Dr. Edwin S Gurdjian M.D.
Neurosurgeon
13920 Arbuckle Rd Union City PA, 16438About
Dr. Edwin Gurdjian practices Neurological Surgery in Union City, PA. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Gurdjian 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
Wayne State Univ Sch of Med, Detroit Mi 1961
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Re-evaluation of the biomechanics of blunt impact injury of the head.
- Cerebral contusions: re-evaluation of the mechanism of their development.
- Stroke resulting from internal carotid artery thrombosis in the neck.
- Chronic subdural hematoma; diagnostic considerations.
- Paget's disease of the spine with compression of the spinal cord.
- Quantitative determination of acceleration and intracranial pressure in experimental head injury; preliminary report.
- Recent advances in the knowledge of the mechanism, diagnosis and treatment of head injury.
- The relative accuracy of electroencephalography, air studies and angiography.
- The surgical management of traumatic caranionasal fistulas.
- Osteitis deformans with spinal cord compression; report of three cases.
- Observations on prediction of fracture site in head injury.
- The significance of negative neurosurgical diagnostic procedures.
- Brachial radicular syndrome due to cervical herniated or ruptured nucleus pulposus based on forty-three operated cases.
- Studies on experimental concussion: relation of physiologic effect to time duration of intracranial pressure increase at impact.
- Blood chemistry studies in bilateral ligation of the anterior cerebral arteries.
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