Dr. Gordon H Baltuch MD
Neurosurgeon
3400 Spruce St 3 Silverstein Bldg Philadelphia PA, 19104About
Dr. Gordon Baltuch practices Neurological Surgery in Philadelphia, PA. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Baltuch 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
Mc Gill Univ- Fac Of Med- Montreal- Que- Canada 1986
McGill University Faculty of Medicine 1986
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Efficacy of unilateral deep brain stimulation of the thalamic ventralis intermedius nucleus in a patient with bipolar disorder associated with Klinefelter syndrome and essential tremor. Case report.
- Revision of deep brain stimulator for tremor. Technical note.
- Bilateral stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus in patients with Parkinson disease: a study of efficacy and safety.
- Deep brain stimulation for movement disorders: morbidity and mortality in 109 patients.
- Thalamic deep brain stimulation for disabling tremor after excision of a midbrain cavernous angioma. Case report.
- Bilateral subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation for advanced PD: correlation of intraoperative MER and postoperative MRI with neuropathological findings.
- Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation in a patient with levodopa-responsive multiple system atrophy. Case report.
- Pallidal deep brain stimulation for longstanding severe generalized dystonia in Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome. Case report.
- Thalamic deep brain stimulation for posttraumatic action tremor.
- Bilateral stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus in Parkinson's disease: surgical efficacy and prediction of outcome.
- Unilateral battery depletion in Parkinson's disease patients treated with bilateral subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation may require urgent surgical replacement.
- Bilateral subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation in a patient with cervical dystonia and essential tremor.
- Error analysis of MRI and leksell stereotactic frame target localization in deep brain stimulation surgery.
- Deep brain stimulation inactivity can produce unexpected high electrode impedances when reactivated, leading to a false conclusion of wire fracture.
- Conventional MRI is inadequate to delineate the relationship between the red nucleus and subthalamic nucleus in Parkinson's disease.
Treatments
- Parkinson's Disease
- Neck Pain
- Back Pain
- Sciatica
- Spinal Stenosis
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