Dr. Fernando L. Vale MD
Neurosurgeon
12901 Bruce B Downs Blvd Tampa FL, 33612About
Dr. Fernando Vale practices Neurological Surgery in Tampa, FL. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Vale 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
Univ Of Pr Sch Of Med- San Juan Pr 1991
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Ventricular asystole during vagus nerve stimulation for epilepsy in humans.
- Rigid occipitocervical fusion.
- MRI evidence of mesial temporal sclerosis in patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures.
- The neurosurgical treatment of epilepsy.
- Induction of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures without placebo.
- When drugs don't work: an algorithmic approach to medically intractable epilepsy.
- Vagus nerve stimulation and drug reduction.
- MRI of the brain is safe in patients implanted with the vagus nerve stimulator.
- Epilepsy surgery, delays and referral patterns-are all your epilepsy patients controlled?
- Vagus nerve stimulation for pharmacoresistant epilepsy: clinical symptoms with end of service.
- Penetrating craniofacial injury inflicted by a knife.
- Granulomatosis with CNS involvement: a neuroimaging clinicopathologic correlation.
- Ictal EEG remains the prominent predictor of seizure-free outcome after temporal lobectomy in epileptic patients with normal brain MRI.
- Trephine epilepsy surgery: the inferior temporal gyrus approach.
- Trends in the use of vagus nerve stimulation for epilepsy: analysis of a nationwide database.
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