Dr. Maciej S Lesniak MD
Neurosurgeon
675 N SAINT CLAIR ST CHICAGO IL, 60611About
Dr. Maciej Lesniak practices Neurological Surgery in Willowbrook, IL. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Lesniak 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
Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1996
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Solitary central nervous system metastasis from acinic cell carcinoma of the parotid gland.
- Drug delivery to tumors of the central nervous system.
- Gene therapy for experimental brain tumors using a xenogenic cell line engineered to secrete hIL-2.
- Targeted therapy for brain tumours.
- Dexamethasone mediated inhibition of local IL-2 immunotherapy is dose dependent in experimental brain tumors.
- Percival Bailey and the classification of brain tumors.
- Novel advances in drug delivery to brain cancer.
- Local delivery of interleukin-2 and adriamycin is synergistic in the treatment of experimental malignant glioma.
- Immunotherapy for malignant glioma: current approaches and future directions.
- Brain tumors: controversies and challenges in management.
- Oligodendrogliomas: clinical significance of 1p and 19q chromosomal deletions.
- Surgical management of high-grade gliomas.
- Local delivery of doxorubicin for the treatment of malignant brain tumors in rats.
- Targeted gene therapy to antigen-presenting cells in the central nervous system using hematopoietic stem cells.
- Conditionally replicative adenoviral vectors for malignant glioma.
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