devastated pregnant woman to maintain fetal viability.
- Metastatic renal cell carcinoma to the third ventricle resembling a colloid cyst.
- Timing of cranioplasty after decompressive craniectomy for trauma.
- Severe Pediatric Head Injury During the Iraq and Afghanistan Conflicts.
- Imaging characteristic analysis of metastatic spine lesions from breast, prostate, lung, and renal cell carcinomas for surgical planning: Osteolytic versus osteoblastic.
- Instrumentation for intraoperative measurement of cervical spine stiffness.
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