Dr. Serena S. Hu MD
Orthopedist
2680 HANOVER ST PALO ALTO CA, 94304About
Dr. Serena Hu, an orthopedic surgeon and co-director of the UCSF Spine Center, specializes in spine disorders, in particular the treatment of adult scoliosis and the prevention of its complications. In ...
Education and Training
Mc Gill Univ- Fac Of Med- Montreal- Que- Canada 1984
Board Certification
Orthopaedic SurgeryAmerican Board of Orthopaedic SurgeryABOS
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Predictors of flexibility and pain patterns in thoracolumbar and lumbar idiopathic scoliosis.
- The lumbar zygapophyseal (facet) joints: a role in the pathogenesis of spinal pain syndromes and degenerative spondylolisthesis.
- Burst fracture in the metastatically involved spine: development, validation, and parametric analysis of a three-dimensional poroelastic finite-element model.
- Biomechanically derived guideline equations for burst fracture risk prediction in the metastatically involved spine.
- Percutaneous plasma decompression alters cytokine expression in injured porcine intervertebral discs.
- Blood loss in adult spinal surgery.
- Intradiscal thermal therapy does not stimulate biologic remodeling in an in vivo sheep model.
- High thoracic spinal infection following upper gastrointestinal work-up.
- Visual loss after spinal surgery.
- Surgical versus nonsurgical treatment for lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis.
- Surgical strategies and choosing levels for spinal deformity: how high, how low, front and back.
- Recombinant activated factor VII in spinal surgery: a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-escalation trial.
- Use of C-reactive protein after spinal surgery: comparison with erythrocyte sedimentation rate as predictor of early postoperative infectious complications.
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