Dr. Robert T Geertman MD, PH.D
Neurosurgeon
2500 Metrohealth Dr Suite H-910 Cleveland OH, 44109About
Dr. Robert Geertman practices Neurological Surgery in Cleveland, OH. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Geertman 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.
Education and Training
Howard University Medical School
New York Medical College 1996
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Spinal cord stimulation: a new method to produce an effective cough in patients with spinal cord injury.
- Lower thoracic spinal cord stimulation to restore cough in patients with spinal cord injury: results of a National Institutes of Health-sponsored clinical trial. Part I: methodology and effectiveness of expiratory muscle activation.
- Duplication of the pituitary gland associated with multiple blastogenesis defects: Duplication of the pituitary gland (DPG)-plus syndrome. Case report and review of literature.
- Long-term follow-up of spinal cord stimulation to restore cough in subjects with spinal cord injury.
- Extracranial ligation of ethmoidal arteries before resection of giant olfactory groove or planum sphenoidale meningiomas: 3 illustrative cases with a review of the literature on surgical techniques.
- Minimally invasive method to activate the expiratory muscles to restore cough.
Treatments
- Stroke
- Brain Tumor
- Cerebrovascular Disease
- Birth Defects
- Aneurysm
- Brain Aneurysm
- Lumecca
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