Publications

  • Keshavarzi S, Rietz C, Simoes S, Shih S, Platt JL, Wong J, Wabl M, Cascalho M. The possibility of B-cell-dependent T-cell development. Scand J Immunol. 2003 May; 57(5): 446-52

  • Borggrefe T, Keshavarzi S, Gross B, Wabl M Jessberger R. Impaired IgE response in SWAP-70-deficient mice. Eur J Immunol. 2001 Aug; 31(8): 2467-75

  • Keshavarzi S, Aryan HE. Multilevel lateral extra-cavitary corpectomy and reconstruction for non-contiguous metastatic lesions to the spine: case report and literature review. J of Spine Onc 2009 Apr 1; 99(5):314-7 (PDF)

  • Keshavarzi S, Meltzer H, Ben-Haim S, Newman BC, Lawson JD, Levy ML, Murphy K. Initial clinical experience with frameless optically guided stereotactic radiosurgery/radiotherapy in pediatric patients. Childs Nervous System. 2009 July;25(7):837-44. (PDF)

  • Newman CB, Keshavarzi S, Aryan HE. En Bloc Sacrectomy and Reconstruction: Technique Modification for Pelvic Fixation. Surg Neurol. 2009 Aug 6. (PDF)

  • Keshavarzi S, Ben-Haim S, Shayan K, Malicki D, Volks H, Levy ML. A nineyear-old boy with temporal lobe enhancing mass. Neuropathology. 2009 Sep 7. (PDF)

  • Keshavarzi S, Hayden MG, Meltzer HS, Cohen SR, Ben-Haim S, Levy ML. Variations of endoscopic and open repair of metopic craniosynostosis. Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. 2009 Sep; 20(5):1439-44. (PDF)

  • Keshavarzi S, Park MS, Aryan HE, Newman CB, Amene CS, Gonda D, Taylor WR. Minimally invasive thoracic corpectomy and anterior fusion in a patient with metastatic disease: case report and review of the literature. Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery 2009 June; 52 (3): 141-143.

  • Keshavarzi S, Masoumi H, Jankouski P, Macdougall M, Lulic D, Hansen L, Ciacci JD. Reluctant Hydrocephalus. Neuropathology. 2010 January 25. (PDF)

  • Ho AL, Keshavarzi S, Levy ML. Exploration of genetically modified neural cells for neurological disease. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 2010; 671: 74- 92.

  • Keshavarzi S, Meltzer H, Cohen SR, Breithaupt A, Ben-Haim S, Newman CB, Levy ML. The risk of growing skull fractures in craniofacial patients. Pediatric Neurosurgery. 2010 Oct 21; 46(3): 193-198.

  • Keshavarzi S, Newman CB, Ciacci JD, Aryan HE. Expandable titanium cages for thoracolumar vertebral body replacement: initial clinical experience and review of literature. American Journal of Orthopedics. 2011 Mar;40(3):E35-9. (PDF)

  • Navarro R, Juhas S, Keshavarzi S, Juhasova J, Motlik J, Johe K, Marsala S, Scandeng M, Lazar P, Tomori A, Schulteis G, Beattie M, Ciacci JD, Marsala M. Chronic spinal compression model in minipigs: a systematic behavioral, qualitative, and quantitative neuropathological study. JNeurotrauma. 2012 Feb 10; 29(3): 499-513. (PDF) 

  • Kakinohana O, Juhasova J, Juhas S, Motlik J, Platoshyn O, Galik J, Hefferan M, Yuan SH, Vidal JG, Carson CT, van Gorp S, Goldberg D, Leerink M, Lazar P, Marsala S, Miyanohara A, Keshavarzi S, Ciacci JD, Marsala M. Survival and differentiation of human embryonic stem cell-derived neural precursors grafted spinally in spinal ischemia-injured rats or in naïve immunosuppressed minipigs: a qualitative and quantitative study. Cell Transplant. 2012 Aug 10.

