Dr. John G Golfinos M.D.
Neurosurgeon
530 1st Ave Suite 8r New York NY, 10016Rating
4/5
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Dr. John Golfinos practices Neurological Surgery in New York, NY. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Golfinos 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
Columbia Univ Coll of Physicians And Surgeons, New York Ny 1988
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons 1988
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Glial neoplasms: dynamic contrast-enhanced T2*-weighted MR imaging.
- Amusia following resection of a Heschl gyrus glioma. Case report.
- Comparison of cerebral blood volume and vascular permeability from dynamic susceptibility contrast-enhanced perfusion MR imaging with glioma grade.
- Dynamic susceptibility contrast-enhanced perfusion and conventional MR imaging
- A comparison of survival rates for treatment of melanoma metastatic to the brain.
- Retrolabyrinthine craniectomy: the unsung hero of skull base surgery.
- Resection of parietal lobe gliomas: incidence and evolution of neurological deficits in 28 consecutive patients correlated to the location and morphological characteristics of the tumor.
- Results of surgical resection for progression of brain metastases previously treated by gamma knife radiosurgery.
- Gliomas: predicting time to progression or survival with cerebral blood volume measurements at dynamic susceptibility-weighted contrast-enhanced perfusion MR imaging.
- An unusual presentation and spread of an endolymphatic sac tumor.
- Small vestibular schwannomas with no hearing: comparison of functional outcomes in stereotactic radiosurgery and microsurgery.
- Posterior fossa meningiomas presenting with Ménière's-like symptoms: case report.
- Efficacy of clevidipine in controlling perioperative hypertension in neurosurgical patients: initial single-center experience.
- R132H-mutation of isocitrate dehydrogenase-1 is not sufficient for HIF-1α upregulation in adult glioma.
- Neurological complications and symptom resolution following Gamma Knife surgery for brain metastases 2 cm or smaller in relation to eloquent cortices.
Treatments
- Brain Tumor
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