Neal F. Kassell
Neurosurgeon
Lee St Charlottesville VA, 22908Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Neal Kassell practices Neurological Surgery in Charlottesville, VA. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Kassell 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 Pa Sch of Med, Philadelphia Pa 1972
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Posterior inferior cerebellar artery aneurysms associated with posterior fossa arteriovenous malformation: report of five cases and literature review.
- The props-based interface for neurosurgical visualization.
- Charles George Drake, M.D. 1920-1998.
- Double-blind, randomized, vehicle-controlled study of high-dose tirilazad mesylate in women with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Part I. A cooperative study in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
- Double-blind, randomized, vehicle-controlled study of high-dose tirilazad mesylate in women with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Part II. A cooperative study in North America.
- Factors associated with hydrocephalus after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.
- Efficacy of transluminal angioplasty for the management of symptomatic cerebral vasospasm following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.
- Induction of tolerance against ischemia/reperfusion injury in the rat brain by preconditioning with the endotoxin analog diphosphoryl lipid A.
- Delayed administration of the K+ channel activator cromakalim attenuates cerebral vasospasm after experimental subarachnoid hemorrhage.
- Systemic administration of mexiletine for attenuation of cerebral vasospasm following experimental subarachnoid haemorrhage.
- Symptomatic delayed arterial spasm following non-aneurysmal perimesencephalic subarachnoid hemorrhage: a case report and review of the literature.
- Subarachnoid haemorrhage: epidemiology, risk factors, and treatment options.
- Anticonvulsant effects of gamma surgery in a model of chronic spontaneous limbic epilepsy in rats.
- Lenticulostriate artery aneurysm in infancy. Case illustration.
- Radiosurgery-induced microvascular alterations precede necrosis of the brain neuropil.
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