Dr. David G Piepgras M.D.
Neurosurgeon
200 1st St SW Rochester MN, 55905Rating
4/5
About
Dr. David Piepgras practices Neurological Surgery in Rochester, MN. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Piepgras 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 Mn Med Sch-Minneapolis, Minneapolis Mn 1965
University of Minnesota Medical School 1965
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Acute deterioration from thrombosis and rerupture of a giant intracranial aneurysm.
- Absent pachymeningeal gadolinium enhancement on cranial MRI despite symptomatic CSF leak.
- Perspectives on training standards in neuroendovascular therapeutics.
- Absent headache despite CSF volume depletion (intracranial hypotension).
- Occult rupture of a giant vertebral artery aneurysm following proximal occlusion and intrasaccular thrombosis. Case report.
- Occlusive hyperemia.
- Hypopituitarism caused by intrasellar aneurysms.
- 100 years of neurological surgery at the Mayo Clinic.
- Remote hemorrhage.
- Radiation-induced meningiomas involving the orbit.
- Unruptured aneurysms.
- Endovascular treatment of an internal carotid artery pseudoaneurysm following transsphenoidal surgery. Case report.
- Editorial: Intracranial ependymomas.
- Remote cerebellar hemorrhage.
- Cervical artery dissections: evidence for redissection in previously dissected arteries: report of three cases.
Treatments
- Back Pain
- Pinched Nerve
- Cerebrovascular Disease
- Herniated Disc
- Spinal Stenosis
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