Dr. Gregory W Albert M.D.
Neurosurgeon
200 Hawkins Dr Iowa City IA, 52242About
Dr. Gregory Albert practices Neurological Surgery in Iowa City, IA. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Albert 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 2003
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Campomelic dysplasia: a rare cause of congenital spinal deformity.
- Multiple symptomatic vertebral artery loops treated with posterior cervical fusion.
- Predictors of the need for cerebrospinal fluid diversion in patients with myelomeningocele.
- Strategies for Computed Tomography Radiation Dose Reduction in Pediatric Neuroimaging.
- Absence of seizures in Rasmussen encephalitis with active inflammation.
- Spine ultrasounds should not be routinely performed for patients with simple sacral dimples.
- Solitary fibrous tumors of the spine: a pediatric case report with a comprehensive review of the literature.
Treatments
- Cerebral Palsy
- Stroke
- Brain Tumor
- Cerebrovascular Disease
- Birth Defects
- Blepharoplasty-eyelids
- Lumecca
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