Professor of Neurological Surgery, University Utah
Neurosurgery
Dr. Marion L. Walker, MD
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Doctor Marion L. Walker, MD works in the field of Neurosurgery. He went to medical school at University of Tennessee College of Medicine. He has 4 awards "America's Top Doctors", "Fellow (FACS)", "Fellow (FAANS)" and "Fellow (FAAP)". Dr. Marion L. Walker is a published physician as well. He has 35 publications published. The latest was: Role of dorsal rhizotomy in spinal cord injury-induced spasticity.
Publications
- Role of dorsal rhizotomy in spinal cord Injury-induced spasticity.
- Factors associated with ventricular catheter movement and inaccurate catheter location: post hoc analysis of the Hydrocephalus Clinical Research Network Ultrasound-Gui...
- No significant improvement in the rate of accurate ventricular catheter location using ultrasound-guided CSF shunt insertion: a prospective, controlled study by the Hy...
- Risk factors and rates of bone flap resorption in pediatric patients after decompressive craniectomy for traumatic Brain injury.
- Posterior plagiocephaly.
- Cerebrospinal fluid physiology: problems and possibilities.
- Shunt failure due to intraCranial migration of BioGlide ventricular catheters.
- Shunt survival.
- Selective dorsal rhizotomy in children with spastic hemiparesis.
- Who will care for me next? Transitioning to adulthood with Hydrocephalus.
- The posterior petrosal approach: technique and applications in pediatric neurosurgery.
- Communicating Hydrocephalus in adult rats with kaolin obstruction of the basal cisterns or the cortical subarachnoid space.
- Craniopagus twins.
- Priorities for Hydrocephalus research: report from a National Institutes of Health-sponsored workshop.
- Real-time image-guided direct convective perfusion of intrinsic Brainstem lesions. Technical note.
- Evaluation of the necessity of postoperative imaging after craniosynostosis surgery.
- Predicting slitlike ventricles in children on the basis of baseline characteristics at the time of shunt insertion.
- Effects of congenital hydrocephalus on the hypothalamic gonadotrophin-releasing hormone System.
- Spinal lipomas: clinical spectrum, embryology, and treatment.
- Optic pathway Gliomas: a review.
- Outcomes after decompressive craniectomy for severe traumatic Brain injury in children.
- Management of shunt infections: a multicenter pilot study.
- Retained peritoneal shunt tubing causing hematuria. Case illustration.
- What we don't (but should) know about Hydrocephalus.
- Noncommunicating spinal extradural arachnoid cyst causing spinal cord compression in a child.
- Chiari I malformation in patients with FG syndrome.
- Cranial base strategies for resection of craniopharyngioma in children.
- Clinicopathological review: tumefactive demyelination in a 12-year-old girl.
- Posterior cervical approach for intrathecal baclofen pump insertion in children with previous spinal fusions. Technical note.
- Treatment of Hydrocephalus: mere survival is not enough.
- Adjustment and malfunction of a programmable valve after exposure to toy magnets. Case report.
- Juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma of the Brainstem in children.
- Complications of intraCranial pressure monitoring in children with head trauma.
- Complications of third ventriculostomy.
Schools
University of Tennessee Memphis College of Medicine amp Surgery
Latter Day Saints Hospital
Barrow Neur Institute
Hospital Sick Chldn
Procedures Preformed
- Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Shunt - Insertion, Repair or Removal
- Craniectomy, Craniotomy, Surgery of Skull Base, Neuroendoscopy
- Dural Repair or Other Spinal Spinal Cord Repair
- Epidural Block, Facet Blocks
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Conditions Treated
- Brain and Nervous System Cancer (incl. Gliomas, Astrocytoma, Schwannoma, Medulloblastoma, Chordoma)
- Brain Cancer
- Brain Injury
- Cranial Trauma
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Doctors Specialties
- Neurosurgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- Fellow (FACS)
- Fellow (FAANS)
- Fellow (FAAP)
Education
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Barrow Neurological Institute -
St Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center -
University of Tennessee College of Medicine
Hospital
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University of Utah Health Care - Hospital and Clinics
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1821169913 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | WALKER |
| First Name Of The Provider | MARION |
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