Dr. Matthew Joseph Mcgirt M.D.
Neurosurgeon
3601 The Vanderbilt Clinic Nashville TN, 37232About
Dr. Matthew Mcgirt practices Neurological Surgery in Nashville, TN. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Mcgirt 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.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Mouse model of subarachnoid hemorrhage associated cerebral vasospasm: methodological analysis.
- Serum von Willebrand factor, matrix metalloproteinase-9, and vascular endothelial growth factor levels predict the onset of cerebral vasospasm after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.
- Simvastatin increases endothelial nitric oxide synthase and ameliorates cerebral vasospasm resulting from subarachnoid hemorrhage.
- Successful aqueductal plasty and stenting for tectal plate tumor after failed third ventriculostomy: a case report.
- Risk factors for pediatric ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection and predictors of infectious pathogens.
- Management of acute cervical spinal cord injury.
- Surgical experience in 130 pediatric patients with Chiari I malformations.
- Cerebrospinal fluid shunt placement for pseudotumor cerebri-associated intractable headache: predictors of treatment response and an analysis of long-term outcomes.
- A contralateral, transfrontal, extraventricular approach to stereotactic brainstem biopsy procedures. Technical note.
- The use of ventriculoperitoneal shunts for uncontrollable intracranial
- Accuracy of frameless and frame-based image-guided stereotactic brain biopsy in the diagnosis of glioma: comparison of biopsy and open resection specimen.
- The syndrome of hydrocephalus in young and middle-aged adults (SHYMA).
- Baseline neuropsychological profile and cognitive response to cerebrospinal fluid shunting for idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus.
- Evaluation of a distal pericallosal aneurysm visualized with 3-dimensional digital subtraction angiography: case report and treatment implications.
- Frameless image-guided stereotactic brain biopsy procedure: diagnostic yield, surgical morbidity, and comparison with the frame-based technique.
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