Dr. Ronald I. Apfelbaum MD
Neurosurgeon
100 N Medical Dr Salt Lake City UT, 84113About
Dr. Ronald Apfelbaum practices Neurological Surgery in Salt Lake City, UT. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Apfelbaum 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- A new occipitocervical fusion construct in pediatric patients with occipitocervical instability. Technical note.
- Anatomical suitability of C1-2 transarticular screw placement in pediatric patients.
- Neurovascular decompression: the procedure of choice?
- Retroclival craniopharyngioma. Case illustration.
- Circumferential fracture of the skull base causing craniocervical dislocation. Case report.
- Symptomatic pneumocephalus occurring years after transphenoidal surgery and radiation therapy for an invasive pituitary tumor: a case report and review of the literature.
- The use of anterior caspar plate fixation in acute cervical spine injury.
- Treatment of trigeminal neuralgia.
- Variations on the standard transsphenoidal approach to the sellar region, with emphasis on the extended approaches and parasellar approaches: surgical experience in 105 cases.
- Anterior cervical spinal cord tethering after anterior spinal surgery: case report.
- Atlantoaxial transarticular screw fixation: a review of surgical indications, fusion rate, complications, and lessons learned in 191 adult patients.
- Historical perspectives on the diagnosis and treatment of trigeminal neuralgia.
- Endoscopic decompression of tension pneumosella following transsphenoidal pituitary tumor resection.
- Odontoid screw fixation for fresh and remote fractures.
- Decompression of cavernous sinus meningioma for preservation and improvement of cranial nerve function. Technical note.
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