Dr. Ron L Alterman M.D.
Neurosurgeon
110 Francis Street, Suite 3b Boston MA, 02215About
Dr. Ron Alterman practices Neurological Surgery in Boston, MA. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Alterman 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.
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Surgical options in Parkinson's disease.
- Methylmethacrylate insufficiently fixes deep brain stimulator lead position.
- Contemporary psychosurgery and a look to the future.
- Intraoperative microelectrode recording equipment: what features are necessary?
- Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation in Parkinson disease patients over age 70 years.
- Deep brain stimulation for torsion dystonia in children.
- Deep brain stimulation for torsion dystonia.
- Outcome predictors of pallidal stimulation in patients with primary dystonia: the role of disease duration.
- A primary encephalocele culture yields a pure population of human astrocytes.
- STN-DBS frequency effects on freezing of gait in advanced Parkinson disease.
- Deep brain stimulation for primary generalized dystonia: long-term outcomes.
- Pallidal deep brain stimulation for primary dystonia in children.
- Factors predicting protracted improvement after pallidal DBS for primary
- Transgressing the ventricular wall during subthalamic deep brain stimulation
- Fiducial registration with spoiled gradient-echo magnetic resonance imaging enhances the accuracy of subthalamic nucleus targeting.
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