Dr. Hoi Sang U M.D.
Neurosurgeon
200 W Arbor Dr Mail Code 8893 San Diego CA, 92103About
Dr. Hoi U practices Neurological Surgery in San Diego, CA. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. U 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
Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA Medical Degree
UC San Francisco, School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA Other Degree
Neurosurgeon Medical Degree
Professor of Surgery Medical Degree
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Role of the von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor protein during neuronal differentiation.
- Alteration in p53 modulates glial proteins in human glial tumour cells.
- An implantable neuroprosthesis for restoring bladder and bowel control to patients with spinal cord injuries: a multicenter trial.
- Fetal brain progenitor cells transdifferentiate to fates outside the nervous system.
- Surgical treatment for aneurysms of the upper basilar artery.
- Letter: Antibiotics for basilar skull fracture.
- Multimodality treatment of deep periventricular cerebral arteriovenous malformations.
- Migration of grafted rat astrocytes: dependence on source/target organ.
- Formation of PC12 tumors after transplantation into rat brains: dependence of time course on host age.
- Migratory behavior of PC12 cells transplanted into neonatal rat brain.
- Growth factor gene therapy for Alzheimer disease.
- An assessment of the cerebral protective effects of etomidate in a model of incomplete forebrain ischemia in the rat.
- Intraoperative brain ultrasound: a new approach to study flow dynamics in intracranial aneurysms.
- Brain stem cells adopt a pituitary fate after implantation into the adult rodent pituitary gland.
- Selective differentiation of central nervous system-derived stem cells in response to cues from specific regions of the developing brain.
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