Professor of Pathology, Professor of Neurological Surgery, Professor of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Director, Surgical Neuropathology, Director, Oncologic Neuropathology Service
Pathology
Dr. Peter C. Burger, MD
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Dr. Peter C. Burger practices Pathology. He went to medical school at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is ranked 19/29 in Research/PrimaryCare. He received 6 awards: "America's Top Doctors", "America's Top Doctors for Cancer", "Top Doctors:Baltimore Area", "Top Doctors:Washington-Baltimore", "Super Doctor" and "Top MD". Peter C. Burger, MD is a published doctor as well. He has 100 publications published. The latest was: Phase 2 study of concurrent radiotherapy and temozolomide followed by temozolomide and lomustine in the treatment of children with high-grade glioma: a report of the C... Peter C. Burger, MD is registered with Medicare.
Publications
- NAB2-STAT6 Gene Fusion in Meningeal Hemangiopericytoma and Solitary Fibrous Tumor.
- Outcome and prognostic factors for children with supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumors treated with carboplatin during radiotherapy: A report from the Childr...
- High rate of concurrent BRAF-KIAA1549 gene fusion and 1p deletion in disseminated oligodendroglioma-like leptomeningeal neoplasms (DOLN).
- Steroid-responsive intracranial germinoma presenting as Holmes' tremor: Importance of a tissue diagnosis.
- Expression of the pituitary stem/progenitor marker GFRα2 in human pituitary adenomas and normal pituitary.
- PD-1, PD-L1, PD-L2 expression in the chordoma microenvironment.
- Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma: Natural History and Long-term Follow-up.
- International Society of Neuropathology-Haarlem Consensus Guidelines, for Nervous System Tumor Classification and Grading.
- Clinicopathologic Features of Pediatric Oligodendrogliomas: A Series of 50 Patients.
- Definition of Primary and Secondary Glioblastoma--Response.
- Invasive adenoma and pituitary carcinoma: a SEER database analysis.
- Benefit from prolonged dose-intensive chemotherapy for infants with malignant brain tumors is restricted to patients with ependymoma: a report of the Pediatric Oncolog...
- NY-ESO-1 Expression in Meningioma Suggests a Rationale for New Immunotherapeutic Approaches.
- Desmoid Tumor Formation following Posterior Spinal Instrumentation Placement.
- Morphologic characteristics and immunohistochemical profile of diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas.
- Long-term survival of children less than six years of age enrolled on the CCG-945 phase III trial for newly-diagnosed high-grade glioma: A report from the Children's O...
- High-Risk Medulloblastoma: A Pediatric Oncology Group Randomized Trial of Chemotherapy Before or After Radiation Therapy (POG 9031).
- Histopathological correlates with survival in reoperated glioblastomas.
- Spinal cord tumours: advances in genetics and their implications for treatment.
- Diffusion Tensor Imaging in a Child with Hypertrophic Olivary Degeneration.
- Use of personalized molecular biomarkers in the clinical care of adults with glioblastomas.
- Frequent ATRX, CIC, and FUBP1 mutations refine the classification of malignant gliomas.
- BRAF Alterations in Primary Glial and Glioneuronal Neoplasms of the Central Nervous System With Identification of 2 Novel KIAA1549: BRAF Fusion Variants.
- Medulloblastoma with myogenic differentiation: long-term survival in a patient treated with aggressive combination therapy and autologous stem cell transplantation.
- Primary Neurosurgery for Pediatric Low-Grade Gliomas: A Prospective Multi-Institutional Study From the Children's Oncology Group.
- Papillary tumor of the pineal region in a 15-month-old boy.
- Cortical ependymoma: an unusual epileptogenic lesion.
- Temozolomide in the treatment of high-grade gliomas in children: a report from the Children's Oncology Group.
- PAX2(-)/PAX8(-)/inhibin A(+) immunoprofile in hemangioblastoma: A helpful combination in the differential diagnosis with metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma to ...
- The genetic landscape of the childhood cancer medulloblastoma.
- Spectrum of pilomyxoid astrocytomas: intermediate pilomyxoid tumors.
- Prognostic factors in pediatric high-grade astrocytoma: the importance of accurate pathologic diagnosis.
- Traumatic facial nerve neuroma with facial palsy presenting in infancy.
- Lipoglioblastoma: a lipidized glioma radiologically and histologically mimicking adipose tissue.
- Anaplasia in pilocytic astrocytoma predicts aggressive behavior.
- Defining future directions in spinal cord tumor research: proceedings from the National Institutes of Health workshop.
- Rapid malignant transformation of low-grade astrocytomas: report of 2 cases and review of the literature.
- Twenty-year survival in glioblastoma: a case report and molecular profile.
- Multifocal complex glioneuronal tumor in an elderly man: an autopsy study: case report.
- Intramedullary amputation neuromas associated with spinal ependymomas.
- Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors of cranial nerves and intracranial contents: a clinicopathologic study of 17 cases.
- Angiocentric glioma: a case series.
- Embryonal tumors with abundant neuropil and true rosettes: a distinctive CNS primitive neuroectodermal tumor.
- Intensive multimodality treatment for children with newly diagnosed CNS atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor.
- Extent of surgical resection is independently associated with survival in patients with hemispheric infiltrating low-grade gliomas.
- Frequent gains at chromosome 7q34 involving BRAF in pilocytic astrocytoma.
- Outcome analysis of childhood low-grade astrocytomas.
