
Dr. Matthew D Smyth MD
Neurosurgeon
1 Childrens Pl 4s20 Saint Louis MO, 63110About
Dr. Matthew Smyth practices Neurological Surgery in Saint Louis, MO. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Smyth 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 Ca, San Francisco, Sch of Med, San Francisco Ca 1996
University of California 1998
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
DermatologyAmerican Board of DermatologyABD
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Anomalous traversement of the suprascapular artery through the suprascapular notch: a possible mechanism for undiagnosed shoulder pain?
- Chiari I malformation and cloacal exstrophy: report of a patient with both defects of blastogenesis.
- Chiari I malformation and caudal regression syndrome: a previously unreported association.
- Parietal foramina are not synonymous with giant parietal foramina.
- Parietal cephalocele.
- Focal cooling for epilepsy: an alternative therapy that might actually work.
- Magnetic resonance imaging evidence of posterior pharynx denervation in pediatric patients with Chiari I malformation and absent gag reflex.
- Early programmable valve malfunctions in pediatric hydrocephalus.
- Transcortical cooling inhibits hippocampal-kindled seizures in the rat.
- Simultaneous image-guided and endoscopic navigation without rigid cranial fixation: application in infants: technical case report.
- Complications of invasive subdural electrode monitoring at St. Louis Children's Hospital, 1994-2005.
- Hydrogel-induced cervicomedullary compression after posterior fossa decompression for Chiari malformation. Case report.
- Iatrogenic intradural epidermoid cyst after lumbar puncture. Case illustration.
- Giant intracranial teratoma with epignathus in a neonate. Case report and review of the literature.
- The Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group guidelines for the diagnosis and management of dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumours.
Awards
- 2007 America's Top Surgeons
- 2009-2013 Listed in Best Doctors in America (Best Doctors, Inc.)
- 2010 SLCH Michelle Lawson Family Choice Award 2010 Washington University School of Medicine
Treatments
- Neurological Surgery, Epilepsy
- Brain Tumor
- Birth Defects
- Blepharoplasty-eyelids
- Lumecca
Fellowships
- Pediatric Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Alabama at Birmingham, UAB, Birmingham, Alabama 2003
Dr. Matthew D Smyth MD's Practice location
Practice At 1 Childrens Pl 4s20
1 Childrens Pl 4s20 -Saint Louis, MO 63110Get Direction
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4400 Clayton Ave -Saint Louis, MO 63110Get Direction
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