Dr. John K Houten MD
Neurosurgeon
800 MEADOWS ROAD BOCA RATON FL, 33486About
Dr. John Houten practices Neurological Surgery in Bronx, NY. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Houten 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
New York Univ Sch of Med, New York Ny 1995
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Spinal cord astrocytomas: presentation, management and outcome.
- Pediatric intramedullary spinal cord tumors: special considerations.
- Fracture through the C2 synchondrosis in a young child.
- Spinal cord astrocytomas: presentation, management, and outcome.
- Correlation of anomalous vascular and osseous anatomy in congenital kyphosis type I. Case report.
- Comparison of postoperative values for C-reactive protein in minimally invasive and open lumbar spinal fusion surgery.
- Clinical assessment of percutaneous lumbar pedicle screw placement using theO-arm multidimensional surgical imaging system.
- Symptomatic progression of degenerative scoliosis after decompression and limited fusion surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis.
- Vertebral anomalies in siblings with Fanconi anemia.
- Image-guided percutaneous internal fixation of sacral fracture.
- Diabetes and cervical myelopathy.
- Intramedullary spindle cell hemangioma: case report.
- Vaginal Migration of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Catheter and Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak as a Complication of Hysterectomy.
- Image Guidance to Aid Pedicle Screw Fixation of a Lumbar Fracture-Dislocation Injury in a Toddler.
- Corrigendum to 'Image Guidance to Aid Pedicle Screw Fixation of a Lumbar Fracture-Dislocation Injury in a Toddler' [World Neurosurgery 105 (2017) 1041.e15-1041.e17].
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