Assistant Professor, Surgery-Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School

Neurosurgery

Ekkehard M. Kasper, MD practices Neurosurgery. He has 2 awards "Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification" and "Fellow (FAANS)". Ekkehard M. Kasper, MD is a published doctor as well. He has 50 publications published. The latest was: Sexual activity as a trigger for intracranial hemorrhage. He accepts Medicare.

Publications

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• Sexual activity as a trigger for intracranial Hemorrhage.
• Non-metastatic squamous cell carcinoma within a Rathke's cleft cyst.
• Shunting for Hydrocephalus: analysis of techniques and failure patterns.
• Fibrin sealant augmentation with autologous pericranium for duraplasty after suboccipital decompression in Chiari 1 patients: A case series.
• Extent of resection and radiotherapy in GBM: A 1973 to 2007 surveillance, epidemiology and end results analysis of 21,783 patients.
• "Time is Brain" the Gifford factor - or: Why do some civilian gunshot wounds to the head do unexpectedly well? A case series with outcomes analysis and a management gu...
• "Hitting all the right markers to save a life" Solitary fibrous tumors of the central Nervous system: Case series and review of the literature.
• Staged scalp soft tissue expansion before delayed allograft cranioplasty: a technical report.
• Augmented Autologous Pericranium Duraplasty in 100 Posterior Fossa Surgeries - A Retrospective Case Series.
• Epilepsy Gene LGI1 Regulates Postnatal Developmental Remodeling of Retinogeniculate Synapses.
• Health care and socioeconomic impact of falls in the elderly.
• Management of Entrapped Temporal Horn by Temporal Horn to Prepontine Cistern Shunting.
• Quo Vadis, Academia? Can Academic Neurosurgery Be Resurrected?
• Cyberknife hypofractionated stereotactic radiosurgery (HSRS) of resection cavity after excision of large Cerebral metastasis: efficacy and safety of an 800 cGy × 3 dai...
• A review of Lumbar spinal instrumentation: evidence and controversy.
• Predicting postoperative Hydrocephalus in 227 patients with skull base meningioma.
• 18Fluoroethyl-L-tyrosine-PET in long-term Epilepsy associated glioneuronal tumors.
• Antiplatelet agents, warfarin, and epidemic intracranial Hemorrhage.
• Microdysgenesis: Historical roots of an important concept in Epilepsy.
• Survival after concurrent traumatic dislocation of the atlanto-occipital and atlanto-axial joints: a case report and review of the literature.
• Bilateral telovelar approach: A safe route revisited for resections of various large fourth ventricle Tumors.
• Primary Extradural Tumors of the Spine - Case Review with Evidence-guided Management.
• Cellular myxoma of the lumbar Spine.
• Hemicraniectomy in the management of malignant middle Cerebral artery infarction: Lessons from randomized, controlled trials.
• Diagnostic yield of stereotactic needle-biopsies of sub-cubic centimeter intracranial lesions.
• Anesthetic management of supratentorial Tumors.
• Drain associated meningitis and ventriculitis remains a pivotal problem in neurointensive care: to understand their causes we need better surveillance data.
• Neurosurgical education in Europe and the United States of America.
• Neuropathology of Epilepsy and psychosis: the contributions of J.A.N. Corsellis.
• Resolving controversies in neurosurgery through randomized controlled trials.
• Cranio-Spinal migration of a metallic clip placed during arteriovenous malformation resection - A case report, review of the literature, and management strategies.
• A pregnant female with a large intracranial mass: Reviewing the evidence to obtain management guidelines for intracranial Meningiomas during pregnancy.
• Retained transorbital foreign body with intracranial extension after pipe bomb explosion.
• Posterior leukoencephalopathy following repair of an ileocecal anastomosis breakdown: a case report and review of the literature.
• Histiocytosis X: Characteristics, behavior, and treatments as illustrated in a case series.
• Post-transplant aspergillosis and the role of combined neurosurgical and antifungal therapies under belatacept immunosuppression.
• The value of extended glioblastoma resection: Insights from randomized controlled trials.
• Palliative stereotactic-endoscopic third ventriculostomy for the treatment of obstructive hydrocephalus from Cerebral metastasis.
• Clinical outcome after hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (HSRT) for benign skull base Tumors.
• Phenomenology of hallucinations, illusions, and delusions as part of seizure semiology.
• Neurosurgical management of leukoencephalopathy, Cerebral calcifications, and cysts: A case report and review of literature.
• Src homology domain-containing phosphatase 2 suppresses cellular senescence in glioblastoma.
• Stereotactic body radiotherapy reirradiation for recurrent epidural Spinal metastases.
• Illusion of stroke: intravascular lymphomatosis.
• Lateral sacral artery Aneurysm of the lumbar spine: hemorrhage resulting in cauda equina syndrome.
• Deep Brain stimulation of the anterior internal capsule for the treatment of Tourette syndrome: technical case report.
• Incidental stereotactic diagnosis of Cerebral insults.
• The relation between Cerebral blood flow velocities as measured by TCD and the incidence of delayed ischemic deficits. A prospective study after subarachnoid hemorrhage.
• The relationship between Cerebral blood flow velocities and the amount of blood clots in computed tomography after subarachnoid haemorrhage.

Procedures Preformed

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• CerebroSpinal Fluid (CSF) Shunt - Insertion, Repair or Removal
• Craniectomy, Craniotomy, Surgery of Skull Base, Neuroendoscopy
• Deep Brain Stimulation
• Dural Repair or Other Spinal Spinal Cord Repair
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Conditions Treated

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• Acoustic Neuroma
• Brain and Nervous System Cancer (incl. Gliomas, Astrocytoma, Schwannoma, Medulloblastoma, Chordoma)
• Brain Aneurysm
• Brain Cancer
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Doctors Specialties

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• Neurosurgery

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
• Fellow (FAANS)

Education

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• Massachusetts General Hospital
• Albert Ludwigs University Faculty of Medicine

Hospital

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• Mount Auburn Hospital
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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Medicare Facts

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National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1053354852
Last Name Of The Provider	KASPER
First Name Of The Provider	EKKEHARD
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