Dr. Richard B Morawetz MD
Neurosurgeon
619 19th Street South Birmingham AL, 35233About
Dr. Richard Morawetz practices Neurological Surgery in Birmingham, AL. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Morawetz 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
Duke University School of Medicine 1969
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Bilateral hippocampal atrophy: consequences to verbal memory following temporal lobectomy.
- Preradiation intracarotid cisplatin treatment of newly diagnosed anaplastic gliomas. The CNS Cancer Consortium.
- Multiple complications from an intracranial epidermoid cyst: case report and literature review.
- Brain abscess after esophageal dilation for caustic stricture: report of three cases.
- Blood velocity in the middle cerebral artery and regional cerebral blood flow during carotid endarterectomy.
- Symptomatic spinal epidural lipomatosis as a complication of steroid immunosuppression in cardiac transplant patients. Report of two cases.
- The use of lasers in neurosurgery.
- Focal glial differentiation and oncocytic transformation in choroid plexus papilloma.
- A prospective analysis of 142 carotid endarterectomies for occlusive vascular disease, 1979-1985.
- Neurosarcoidosis causing ventricular loculation, hydrocephalus, and death.
- Vascular tissue adhesives.
- Vascular tissue adhesives.
- Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of the external carotid artery: preliminary report.
- Factors and their influence on regional cerebral blood flow during nonpulsatile cardiopulmonary bypass.
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