Dr. John L. d. Atkinson M.D.
Neurosurgeon
200 1st St SW Rochester MN, 55905About
Dr. John Atkinson practices Neurological Surgery in Rochester, MN. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Atkinson 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 South Al Coll of Med, Mobile Al 1984
University of South Alabama College of Medicine 1984
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Recurrent intraventricular and subarachnoid hemorrhage due to an intracranial schwannoma. Case illustration.
- What's new in neurological surgery.
- Preoperative ventriculostomy and rebleeding after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.
- Utility of intraoperative ultrasound for tumors of the cauda equina.
- Intracranial pressure response to severe head injury induced apnea and catecholamine surge.
- Peroneal intraneural ganglia: the importance of the articular branch. A unifying theory.
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in critically ill neurologic-neurosurgical patients.
- Pathogenesis, natural history, and treatment of unruptured intracranial aneurysms.
- Influence of aspirin on outcome following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.
- A comparison of peripheral skin blood flow and temperature during endoscopic thoracic sympathotomy.
- The Mayo brothers and Harvey Cushing: a review of their 39-year friendship through their personal letters.
- Preangiographic evaluation of spinal dural arteriovenous fistulas with elliptic centric contrast-enhanced MR Angiography and effect on radiation dose and volume of iodinated contrast material.
- Survival of cardiac arrest after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.
- Deep Sylvian fissure chordoid meningioma: case report.
- Surgical anatomy of dural defects in spontaneous spinal cerebrospinal fluid leaks.
Treatments
- Pinched Nerve
- Herniated Disc
- Spinal Stenosis
- Trigeminal Neuralgia
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Practice At 200 1st St SW
200 1st St SW -Rochester, MN 55905Get Direction
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