Richard W. Byrne, MD

Below is a list of scientific publications for which this practitioner was either the primary author or a contributor. Citations come from PubMed, a database of biomedical literature, life science journals and online books. PubMed is a service of the US Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. Click on the title of the cited work for more information (this will take you directly to PubMed.gov). Listings go back five years.

1. Tailored temporal lobectomy for medically intractable epilepsy: evaluation of pathology and predictors of outcome.
   Falowski SM, Wallace D, Kanner A, Smith M, Rossi M, Balabanov A, Ouyang B, Byrne RW.
   Neurosurgery. 2012
   2012 Sep
   71(3):703-9; discussion 709. doi: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e318262161d.
   
2. Intracranial cotton ball gossypiboma mimicking recurrent meningioma: report of a case with literature review for intentional and unintentional foreign body granulomas.
   Peloquin P, Vannemreddy PS, Watkins LM, Byrne RW.
   Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2012
   2012 Sep
   114(7):1039-41. doi: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2012.01.046. Epub 2012 Feb 22. No abstract available.
   
3. Practice on an Augmented Reality/Haptic Simulator and Library of Virtual Brains Improves Residents' Ability to Perform a Ventriculostomy.
   Yudkowsky R, Luciano C, Banerjee P, Schwartz A, Alaraj A, Lemole GM Jr, Charbel F, Smith K, Rizzi S, Byrne R, Bendok B, Frim D.
   Simul Healthc. 2012
   2012 Oct 31. [Epub ahead of print]
   
4. Cross-immunoreactivity between bacterial aquaporin-Z and human aquaporin-4: potential relevance to neuromyelitis optica.
   Ren Z, Wang Y, Duan T, Patel J, Liggett T, Loda E, Brahma S, Goswami R, Grouse C, Byrne R, Stefoski D, Javed A, Miller SD, Balabanov R.
   J Immunol. 2012
   2012 Nov 1
   189(9):4602-11. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1200486. Epub 2012 Sep 24.
   
5. Temporal lobe gangliogliomas associated with chronic epilepsy: Long-term surgical outcomes.
   Wallace D, Ruban D, Kanner A, Smith M, Pitelka L, Stein J, Vannemreddy PS, Whisler WW, Byrne RW.
   Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2012
   2012 Jun 21. [Epub ahead of print]
   
6. Corpus callosotomy with the CO2 laser suction device: a technical note.
   Falowski S, Byrne R.
   Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 2012
   2012
   90(3):137-40. doi: 10.1159/000336337. Epub 2012 Mar 2.
   
7. Incidental aneurysms in temporal lobe epilepsy surgery: report of three cases and a review of the literature.
   Lad SP, Shannon L, Byrne RW.
   Br J Neurosurg.
   2011 Sep 7
   
8. High-Grade Glioma Relationship to the Neural Stem Cell Compartment: A Retrospective Review of 104 Cases.
   Marsh JC, Wendt JA, Herskovic AM, Diaz A, Gielda BT, Byrne RW.
   Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys.
   2011 May 16
   
9. Temporal lobe pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma and chronic epilepsy: Long-term surgical outcomes.
   Wallace DJ, Byrne RW, Ruban D, Cochran EJ, Roh D, Whisler WW.
   Clin Neurol Neurosurg.
   2011 Jul 6
   
10. Medically intractable temporal lobe epilepsy in patients with normal MRI: surgical outcome in twenty-one consecutive patients.
    Smith AP, Sani S, Kanner AM, Stoub T, Morrin M, Palac S, Bergen DC, Balabonov A, Smith M, Whisler WW, Byrne RW.
    Seizure.
    2011 Jul
    20(6):475-9
    
11. Emergency neurosurgical care solutions: acute care surgery, regionalization, and the neurosurgeon: results of the 2008 CNS consensus session.
    Byrne RW, Bagan BT, Bingaman W, Anderson VC, Selden NR.
    Neurosurgery.
    2011 Apr
    68(4):1063-7; discussion 1067-8.
    