- Ependymal tumors with sarcomatous change ("ependymosarcoma"): a clinicopathologic and molecular cytogenetic study.
- Pathologist interobserver variability of histologic features in childhood brain tumors: results from the CCG-945 study.
- Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the central nervous system and its relationship to inflammatory pseudotumor.
- Issues of diagnostic review in brain tumor studies: from the Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium.
- The prognostic value of histological grading of posterior fossa ependymomas in children: a Children's Oncology Group study and a review of prognostic factors.
- High-grade astrocytoma in very young children.
- Histopathologic grading of adult medulloblastomas.
- Gliosarcoma arising in oligodendroglial tumors ("oligosarcoma"): a clinicopathologic study.
- Intracavernous trigeminal ganglion amyloidoma: case report.
- Clinicopathologic aspects of 1p/19q loss and the diagnosis of oligodendroglioma.
- Phase III study of craniospinal radiation therapy followed by adjuvant chemotherapy for newly diagnosed average-risk medulloblastoma.
- Concomitant conus medullaris ependymoma and filum terminale lipoma: case report.
- Complex choristoma of the gyrus rectus: a distinct clinicopathologic entity?
- Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging to differentiate between nonneoplastic lesions and brain tumors in children.
- c-myc overexpression causes anaplasia in medulloblastoma.
- Neurocytoma of the VIIIth cranial nerve: case report.
- The prognostic impact of histology and 1p/19q status in anaplastic oligodendroglial tumors.
- Monomorphous angiocentric glioma: a distinctive epileptogenic neoplasm with features of infiltrating astrocytoma and ependymoma.
- Clinicopathologic and genetic profile of intracranial marginal zone lymphoma: a primary low-grade CNS lymphoma that mimics meningioma.
- Autoimmune hypophysitis.
- Isochromosome 17q is a negative prognostic factor in poor-risk childhood medulloblastoma patients.
- Pharmacotherapy of congestive heart failure in elderly patients.
- INI1 protein expression distinguishes atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor from choroid plexus carcinoma.
- Pineal gland lesions: a cytopathologic study of 20 specimens.
- Atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor of the brain: cytopathologic characteristics and differential diagnosis.
- Lhermitte-Duclos disease: a report of 31 cases with immunohistochemical analysis of the PTEN/AKT/mTOR pathway.
- Investigation of human brain tumors for the presence of polyomavirus genome sequences by two independent laboratories.
- Small cell astrocytoma: an aggressive variant that is clinicopathologically and genetically distinct from anaplastic oligodendroglioma.
- Transmission of glioblastoma multiforme following bilateral lung transplantation from an affected donor: case study and review of the literature.
- Immunohistochemical detection of EGFRvIII in high malignancy grade astrocytomas and evaluation of prognostic significance.
- ICAM-1 and beta2 integrin deficiency impairs fat oxidation and insulin metabolism during fasting.
- Histopathological and molecular prognostic markers in medulloblastoma: c-myc, N-myc, TrkC, and anaplasia.
- Biologic risk stratification of medulloblastoma: the real time is now.
- Imaging findings of CNS atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumors.
- Molecular diagnosis of metastasizing oligodendroglioma: a case report.
- Hypertrophic neuropathy of the cauda equina: case report.
- Gliosarcoma: cytopathologic characteristics on fine-needle aspiration (FNA) and intraoperative touch imprint.
- Pilocytic and pilomyxoid hypothalamic/chiasmatic astrocytomas.
- Pilomyxoid astrocytoma: a review.
- Metalloproteinase inhibitors improve the recovery and hemostatic function of in vitro-aged or -injured mouse platelets.
- Platelets in inflammation and thrombosis.
- Rhabdoid meningioma: cytopathologic findings in cerebrospinal fluid.
- Clinical utility of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) in morphologically ambiguous gliomas with hybrid oligodendroglial/astrocytic features.
- Supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumors of infancy: clinical and radiologic findings.
- Primary Intraosseous Skull Base Cavernous Hemangioma: Case Report.
- MR imaging characteristics of pilomyxoid astrocytomas.
- Outcome of children with centrally reviewed low-grade gliomas treated with chemotherapy with or without radiotherapy on Children's Cancer Group high-grade glioma study...
- Melanocytic colonization of a meningothelial meningioma: histopathological and ultrastructural findings with immunohistochemical and genetic correlation: case report.
- hTERT gene amplification and increased mRNA expression in central nervous system embryonal tumors.
- Keratinized squamous cells in fine needle aspiration of the brain. Cytopathologic correlates and differential diagnosis.
- Platelet P-selectin facilitates atherosclerotic lesion development.
- Phase 2 study of concurrent radiotherapy and temozolomide followed by temozolomide and lomustine in the treatment of children with high-grade glioma: a report of the C...
Schools
Northwestern Center Feinberg School of Medicine
Duke University Med Center
Doctors Specialties
- Neuropathology
- Pathology
Accepted Insurances
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- Open Access Plus
- Commercial Insurance Company
- Coventry Health Care
- Emblem Health
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- HealthSmart
- Humana
- Medicaid
- Medicare MCR
- United Healthcare
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- America's Top Doctors for Cancer
- Top Doctors:Baltimore Area
- Top Doctors:Washington-Baltimore
- Super Doctor
- Top MD
Education
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Duke University Hospital -
University of Southern California - LAC+USC Medical Center -
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Hospital
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Johns Hopkins Hospital
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1114985603 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | BURGER |
| First Name Of The Provider | PETER |
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