Gregory P. Lekovic , M.D.

MD, University of Illinois at Chicago

Residency in Neurological Surgery, Barrow Neurological Institute, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Phoenix, AZ

Residency in General Survery (Internship), Phoenix Integrated Surgical Residency Program, Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ

Fellowship in Cerebrovascular/Skull Base Surgery, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ

Complex Spine Fellowship, Barrow Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ

Sterotatic Radiosurgery Fellowship, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• Resident Member, Congress of Neurological Surgeons 2001-
  
• Resident Member, AANS 2001-
  
• Serbian-American Medical and Dental Society 1993-

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Gregory P. Lekovic, Louis J. Kim, L. Fernando Gonzalez, Alden Bice, Felipe C. Albuquerque, Cameron McDougall. Radiation exposure during endovascular procedures. Neurosurgery (in press 2008).
L. Fernando Gonzalez, Dixie Patterson, Gregory P. Lekovic, Peter Nakaji, and Robert F. Spetzler. Endoscopic harvesting of the radial artery in neurosurgery: technical note. Neurosurgical Focus (in press 2008).
Gregory P. Lekovic, Susan Williams, John Karis, Stephen Coons, Iman Feiz-Erfan, Louis Kim, and William L. White. Clinicopathological Review: Pituitary Tumor presenting with Epistaxis. Neurosurgery (in press 2008).
Gregory P. Lekovic, L. Fernando Gonzalez, Peter Weisskopf, and Kris A. Smith. Hearing Improvement after Resection of a Large Jugular Foramen Schwannoma: Case Report. Skull Base: An Interdisciplinary Approach (in press 2008).
Kemal Yucesoy, Zafer Yuksel, Ercan Ozer, Murvet Yuksel, Gregory P. Lekovic. Surgical management of Tarlov (perineural) cysts: Report of seven cases with long term follow-up. Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine (in press 2008)
Seref Dogan, Gregory P. Lekovic, Nicholas Theodore, Eric M. Horn, Jennifer Eschbacher, Harold L. Rekate. Primary thoracolumbar Ewing’s Sarcoma presenting as isolated epidural mass. The Spine Journal (Jan 2008).
Gregory P. Lekovic, L. Fernando Gonzalez, Andrew G. Shetter, Randall W. Porter, Kris A. Smith, David Brachman, and Robert F. Spetzler. Role of Gamma Knife surgery in the management of pineal region tumors. Neurosurgical Focus 23(6): E12 (2007).
Gregory P. Lekovic, Eric A. Potts, Dean G. Karahalios, and Graham Hall. Image-Guided Thoracic Pedicle Screw Placement: A Comparison of Two Techniques. Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine 7: 393-398 (2007).
Iman Feiz-Erfan, Eric M. Horn, Nicholas Theodore, Joseph M. Zabramski, Jeffrey D. Klopfenstein, Ruth E. Bristol, Jonathan S. Hott, Louis J. Kim, Gregory P. Lekovic, Felipe C. Albuquerque, Randall W. Porter, Shahram Partovi, Pamela W. Goslar, Scott R. Petersen. Incidence and Pattern of Direct Blunt Neurovascular Injury Associated with Trauma to the Skull Base. Journal of Neurosurgery 107: 364-369 (2007).
L. Fernando Gonzalez, Gregory P. Lekovic, Jennifer Eschbacher, Stephen Coons and Robert F. Spetzler. True Malignant Schwannoma of the Eighth Nerve. Neurosurgery 61(2): E421-E422 (2007).
Louis J. Kim, Gregory P. Lekovic, William L. White, and John Karis. Preliminary Experience with 3T MRI and Cushing’s Disease. Skull Base: An Interdisciplinary Approach 17(4): 273-278 (2007).
Gregory P. Lekovic, Patrick P. Han, Kathy Kenny, and Curtis A. Dickman. Bone Dowels in Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion. Journal of Spinal Disorders and Techniques 20(5): 374-379 (2007).
