Hugh Franklin Smisson
Neurosurgeon
840 Pine St Suite 880 Macon GA, 31201Rating
4/5
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Dr. Hugh Smisson practices Neurological Surgery in Macon, GA. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Smisson 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
Med Coll of Ga Sch of Med, Augusta Ga 1986
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Results and complications from the use of a frameless stereotactic microscopic navigator system.
- Postoperative lumbar microdiscectomy pain. Minimalization by irrigation and cooling.
- In vivo proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy of brain tumors.
- C1-C2 transarticular screw fixation for atlantoaxial instability: a 6-year experience.
- Disassociation between intracranial and systemic temperatures as an early sign of brain death.
- Does intraoperative electromyographic monitoring in lumbar microdiscectomy correlate with postoperative pain?
- Results of long-term follow-up in patients undergoing anterior screw fixation for type II and rostral type III odontoid fractures.
- Intraventricular administration of rt-PA in patients with intraventricular hemorrhage.
- Surgical treatment of acute type II and rostral type III odontoid fractures managed by anterior screw fixation.
- Review of the literature regarding the relationship of rebleeding and external ventricular drainage in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage of aneurysmal origin.
- Salvage of a failed odontoid screw.
- Long-term survival after glioblastoma multiforme.
- Retirement: slowing down or slowing up?
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