Tobias Alecio Mattei MD

PubMed

• Spinal gunshot wounds: A systematic review of the literature.
  Madhav Sankhyan, Sajni Amin, Kathleen S Botterbush, Jorge F Urquiaga, Emma Dwyer
  North American Spine Society Journal. 2025-09-01
• A detailed account of Christopher Reeve's spinal cord injury, its treatment, and its impact upon research 30 years later.
  Kathleen S Botterbush, Maaria Chaudhry, Justin K Zhang, Philippe Mercier, Tobias A Mattei
  Journal of Neurosurgery. Spine. 2025-08-29
• Wrong-Side Procedures in Neurosurgery: A Detailed Review of Reported Events and Outcomes of Litigation in the Past 40 Years in the United States.
  Luke Schwetschenau, Kathleen S Botterbush, Nigel Maglasang, Lawson E Spence, Justin K Zhang
  World Neurosurgery. 2025-08-21

Journal Articles

• Memory Transplantation and Learning by Proxy? A Sober Assessment of the Popularly Acclaimed ‘Snails’ Experiment’  
  Tobias Mattei, MD, World Neurosurgery
• Lumbar Fusion Outcome Score (LUFOS): A new surgical- oriented grading system for pre-operative prediction of long-term clinical outcomes after lumbar spinal fusion for...  
  Mattei TA, Rehman AA, J Neurosurg Spine, 1/1/2014
• Pathophysiology of Spinal Subdural Hematomas: the Role of Venous Congestion  
  Mattei TA, Dinh DR, Med Hypothesis, 1/1/2014
• En-bloc Resection of Malignant Primary Bone Tumors of the Cervical Spine  
  Mattei TA, Mendel E, Acta Neurochir, 1/1/2014
• Non-Homeomorphic Topological Transformations and the Challenge of Collision Detection in Virtual Reality Simulation in Neurosurgery  
  Mattei TA, World Neurosurg, 12/16/2013
• Vertebral compression fractures in patients under treatment with denosumab: A Contra-indication for percutaneous vertebroplasty?  
  Mattei, TA, Mendel E, Bourekas EC, Spine J, 12/5/2013
• Treatment of Complex Spinal Deformities in the Setting of Osteoporosis: a Critical Literature Review on Available Adjuvant Medical Therapies and Surgical Techniques fo...  
  Mattei TA, Goualrt CR, Fassett DR, Mendel E, Neurosurg Rev, 12/1/2013
• Benign Extracerebral Fluid Collection of Infancy as a Risk Factor for Development of ‘de novo’ Intracranial Arachnoid Cysts  
  Mattei TA, Sambhara D, Bond BJ, Goulart CR, Lin JJ, J Neurosurg Pediatr, 12/1/2013
• The secret is at the crossways: Non-linear dynamics of neural networks underlying new memories encoding during dreams  
  Mattei TA, Behav Brain Sci, 12/1/2013
• Sustained Long- term Complete Regression of a Giant Cell Tumor of the Spine after Treatment with Denosumab  
  Mattei TA, Ramos E,. Rehman AA, Shaw A, Patel SR, Mendel E, The Spine Journal, 12/1/2013
• ‘Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit’: Massive Funding promises a Golden Decade of Functional Brain Research  
  Mattei TA, World Neurosurg, 11/26/2013
• Redundans Nervi Radix Cauda Equina: Critical Remarks on the Pathophysiology and Clinical Significance of an Intriguing Radiological Sign  
  Mattei TA, Mendel E, World Neurosurg, 10/22/2013
• Response: A New Era of Surgical Training: The Advent of Patient-specific Simulation  
  Mattei TA, Lin JJ, J Neurosurg Pediatr, 10/1/2013
• Does ‘age’ really matter? Important considerations regarding clinical outcomes in spine surgery with special attention to traumatic spine injuries in the elderly popul...  
  Mattei TA, Spine J, 8/1/2013
• Post-operative Cement Augmentation after 360- degree Fusion for Highly Unstable Vertebral Fractures in patients with Multiple Myeloma: A Technical Note on the new Extr...  
  Mattei TA, Bourekas E, Mendel E, J Neurosurg Spine, 7/1/2013
• Combined S1 and S2 Sacral Alar-Iliac Screws as a Salvage Technique for Pelvic Fixation after Pseudarthrosis and Lumbo-Sacro-Pelvic Instability  
  Mattei TA, Fassett DR, J Neurosurg Spine, 6/28/2013
• Interdisciplinary Benefits of a Theory of Cultural Evolution centered at the Group-level: The emergence of Macro-Neuroeconomics and Social Evolutionary Game Theory  
  Mattei TA, Brain Behav Cogn, 6/1/2013
• Historical Developments and Current State- of-the-art of Robotics Technology in Neurosurgery  
  Mattei TA, Rodriguez AH, Sambhara D, Neurosurg Rev, 6/1/2013
• Pediatric Arachnoid Cysts and Subdural Hygromas in the Early Infancy: Challenging the Direction of the Causality Paradigm  
  Mattei TA, Neurosurgery, 6/1/2013
• Spontaneous bowel perforation from distal catheter leading to meningitis: a rare but frequently overlooked complication of ventriculoperitoneal shunts  
  Mattei TA, Salma A, Lin JJ, Pediatr Neurol, 6/1/2013
• Do not Miss it: Paraspinal Muscles Atrophy in the Concave side of the Curve in Adult Degenerative Scoliosis  
  Mattei TA, Spine J, 5/16/2013
• Music therapy as an adjuvant therapeutic tool in medical practice: an evidence-based summary  
  Mattei TA, Rodriguez AH, OA Evidence-Based Medicine, 4/1/2013
• The Validity of Dawkins’ Selfish Gene Theory and the Role of the Unconscious in Decision-Making: Critical Remarks regarding the Proposed Selfish Goal Theory  
  Mattei TA, Brain Behav Cogn, 3/1/2013
• Osteoporosis delays Disc Degeneration by increasing Intradiscal Diffusive Transport of Nutrients through both Mechanical and Vascular Pathophysiological Pathways  
  Mattei TA, Med Hypoth, 2/26/2013
• Valve design  
  Mattei TA, Lin JJ, J Neurosurg Pediatr, 2/15/2013
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