Physician

Orthopaedic Surgery

Hammerberg works in the field of Orthopaedic Surgery. He researched medicine at University of Illinois College of Medicine. Hammerberg is a published MD. He has 23 publications published. The most current publication "An open, minimally invasive approach to the lumbar spine."

Publications

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• Behavior of Scoliosis during growth in children with osteogenesis imperfecta.
• Challenges of Spine Surgery in Patients With Chondrodysplasia Punctata.
• Subclavian vein thrombosis after application of body cast.
• Convex Hemiepiphysiodesis: The Limits of Vertebral Stapling.
• Infection after spinal fusion for pediatric spinal Deformity: thirty years of experience at a single institution.
• Iatrogenic thoracic outlet Syndrome secondary to vertical expandable prosthetic titanium rib expansion thoracoplasty: pathogenesis and strategies for prevention/treatm...
• New concepts on the pathogenesis and classification of Spondylolisthesis.
• Evaluation and management of high-grade Spondylolisthesis in adults.
• Long structural allografts in the treatment of anterior Spinal column defects.
• Semirigid instrumentation in the management of lumbar spinal conditions combined With circumferential fusion. A multicenter study.
• Debate: degenerative Scoliosis: to operate or not to operate.
• Scoliosis in Rett syndrome.
• Zielke instrumentation.
• The pattern of vertebral involvement in metastatic vertebral breast cancer.
• An evaluation of spinal Deformity in metastatic breast cancer.
• The Luque trolley revisited. Review of nine cases requiring revision.
• Surgical treatment of metastatic Spine disease.
• Sagittal plane configuration of the Sacrum in spondylolisthesis.
• An open, minimally invasive approach to the lumbar Spine.
• Spine/SRS spondylolisthesis summary statement.
• Selective anterior fusion and instrumentation for the treatment of neuromuscular Scoliosis.
• Intraoperative techniques to reduce the potential of set-screw loosening in long Spinal constructs: a static and fatigue biomechanical investigation.

Schools

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• Univ Of Il Coll Of Med

• RushPresby St Lukes Med Ct

• Yale University

• Traveling Spine Fellowship Deutches Skoliosezentrum Bad Wildengun Germany

• Traveling Spine Fellowship Institut Calot BerckPlage France

Procedures Preformed

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• Derotational Casting
• Growing Rod Surgery
• Herniated Disc Surgery
• Spinal Reconstructive Surgery for Deformities
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Conditions Treated

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• Acrodysplasia Scoliosis
• Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
• Back Pain
• CerebroSpinal Fluid Leak (CSF Leak)
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Doctors Specialties

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• Orthopedic Spine Surgery
• Orthopedic Surgery
• Pediatric Neurological Spine Surgery
• Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery
• Orthopaedic Surgery

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• Rush University Medical Center
• University of Illinois College of Medicine

Hospital

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• Shriners Hospitals for Children-Chicago

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