Dr. John R Ruge M.D.
Neurosurgeon
1875 Dempster St Suite 605 Park Ridge IL, 60068About
Dr. John Ruge has an outstanding national reputation as both a pediatric and adult neurosurgeon. Areas of expertise include complex pediatric and adult brain tumors, spinal tumors, Chiari malformations ...
Education and Training
Northwestern Uniiversity 1983
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Use of 5-aminolevulinic acid for visualization and resection of a benign pediatric brain tumor.
- Mineralization of the falx cerebri simulating interhemispheric vascular anomalies on MR imaging. Report of three cases.
- Pneumocephalus.
- Cavernous angioma of the upper cervical spinal cord. A case report.
- Pediatric axis fractures: early halo immobilization, management and outcome.
- Agenesis of the corpus callosum: female monozygotic triplets. Case report.
- Burr hole neuroendoscopic fenestration of quadrigeminal cistern arachnoid cyst: technical case report.
- Tuberculoma presenting as an en plaque meningioma. Case report.
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