Dr. Nicholas U Ahn MD
Orthopedist
11100 Euclid Ave Cleveland OH, 44106Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Nicholas Ahn is an orthopaedic surgeon practicing in Cleveland, OH. Dr. Ahn specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries, diseases and disorders of the bodys musculoskeletal system. As an orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Ahn tends to bones, ligaments, muscles, joints, nerves and tendons. Orthopaedic surgeons can specialize in certain areas like the hand, spine, hip, foot and ankle, shoulder and elbow or the knee.
Education and Training
Harvard Medical School 1996
Board Certification
Orthopaedic SurgeryAmerican Board of Orthopaedic SurgeryABOS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A comparison of the Berlin and Ghent nosologies and the influence of dural ectasia in the diagnosis of Marfan syndrome.
- Posterior decompressive procedures for the cervical spine.
- Microsurgery for degenerative conditions of the cervical spine.
- Odontoid fracture in a 50-year-old patient presenting 40 years after cervical spine trauma.
- Cauda equina syndrome resulting from treatment of dural ectasia with fibrin glue injection.
- Prevalence of lumbar facet arthrosis and its relationship to age, sex, and race: an anatomic study of cadaveric specimens.
- Does lumbar facet arthrosis precede disc degeneration? A postmortem study.
- Reherniation and failure after lumbar discectomy: a comparison of fragment excision alone versus subtotal discectomy.
- An evaluation of information on the Internet of a new device: the lumbar artificial disc replacement.
- Prevalence of concurrent lumbar and cervical arthrosis: an anatomic study of cadaveric specimens.
- Anatomic variance of interfacet distance and its relationship to facet arthrosis and disk degeneration in the lumbar spine.
- Cement augmentation of refractory osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures:
- Correlation of sacropelvic geometry with disc degeneration in spondylolytic cadaver specimens.
- Cervical endplate and facet arthrosis: an anatomic study of cadaveric specimens.
- Correlation of slipped capital femoral epiphysis with disk degeneration.
Treatments
- Scoliosis, Spine Problems, Spine Surgery And More
- Chronic Pain
- Spondylolisthesis
- Neck Pain
- Back Pain
- Scoliosis
- Pinched Nerve
- Herniated Disc
- Birth Defects
- Pain
- Spinal Stenosis
- Degenerative Disc Disease (ddd)
Fellowships
- Orthopaedic Spine Surgery - Rush University Medical Center 2002
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