Dr. Volker K h Sonntag MD
Neurosurgeon
2910 N 3rd Ave Phoenix AZ, 85013About
Dr. Volker Sonntag practices Neurological Surgery in Phoenix, AZ. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Sonntag 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.
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Degenerative lumbar spinal instability: technical aspects of operative treatment.
- A prospective randomized double-blind controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of an analgesic epidural paste following lumbar decompressive surgery.
- Cervical corpectomy: report of 185 cases and review of the literature.
- Stability of the craniovertebral junction after unilateral occipital condyle resection: a biomechanical study.
- Pediatric spine and spinal cord trauma. State of the art for the third millennium.
- Pediatric cervical spine injuries: report of 102 cases and review of the literature.
- Terminology confusion in spinal surgery: laminotomy, laminoplasty, laminectomy.
- Clinical measurement, statistical analysis, and risk-benefit: controversies from trials of spinal injury.
- Spinal surgery: the past century and the next.
- Fatal basilar artery thrombosis after traumatic cervical facet dislocation. Case report.
- Surgical treatment of lumbar spondylolisthesis.
- Letter: Arteritis due to EACA therapy.
- Biomechanics of grade I degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis. Part 1: in vitro model.
- Biomechanics of grade I degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis. Part 2: treatment with threaded interbody cages/dowels and pedicle screws.
- The effects of dexamethasone on bone fusion in an experimental model of posterolateral lumbar spinal arthrodesis.
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