Eliezer Villanueva-Castro

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Eliezer Villanueva-Castro's research focuses on neurological disorders and their treatments, with a particular emphasis on spinal and brain tumors, as well as congenital malformations. He has investigated predictors of poor functional outcomes in adults with type I Chiari Malformation, assessing clinical and surgical factors over long-term follow-up. His work also includes reviews of the WHO classification for spinal ependymomas and case reports on rare conditions such as Foix-Alajouanine Syndrome and mature teratomas in the spinal cord and pineal region. Villanueva-Castro has explored the use of advanced imaging techniques, such as methionine PET imaging, for the efficient detection of oligodendroglioma with 1p/19q codeletion mutation. Additionally, his research has examined surgical outcomes in patients with acromegaly, comparing microscopic and endoscopic transsphenoidal approaches. He has published 41 papers, with an h-index of 4 and 51 total citations.

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• h-index: 4
• Publications: 41
• Citations: 51