Dr. Stephen S Tower M.D.
Orthopedist
3831 Piper St Suite S-220 Anchorage AK, 99508About
Dr. Stephen Tower is an orthopaedic surgeon practicing in Anchorage, AK. Dr. Tower specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries, diseases and disorders of the bodys musculoskeletal system. As an orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Tower tends to bones, ligaments, muscles, joints, nerves and tendons. Orthopaedic surgeons can specialize in certain areas like the hand, spine, hip, foot and ankle, shoulder and elbow or the knee.
Education and Training
Univ of Wa Sch of Med, Seattle Wa 1983
Board Certification
Orthopaedic SurgeryAmerican Board of Orthopaedic SurgeryABOS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Fractures of the femur after hip replacement: the Oregon experience.
- Snowmachine related mortality and morbidity in Alaska: a comparison with non-motorized winter sport.
- Action potentials in sympathetic nerves, elicited by stimulation of frog's viscera.
- DISSOCIATION OF THE PYRAMIDAL AND EXTRAPYRAMIDAL FUNCTIONS OF THE FRONTAL LOBE.
- Management of paranoid trends in treatment of a post-psychotic obsessional condition.
- Arthroprosthetic cobaltism: neurological and cardiac manifestations in two patients with metal-on-metal arthroplasty: a case report.
- Arthroprosthetic cobaltism associated with metal on metal hip implants.
- Systemic disease after hip replacement: aeromedical implications of arthroprosthetic cobaltism.
- A Systematic Review of Systemic Cobaltism After Wear or Corrosion of Chrome-Cobalt Hip Implants.
- A Perspective on the Principles of Integrity in Infectious Disease Research.
- Periprosthetic fractures of the femur. An analysis of 93 fractures.
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