Dr. Michael B Horowitz MD
Neurosurgeon
200 Lothrop St Puh Suite B-400 Pittsburgh PA, 15213Rating
4/5
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Dr. Michael Horowitz practices Neurological Surgery in Pittsburgh, PA. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Horowitz 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 Rochester Sch of Med & Dentistry, Rochester Ny 1988
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Target-specific multimodality endovascular management of carotid artery blow-out syndrome.
- Experimental third ventriculostomy performed using endovascular surgical techniques and their adaptation to percutaneous intradural neuronavigation: proof of concept cadaver study.
- Model of reversible cerebral ischemia in a monkey model.
- Refractory occipital neuralgia: preoperative assessment with CT-guided nerve block prior to dorsal cervical rhizotomy.
- A rare case of a ruptured middle meningeal aneurysm causing intracerebral hematoma in a patient with moyamoya disease.
- Intuitive intraoperative ultrasound guidance using the Sonic Flashlight: a novel ultrasound display system.
- Emergent stenting of extracranial internal carotid artery occlusion in acute stroke has a high revascularization rate.
- Mental health, anxiety, and depression in patients with cerebral aneurysms.
- Three unusual arteriovenous fistulas presenting in young children successfully treated with transarterial endovascular embolization.
- Neuroform stent-assisted coil embolization of a ruptured A1 segment anterior cerebral artery aneurysm.
- Magnesium infusion for vasospasm prophylaxis after subarachnoid hemorrhage.
- Management of symptomatic intracranial atherosclerotic disease.
- Ethylenevinylalcohol copolymer (Onyx-18) used in endovascular treatment of vein of Galen malformation.
- Treatment of extracranial carotid artery pseudoaneurysms with stent grafts: case series.
- Retrograde back-coiling technique for a ruptured aneurysm of a double-origin posterior inferior cerebellar artery.
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