Dr. Douglas L. Brockmeyer MD
Neurosurgeon
100 Mario Capecchi Dr #1475 Salt Lake City UT, 84113About
Dr. Douglas Brockmeyer practices Neurological Surgery in Salt Lake City, UT. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Brockmeyer 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.
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A bone and cable girth-hitch technique for atlantoaxial fusion in pediatric patients. Technical note.
- Atlantoaxial transarticular screw fixation: a review of surgical indications, fusion rate, complications, and lessons learned in 67 pediatric patients.
- Expansion of arachnoid cysts in children: report of two cases and review of the literature.
- Diffusion restriction of a spinal arachnoid cyst: case illustration.
- Cervical spine clearance after trauma in children.
- Odontoid synchondrosis fractures in children.
- Cerebral granular cell tumor occurring with glioblastoma multiforme: case report.
- Multilevel cervical disconnection syndrome: initial description, embryogenesis, and management. Report of two cases.
- Morphometric and qualitative analysis of congenital occipitocervical instability in children: implications for patients with Down syndrome.
- Long-term maintenance of cervical alignment after occipitocervical and atlantoaxial screw fixation in young children.
- Cerebrospinal fluid dissecting into spinal epidural space after lumbar puncture causing cauda equina syndrome: review of literature and illustrative case.
- Epidural venous engorgement resulting in progressive cervical myelopathy from shunt-related intracranial hypotension. Case report and review of the literature.
- Cervical spine clearance after trauma in children.
- Glutaric aciduria type 1 presenting as bilateral subdural hematomas mimicking nonaccidental trauma. Case report and review of the literature.
- Selection of a rigid internal fixation construct for stabilization at the craniovertebral junction in pediatric patients.
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