Dr. Christopher Foley Dowd M.D.
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505 Parnassus Ave L352 San Francisco CA, 94143About
Dr. Christopher Dowd is an expert in the field of interventional neuroradiology, with special interests in treating brain aneurysms and vascular malformations using endovascular techniques. After receiving ...
Board Certification
RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR- Neuroradiology
RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Spinal dural arteriovenous fistula with an associated feeding artery aneurysm: case report.
- Application of a rheolytic thrombectomy device in the treatment of dural sinus thrombosis: a new technique.
- Tandem intracranial stent deployment for treatment of an iatrogenic, flow-limiting, basilar artery dissection: technical case report.
- Treatment of dural arteriovenous malformations and fistulas.
- Subclavian arteritis and pseudoaneurysm formation secondary to stent infection.
- Role of angiography in the evaluation of patients with pulsatile tinnitus.
- Dural arteriovenous fistula associated with prothrombin gene mutation.
- Vascular myelopathies-vascular malformations of the spinal cord: presentation and endovascular surgical management.
- Percutaneous vertebroplasty: an emerging therapy for vertebral compression fractures.
- Combined microsurgical and endovascular management of complex intracranial aneurysms.
- Neurodevelopmental outcome after endovascular treatment of vein of Galen malformations.
- Facial hemangioma and cerebral corticovascular dysplasia: a syndrome associated with epilepsy.
- Endovascular strategies for carotid cavernous and intracerebral dural arteriovenous fistulas.
- Initial clinical experience with a new self-expanding nitinol stent for the treatment of intracranial cerebral aneurysms: the Cordis Enterprise stent.
- Combined microsurgical and endovascular management of complex intracranial aneurysms.
Awards
- 2012 San Francisco Super Doctors
Treatments
- Arteriovenous Malformation, Brain Aneurysm
Fellowships
- UCSF, Neuroradiology 1989
- University of California-SF / San Francisco, CA, Neuroradiology 1987
- University of California-SF / San Francisco, CA, Neuroradiology 1988
- (Radiology), UNIVERSITY CA SF MEDICAL CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 1987
- UCSF, Neuroradiology 1989
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