Dr. Joel Douglas Macdonald MD
Neurosurgeon
100 N Medical Dr Salt Lake City UT, 84113About
Dr. Joel Macdonald practices Neurological Surgery in Salt Lake City, UT. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Macdonald 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- Extensive experience with dural sinus thrombosis.
- Optochiasmal apoplexy from a cavernoma.
- Percutaneous dilational tracheostomy in neurosurgical patients.
- Learning to perform microvascular anastomosis.
- CNS Internet tools and neurosurgery.
- Acute microelectrode array implantation into human neocortex: preliminary technique and histological considerations.
- Cervical catheter tip placement for intrathecal baclofen administration.
- Self-assessment in neurological surgery: the SANS wired white paper.
- Infusion of intrathecal baclofen for acute withdrawal. Technical note.
- Transient facial nerve palsy after topical papaverine application during vestibular schwannoma surgery. Case report.
- Delayed post-traumatic saccular aneurysm of PICA in an adolescent.
- A population-based study of all-terrain vehicle-related head and spinal injuries.
- Aneurysmal bone cyst of the petrous bone: case presentation and review of the literature.
- Technique for steering spinal cord stimulator electrode.
- We use anteroposterior fluoroscopy exclusively during electrode placement to optimize electrode position relative to anatomic midline.
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