12. Surgical treatment of cerebellar metastases.
    Ghods AJ, Munoz L, Byrne R.
    Surg Neurol Int.
    2011
    2:159
    
13. The history of neurological surgery at Rush University Medical Center
    Boco T, Jobe KW, O'Leary ST, Byrne RW, Whisler WW
    Neurosurgery
    2010 Oct
    67(4):1036-43
    
14. Predicting white matter targets for direct neurostimulation therapy
    Rossi MA, Stebbins G, Murphy C, Greene D, Brinker S, Sarcu D, Tenharmsel A, Stoub T, Stein MA, Hoeppner TJ, Byrne RW, Moseley ME, Bammer RA, Bild S, Dennis J, Arnett N, Balabanov A, Bergen D, Kanner AM, Smith MC
    Epilepsy Res
    2010 Oct
    91(2-3):176-86
    
15. Neuro-critical care skills training using a human patient simulator
    Musacchio MJ Jr, Smith AP, McNeal CA, Munoz L, Rothenberg DM, von Roenn KA, Byrne RW
    Neurocrit Care
    2010 Oct
    13(2):169-75
    
16. Major intratumoral hemorrhage of a petroclival atypical meningioma: case report and review of literature.
    Mangubat EZ, Byrne RW.
    Skull Base.
    2010 Nov
    20(6):469-74.
    
17. Occult middle fossa encephaloceles in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy
    Byrne RW, Smith AP, Roh D, Kanner A
    World Neurosurg
    2010 May
    73(5):541-6
    
18. What's new in neurosurgery: Advances in neurovascular and spine surgery, epilepsy surgery, surgery for movement disorders and intraoperative imaging
    Dohrmann GJ, Byrne RW
    Med Princ Pract
    2010
    19(5):328-9
    
19. A lifetime psychiatric history predicts a worse seizure outcome following temporal lobectomy
    Kanner AM, Byrne R, Chicharro A, Wuu J, Frey M
    Neurology
    2009 Mar 3
    72(9):793-9
    
20. Survival of mossy cells of the hippocampal dentate gyrus in humans with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy
    Seress L, Abrahám H, Horváth Z, Dóczi T, Janszky J, Klemm J, Byrne R, Bakay RA
    J Neurosurg
    2009 Dec
    111(6):1237-47
    
21. Chronic epilepsy associated with temporal tumors: long-term surgical outcome
    Ruban D, Byrne RW, Kanner A, Smith M, Cochran EJ, Roh D, Whisler WW
    Neurosurg Focus
    2009 Aug
    27(2):E6
    
22. Occult cervical (C1-2) dural tear causing bilateral recurrent subdural hematomas and repaired with cervical epidural blood patch
    Buvanendran A, Byrne RW, Kari M, Kroin JS
    J Neurosurg Spine
    2008 Nov
    9(5):483-7
    
23. Neurosurgical emergency transfers to academic centers in Cook County: a prospective multicenter study
    Byrne RW, Bagan BT, Slavin KV, Curry D, Koski TR, Origitano TC
    Neurosurgery
    2008 Mar
    62(3):709-16; discussion 709-16
    
24. Postoperative acute disseminated encephalomyelitis after exposure to microfibrillar collagen hemostat
    Sani S, Boco T, Lewis SL, Cochran E, Patel AJ, Byrne RW
    J Neurosurg
    2008 Jul
    109(1):149-52
    
25. Cervical syrinx as a cause of shoulder pain in 2 athletes
    Lewis PB, Rue JP, Byrne R, Capiola D, Steiner M, Bach BR Jr
    Am J Sports Med
    2008 Jan
    36(1):169-72
    
26. Papillary tumor of the pineal region
    Boco T, Aalaei S, Musacchio M, Byrne R, Cochran E
    Neuropathology
    2008 Feb
    28(1):87-92
    
27. Epidural cylinder electrodes for presurgical evaluation of intractable epilepsy: technical note
    Byrne RW, Jobe KW, Smith MC, Kanner A, Bergen DC, Palac SM, Balabanov AJ, Ajiboye NA, Takagi I, Whisler WW
    Surg Neurol
    2008 Aug
    70(2):160-4; discussion 164
    

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• A majority of my practice is brain tumor surgery. I also do epilepsy surgery, and I do surgery for trigeminal neuralgia and other functional disorders of the nervous system. I’ve gone through this thousands of times, and I’ve operated on well more than a thousand brain tumors. But for them it’s the first time they’ve ever experienced anything like that. And we’re very aware of that. And we understand that patients need to be guided through what can be a very difficult time.

  What we can do today is dramatically different compared to what was possible 50 years ago. Technology, microsurgery, the GPS-tracking technology we use during surgery, the instruments we use — all of these things make neurosurgery much safer than it used to be, and much more effective.