Clinical Associate, Neurosurgery, Tufts Medical Center
Neurosurgery
Dr. Mina G. Safain, MD
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Dr. Mina G. Safain is an expert in the field of Neurosurgery. He researched medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. Yale University School of Medicine is one of the top medical schools in the US. Yale University School of Medicine has a rank of 7 in research and a 57 in primary care Mina Safain is also published. He has 32 publications published. The lastest publication: "Iatrogenic Spinal Cord Injury during Removal of the Inferior Articular Process in the Presence of Ossification of the Ligamentum Flavum.'
Publications
- An endoscopic assisted retrosigmoid approach to the cerebello-pontine angle for resection of an epidermoid cyst.
- Utilization of Cone-Beam Computed Tomographic Angiography in Planning for Gamma Knife Radiosurgery of Arteriovenous Malformations: A Case Series and Early Report.
- Spontaneous atraumatic vertebral artery occlusion due to physiological cervical extension.
- The effect of spinal osteotomies on spinal cord tension and dural buckling: a cadaveric study.
- A review of the combined medical and surgical management in patients with herpes simplex encephalitis.
- Successful management of an acute subdural hematoma in a patient dependent on continuous treprostinil infusion therapy.
- Management of spinal cord injury-related scoliosis using pedicle screw-only constructs.
- A novel classification system of lumbar disc degeneration.
- Widening of the basilar bifurcation angle: association with presence of intracranial aneurysm, age, and female sex.
- Delayed progressive bilateral supraclinoid internal carotid artery stenosis in a patient with a ruptured basilar artery aneurysm.
- Widening and high inclination of the middle cerebral artery bifurcation are associated with presence of aneurysms.
- Curvature effect on hemodynamic conditions at the inner bend of the carotid siphon and its relation to aneurysm formation.
- Neuro-ophthalmic effects of stenting across the ophthalmic artery origin in the treatment of intracranial aneurysms.
- Pigmented villonodular synovitis of the thoracic spine.
- Superior performance of cone-beam CT angiography in characterization of intracranial atherosclerosis.
- Loss of correction in spinal cord injury-related scoliosis after pedicle screw fixation.
- Lateral retroperitoneal transpsoas approach to the lumbar spine for the treatment of spondylodiscitis.
- Postpartum internal carotid and vertebral arterial dissections.
- Enterprise stenting for intracranial aneurysm treatment induces dynamic and reversible age-dependent stenosis in cerebral arteries.
- Stent recanalization of carotid tonsillar loop dissection using the Enterprise vascular reconstruction device.
- Pediatric iatrogenic thoracic kyphosis and tension myelopathy treated with a thoracic pedicle subtraction osteotomy: a case report and review of the literature.
- Blood Pressure Regulation to Prevent Progression of Blunt Traumatic Intracranial Hemorrhage in Stable Patients.
- Double waffle-cone technique using twin Solitaire detachable stents for treatment of an ultra-wide necked aneurysm.
- Use of concentric Solitaire stent to anchor Pipeline flow diverter constructs in treatment of shallow cervical carotid dissecting pseudoaneurysms.
- High curvature of the internal carotid artery is associated with the presence of intracranial aneurysms.
- Nerve root anomalies: implications for transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion surgery and a review of the Neidre and Macnab classification system.
- Arachnoid cyst slit valves: the mechanism for arachnoid cyst enlargement.
- A single center's experience with the bedside subdural evacuating port system: a useful alternative to traditional methods for chronic subdural hematoma evacuation.
- Double-barrel entanglement of intracranial Enterprise stents resulting from undetected incomplete stent apposition.
- Repeated adolescent 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) exposure in rats attenuates the effects of a subsequent challenge with MDMA or a 5-hydroxytryptamine(1A) r...
- Iatrogenic Spinal Cord Injury during Removal of the Inferior Articular Process in the Presence of Ossification of the Ligamentum Flavum.
Schools
Yale University
Doctors Specialties
- Neurosurgery
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Education
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Yale University School of Medicine -
Tufts Medical Center
Hospital
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Tufts Medical Center
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