Shashikant Patil, MD

Description

Dr. Shashikant Patil joined Piedmont Physicians Neurosurgery after having served as a Neurosurgeon at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas for the last 6 years. He's treated many patients with complex spine and brain problems. He has special interests in minimally invasive methods for treatment of spinal disorders, complex spine instrumentation and reconstruction for adult spinal deformity, spine and brain tumors, peripheral nerve surgery, and motion preserving treatment of degenerative spines. Dr. Patil is Board Certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgeons and is a fellow of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. He earned his medical degree from Kasturba Medical College in Mangalore India and went on to train in neurosurgery at LSU Health Sciences Center, The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and the Hague and Leiden University Medical Center.

Keywords abnormal reflexes], abnormal vertebrae, absent vertebrae, accessory nerve disease, accessory nerve injury, acoustic neuroma, acoustic neuroma removal, acromegaly, action tremor, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy, aneurysm, arachnoid cyst, arm weakness, arnold chiari malformation, arterial malformation brain, arteriovenous malformation (avm), astrocytoma tumors, autoimmune encephalopathy, autonomic nervous system disorders, back surgery, balance testing, benign neoplasm of brain, benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, berry aneurysm, biopsy of brain, biopsy of skull, body awareness disorder, bone cyst, bone tumor, botox for migraines, brachial nerve tumors, brachial plexus injury, brain laceration, brain neoplasms, brain surgery, bulging disc, burr hole, carotid endarterectomy, carotid stenosis, cauda equina syndrome, cavernous hemangioma, cavernous sinus thrombosis, central nervous system abscess, cerebellar anomalies, cerebellar ataxia, cerebellar disease, cerebellar heterotopia, cerebellar tremor, cerebellar tumor, cerebral aneurysm, cerebral anomalies, cerebral cyst, cerebral decompression, cerebral edema, cerebral hernia, cerebral laceration, cerebral lipidosis, cerebrospinal fluid abnormalities, cerebrospinal fluid leak, cerebrospinal fluid leak headache, cerebrovascular accident (cva), cervical laminoplasty, cervical spinal stenosis, cervical spine fracture, cervical spine fusion, cervical spine injury, chiari decompression, chordoma, choroid plexus tumor, cingulotomy, clipping of brain aneurysm, clivus chondroma, cns lymphoma, colloid cyst, compression fracture, congenital cerebral hernia, cordotomy, corpus callosotomy, cortical mapping, corticobasal degeneration, cranial nerve disorders, cranial nerve injury, cranial nerve palsy, cranial nerve repair, cranial puncture, cranial vault malformations, craniectomy, craniocele, craniopharyngioma, craniorachischisis, craniosynostosis, craniotomy, cranium bifidum, csf shunt removal, decompression laminectomy, decompression median nerve at elbow, deep brain stimulation, deep brain stimulation (asleep), deep brain stimulation (awake).