Dr. Ricardo B. de v. Fontes M.D.
Neurosurgeon
1653 W Congress Pkwy Chicago IL, 60612Rating
4/5
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Dr. Ricardo Fontes practices Neurological Surgery in Chicago, IL. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Fontes 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- Comparative study of the strength of the flexor and extensor muscles of the knee through isokinetic evaluation in normal subjects and patients subjected to trans-tibial amputation.
- Acute neurogenic pulmonary edema: case reports and literature review.
- Ultrastructural study of the filum terminale and its elastic fibers.
- Effects of combined pre- and post-natal protein deprivation on the myenteric plexus of the esophagus of weanling rats: a histochemical, quantitative and ultrastructural study.
- Effects of perinatal protein deprivation and recovery on esophageal myenteric plexus.
- Anterior fixation of the axis.
- Retrosigmoid approach for resection of an extraventricular choroid plexus papilloma in the cerebellopontine angle.
- Local cooling for traumatic spinal cord injury.
- Ultrasound-guided posterolateral approach for midline calcified thoracic disc herniation.
- Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder of the cervical spine mimicking an
- Coexistent Panspinal Subdural Abscess and Isolated Leptomeningeal Myeloma Relapse Presenting as Rapid-Onset Paraparesis.
- Lumbar Radiculopathy in the Setting of Degenerative Scoliosis: MIS Decompression
- Surgical considerations in posterior C1-2 instrumentation in the presence of vertebral artery anomalies: case illustration and review of literature.
- Intubation biomechanics: validation of a finite element model of cervical spine motion during endotracheal intubation in intact and injured conditions.
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