Dr. Richard H. Mortara MD
Neurosurgeon
2201 Regency Road Bldg. 100 Lexington KY, 40503About
Dr. Richard Mortara practices Neurological Surgery in Lexington, KY. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Mortara 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
Loyola Univ of Chicago Stritch Sch of Med, Maywood Il 1967
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Preparation of nitroso-13N-labeled nitrosoureas.
- Microvascular surgery for stroke prevention.
- Removal of an intracranial glioblastoma in a hemophiliac.
- Chronic arachnoiditis after a pantopaque study of the posterior fossa.
- Malignant gliomas of the optic chiasm in adolescents.
- Ultrastructural study of the pineal germinoma in vivo and in vitro.
- Ultrastructural study of the pineal germinoma in vivo and in vitro.
- Suprasellar germ cell tumor with extracranial metastases.
- Isolated histiocytosis X of the hypothalamus. Case report.
- Isolated histiocytosis X of the hypothalamus. Case report.
- Immune responses in patients with gliomas.
- Pontine cyst presenting as trigeminal pain. Case report.
- The clinical limitations of brain scanning in metastatic disease.
- Primary glioblastoma multiforme of the cerebellum. A case report.
- Blindness after closed head injury.
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