Gregory P. Lekovic, Brenda Baker, Jill M. Lekovic, and Mark Preul. New World Cranial Deformation Practices: Implications for Pathophysiology of Cognitive Impairment in Deformational Plagiocephaly. Neurosurgery 60(6): 1137-1147. (2007).
Eric M. Horn, Iman Fiez-erfan, Ruth E. Bristol, Gregory P. Lekovic, Pam Goslar, Kris Smith, Peter Nakaji, and Robert F. Spetzler. Treatment Options for Third Ventricular Colloid Cysts: Comparison of Open Microsurgical versus Endoscopic Resection. Neurosurgery April 60(4):613-8 (2007).
Gregory P. Lekovic and Timothy Harrington. Litigation of Missed Cervical Spine Injuries in Patients Presenting with Blunt Traumatic Injury. Neurosurgery 60(3): 516-22 (2007).
Eric M. Horn, Iman Feiz-Erfan, Gregory P. Lekovic, Curtis A. Dickman, Volker KH Sonntag, and Nicholas Theodore. Survivors of occipitoatlantal dislocation injuries: imaging and clinical correlates. Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine Feb; 6(2): 113-20 (2007).
L. Fernando Gonzalez, Gregory P. Lekovic, Jennifer Eschbacher, Steven Coons, Randal W. Porter, and Robert F. Spetzler. Are cavernous sinus hemangiomas and cavernous malformations different entities? Neurosurgical Focus Jul 15; 21 (1):e6 (2006).
Gregory P. Lekovic, L. Fernando Gonzalez, Vini G. Khurana, Robert F. Spetzler. Intra-Operative Rupture of Brainstem Cavernous Malformation: Case Report. Neurosurgical Focus Jul 15; 21 (1):e14 (2006).
Eric M. Horn, Vivek Deshmukh, Gregory P. Lekovic, and Curtis A. Dickman. Complete Durectomy with Dural Reconstruction for Treatment of Recurrent Thoracic Meningioma. Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine Jul; 5(1): 76-8 (2006).
Eric M. Horn, Nicholas Theodore, Iman Feiz-Erfan, Gregory P. Lekovic, Curtis A. Dickman, Volker K.H. Sonntag. Complications of Halo Fixation in the Elderly. Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine Jul; 5(1):46-9 (2006).
Gregory P. Lekovic, Harold L. Rekate, Curtis A. Dickman, Margaret Pearson. Congenital Cervical Instability in a Patient with Camptomelic Dysplasia: Case Report. Child’s Nervous System (March 2006).
Gregory P. Lekovic, Eric M. Horn, and Curtis A. Dickman. Hyperextension-Distraction Injury to Thoracic Spine Treated with Thoracoscopic Dual-Rod Fixation. The Spine Journal. 6(3): 330-334 (2006).
Gregory P. Lekovic, L. Fernando Gonzales, Iman Feiz-Erfan and Harold L. Rekate. Endoscopic Resection of Hypothalamic Hamartoma with a Novel Variable-Aspiration Tissue Resection Device. Neurosurgery 58[ONS Supp 1]: ONS-166-ONS-169 (2006).
Gregory P. Lekovic, Nittin R. Mariwalla, Eric M. Horn, Steven Chang, Harold L. Rekate, and Nicholas Theodore. Skeletal dysplasia involving the subaxial cervical spine. Neurosurgical Focus 20(2): E8 (2006).
Eric M. Horn, Gregory P. Lekovic, Iman Feiz-Erfan, Volker K.H. Sonntag, and Nicholas Theodore. Cervical magnetic resonance imaging abnormalities not predictive of cervical spine instability in traumatically injured patients. Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine, 1:39-42 (2004).
Gregory P. Lekovic. Gene Diagnosis and Intellecutal Property Rights: A
Proposal to Amend “The Physician Immunity Statute”. Yale Journal of Health Law, Policy and Ethics, IV(2): 275-304 (2004).
Gregory P. Lekovic. Synaptic Currents Mediating Efferent Inhibition in the Turtle Cochlea. Ph.D. Thesis. University of Illinois at Chicago. 1999.
Ticho SR , Stojanovic M, Lekovic G, Radulovacki, M. Effects of ethanol injection to the preoptic area on sleep and temperature in rats. Alcohol. May-Jun;9(3):275-8. 1992.

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