Dr. Frank T Vertosick MD
Neurosurgeon
380 W Chestnut St Suite 101 Washington PA, 15301About
Dr. Frank Vertosick practices Neurological Surgery in Washington, PA. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Vertosick 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
University of Pittsburgh / Main Campus 1981
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Brain tumor biology and therapy.
- Long-term survival after the diagnosis of malignant glioma: a series of 22 patients surviving more than 4 years after diagnosis.
- Immune network theory: a role for parallel distributed processing?
- Response of low-passage human malignant gliomas in vitro to stimulation and selective inhibition of growth factor-mediated pathways.
- The immune system as a neural network: a multi-epitope approach.
- Survival of patients with well-differentiated astrocytomas diagnosed in the era of computed tomography.
- Anti-estrogen antibodies in systemic lupus erythematosus: a quantitative evaluation of serum levels.
- Glioma growth and the protein kinase-C system.
- Response of malignant glioma cell lines to activation and inhibition of protein kinase C-mediated pathways.
- Brain stem and spinal metastases of supratentorial glioblastoma multiforme: a clinical series.
- Effect of tamoxifen on DNA synthesis and proliferation of human malignant glioma lines in vitro.
- Response of malignant glioma cell lines to epidermal growth factor and platelet-derived growth factor in a serum-free medium.
- The risk and efficacy of anticoagulant therapy in the treatment of thromboembolic complications in patients with primary malignant brain tumors.
- A method for recovery of native, clonally-restricted immunoglobulins from agarose gels.
- Stability of model immune complexes during zone electrophoresis and isoelectric focusing in agarose gels.
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