Dr. David W Pincus MD
Neurosurgeon
1600 Sw Archer Road Box 100371 Gainesville FL, 32610Rating
4/5
About
David W. Pincus, MD, PhD, is the Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery. He was born in New Haven, CT in 1963. He grew up in Massachusetts where he attended high school at Deerfield Academy. After graduating ...
Education and Training
Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medicine Research, Pondicherry University 1992
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- In vitro neurogenesis by adult human epileptic temporal neocortex.
- Stem cells and neuropoiesis in the adult human brain.
- Neonatal hypothalamic hamartoma: a differentiating nonlethal hamartoblastoma.
- Endoscopic-assisted repair of craniosynostosis.
- A diplopia dilemma.
- Development of syringohydromyelia associated with Dandy-Walker malformation: treatment with cystoperitoneal shunt placement. Case report.
- Frameless, pinless stereotactic neurosurgery in children.
- Role of voltage-sensitive calcium channels in mitogenic stimulation of neuroblasts.
- Salvaging the "lost peritoneum" after ventriculoatrial shunt failures.
- History of craniosynostosis surgery and the evolution of minimally invasive endoscopic techniques: the University of Florida experience.
- Lower incidence of reoperation with longer shunt survival with adult ventriculoperitoneal shunts placed for hemorrhage-related hydrocephalus.
- Spinal and paraspinal Ewing tumors.
- Aggressive surgical management of patients with Chiari II malformation and brainstem dysfunction.
- Intracranial ependymomas treated with radiotherapy: long-term results from a single institution.
- Vasoactive intestinal peptide regulation of neuroblast mitosis and survival: role of cAMP.
Treatments
- Cerebral Palsy
- Scoliosis
- Brain Tumor
- Cerebrovascular Disease
- Birth Defects
- Blepharoplasty-eyelids
- Lumecca
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