Dr. Benjamin C. Warf MD
Neurosurgeon
300 Longwood Ave Hunnewell 02 Boston MA, 02115About
Dr. Warf began his career in pediatric neurosurgery at Children’s Hospital Boston in 1991 as the first Pediatric Fellow in Neurological Surgery. In 2000, he and his family moved to Uganda ...
Education and Training
Harvard Medical School 1984
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Separation of complex pygopagus conjoined twins.
- Intracavernous teratoma in a school-aged child.
- Nonselective partial dorsal rhizotomy: a clinical experience with 1-year follow-Up.
- Comparison of 1-year outcomes for the Chhabra and Codman-Hakim Micro Precision
- Hydrocephalus in Uganda: the predominance of infectious origin and primary management with endoscopic third ventriculostomy.
- Comparison of endoscopic third ventriculostomy alone and combined with choroid plexus cauterization in infants younger than 1 year of age: a prospective study in 550 African children.
- Endoscopic third ventriculostomy and choroid plexus cauterization for pediatric hydrocephalus.
- Evidence for the ventral origin of oligodendrocyte precursors in the rat spinal cord.
- Combined endoscopic third ventriculostomy and choroid plexus cauterization as
- Neurosurgical humanitarian aid.
- Intracranial tumor in infants: characteristics, management, and outcome of a contemporary series.
- Endoscopic third ventriculostomy in the treatment of childhood hydrocephalus in Uganda: report of a scoring system that predicts success.
- Intraoperative assessment of cerebral aqueduct patency and cisternal scarring: impact on success of endoscopic third ventriculostomy in 403 African children.
- Pediatric hydrocephalus in East Africa: prevalence, causes, treatments, and strategies for the future.
- Association of bacteria with hydrocephalus in Ugandan infants.
Treatments
- Birth Defects
- Blepharoplasty-eyelids
- Lumecca
Fellowships
- Boston Children's Hospital 1992
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