Dr. Michael Scott Handler MD
Neuropathologist | Neuropathology
12408 Russell St Leawood KS, 66209About
Dr. Michael Handler is a Neuropsychiatrist practicing in Leawood, KS. Dr. Handler studies, evaluates, diagnoses, and treats mental disorders attributable to diseases of the nervous system. Neuropsychiatrists are trained to treat disorders occurring in patients due to irritability, attention deficit disorder, epilepsy, and many other conditions.
Education and Training
Tufts Univ Sch of Med, Boston Ma 1980
Tufts University School of Medicine 1980
Board Certification
PathologyAmerican Board of PathologyABP- Forensic Pathology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Legal review: AIDS patient records--legal issues of access and disclosure.
- The impact of fraud and abuse regulations.
- Practitioner-provider joint ventures, the OIG, and the IRS.
- Streaming hypointensity in hemorrhagic glioblastoma multiforme. An illustrative case.
- Magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography of an intraventricular craniopharyngioma.
- Intramedullary melanotic schwannoma of the cervicomedullary junction.
- Acute quadriplegic myopathy.
- Frontal lobe dementia due to a meningioma.
- Neurosarcoidosis with unusual MRI findings.
- Central nervous system Mycobacterium avium complex infection.
- MR of spinal cord ganglioglioma.
- Detection of pro-opiomelanocortin mRNA in human and rat caudal medulla by RT-PCR.
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