Dr. Faheem A. Sandhu, MD, PhD
Neurosurgeon
3800 Reservoir Rd NW 7th Floor Washington DC, 20007About
Dr. Faheem Sandhu practices Neurological Surgery in Clinton, MD. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Sandhu 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 Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry 1995
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Minimalism: is less more?
- Minimally invasive surgical treatment of lumbar synovial cysts.
- Clinical outcomes after minimal-access surgery for recurrent lumbar disc herniation.
- Minimally invasive microendoscopy-assisted transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion with instrumentation.
- Minimally invasive lumbar spinal decompression in the elderly: outcomes of 50 patients aged 75 years and older.
- Expression of the human beta-amyloid protein of Alzheimer's disease specifically in the brains of transgenic mice.
- An alternate method for placement of C-1 screws.
- Extramedullary hematopoietic tumor mimicking a thoracic nerve root schwannoma.
- Minimally invasive approach for far lateral disc herniations: results from 20 patients.
- Minimally invasive resection of lumbar synovial cysts from a contralateral approach.
- Minimally invasive lateral retroperitoneal corpectomy for treatment of focal thoracolumbar kyphotic deformity: case report and review of the literature.
- Minimally invasive lateral approach to the thoracolumbar junction for corpectomy.
- Thoracic spine localization using preoperative placement of fiducial markers and subsequent CT. A technical report.
- Percutaneous "K-wireless" pedicle screw fixation technique: an evaluation of the initial experience of 100 screws with assessment of accuracy, radiation exposure, and procedure time.
- Correction of clivoaxial angle deformity in the setting of suboccipital craniectomy: technical note.
Treatments
- Spondylolisthesis
- Scoliosis
- Pinched Nerve
- Herniated Disc
- Birth Defects
- Spinal Stenosis
- Blepharoplasty-eyelids
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