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Dr. Howard A Riina M.D.
Neurosurgeon
525 E 68th St St 626/ Box 99 New York NY, 10021About
Dr. Howard Riina practices Neurological Surgery in New York, NY. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Riina 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
Temple Univ Sch of Med, Philadelphia Pa 1993
Temple University School of Medicine 1993
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Giant aneurysms.
- Emergence of complex, involuntary movements after gamma knife radiosurgery for essential tremor.
- February 2002: 29-year-old woman with a skull mass for 2 months.
- Endovascular procedures for treating wide-necked aneurysms.
- Mechanical embolectomy.
- Is routine intraoperative angiography in the surgical treatment of cerebral aneurysms justified? A consecutive series of 147 aneurysms.
- Using CT in the diagnosis and management of patients with cerebral vasospasm.
- Completion angiography for surgically treated cerebral aneurysms: an economic analysis.
- The combined approach to intracranial aneurysm treatment.
- Surgical management of pediatric cerebral arteriovenous malformations.
- Safety and maximum tolerated dose of superselective intraarterial cerebral infusion of bevacizumab after osmotic blood-brain barrier disruption for recurrent malignant glioma. Clinical article.
- Endovascular management of distal anterior inferior cerebellar artery aneurysms: Report of two cases and review of the literature.
- Endovascular treatment of carotid blowout syndrome: who and how to treat.
- Fusion of intraoperative three-dimensional rotational angiography and flat-panel
- Super-selective basilar artery infusion of bevacizumab and cetuximab for multiply recurrent pediatric ependymoma.
Clinical Trials
Treatments
- Stroke
- Cerebrovascular Disease
- Birth Defects
- Aneurysm
- Brain Aneurysm
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