  • Jankowski PP, Baird LC, Keshavarzi S, Goolsby ME, Taylor WR, Nguyen AD. A single spinal lesion arising from an intradural meningioma contiguous with an extradural lymphoma.J Neurosurg Spine. 2012 Sep;17(3):263-7. Epub 2012 Jul 20. (PDF)

  • Smith JS, Shaffrey CI, Ames CP, Demakakos J, Fu KM, Keshavarzi S, Li CM, Deviren V, Schwab FJ, Lafage V, Bess S; Assessment of symptomatic rod fracture after posterior instrumented fusion for adult spinal deformity. International Spine Study Group.Neurosurgery. 2012 Oct;71(4):862-7. (Abstract Link) (PDF)

  • Jankowski P, Baird L, Keshavarzi S, Hansen K, Taylor W. Minimally Invasive Emergent Decompression For Cauda Equina Syndrome. The Internet Journal of Spine Surgery. 2013 Volume 8 Number 1. (PDF) 

  • Ames C, Barry J, Keshavarzi S, Dede O, Weber M, Deviren V. Perioperative Outcomes and Complications of Pedicle Subtraction Osteotomy in Cases With Single Versus Two Attending Surgeons. Spine Deform. 2013 Jan;1(1):51-58. (PDF)

  • Keshavarzi S, MacDougall M, Lulic D, Kasabeh A, Levy M; Clinical experience with the surgical family of absorbable hemostats (oxidized regenerated cellulose) in neurosurgical applications: review. Wounds. 2013 Jun; 25(6): 160-7. (PDF)

  • Keshavarzi S, Bolour A, Mendez K, Behrouzi B, Kasabeh AS, Levy ML; Thermal properties of contemporary bipolar systems using infrared imaging. World Neurosurgery. 2015 Mar; 83 (3) 376-381.

Book Chapters

  • Allen L. Ho, Sassan Keshavarzi, Mike L. Levy. Exploration of genetically modified neural stem cells for neurological disease. Frontiers in Brain Repair. Austin, Texas: Landes Bioscience, 2009.

  • Sassan Keshavarzi, Dzenan Lulic, Henry E. Aryan. Transpedicular (Lateral Extracavitary) approach for anterior decompression and reconstruction. (Await Review)

  • Sassan Keshavarzi, Dzenan Lulic, Pawel Jankowski, Henry E. Aryan. Essential Techniques in Operative Neurosurgery: P. McCormick, P. Black, R. Jandial. Chapter: Pedicle subtraction osteotomy for correction of deformity. (Await review)

Oral Presentations

The International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine Annual Meeting 2011 Guthenburg, Sweden

“Outcome and complications of pedicle subtraction osteotomy in cases with single versus two attending surgeons.”

The 37th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery. 2009 Los Angeles, CA

“The Risk of Growing Skull Fractures in Craniofacial Patients.”

Conference Abstracts

CNS: Congress of Neurological Surgeons 2007

  • Keshavarzi S, Aryan HE, Acosta FL, Nottmeier EW, Ben-Haim S, Ames CP. Occipito- Cervical-Thoracic fusion with rhBMP and without iliac crest harvest: clinical multicenter experience.

IMAST: The 16th International Meeting on Advanced Spine Techniques 2009

  • Keshavarzi S, Newman CB, Ben-Haim S, Ciacci JD, Ames CP, Aryan HE. Occipito- Cervico-Thoracic Fusion without Iliac Crest or Rib Harvest: Clinical Experience and Radiographic Findings in 32 patients.

  • Keshavarzi S, Newman CB, Acosta FL, Ben-Haim S, Ciacci JD, Ames CP, Aryan HE. Percutaneous Axial Lumbar Interbody Fusion (AxiaLIF) of the L5-S1 Segment: Initial Clinical and Radiographic Experience.

AANS Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado 2011

  • Keshavarzi S, Navarro R, Ciacci JD, Marsala M. Survival and maturation of human spina neural precursor cells (hSNPs) grafted in the spine of immunosuppressed naïve minipig.

The International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine 2011 Guthenburg Sweden

  • Keshavarzi S, Deviren V, Ames C. Role of interbody fusion in rate of rod fractures after pedicle subtraction osteotomy.

IMAST: The 18th International Meeting on Advanced Spine Techniques 2011

  • Deviren V, Keshavarzi S, Mundis GM, Pekmezci M, Akbarnia B, Weber M, Ames CP.

    The Utility and Limitations of the XLIF for Adult Scholiosis.

  • Ames CP, Keshavarzi S, Berven SH, Hu Serena, Weber M, Burch S, Deviren V. The UCSF experience evaluating the effect of one vs. two attending surgeons on per- operative morbidity for pedicle subtraction osteotomy.

SRS: 46th Annual Meeting and Course 2011

  • Deviren V, Keshavarzi S, Mundis GM, Pekmezci M, Akbarnia B, Weber M, Ames CP. The Utility and Limitations of the XLIF for Adult Scholiosis. (In Submission)

  • Ames CP, Keshavarzi S, Berven SH, Hu Serena, Weber M, Burch S, Deviren V. The UCSF experience evaluating the effect of one vs. two attending surgeons on per- operative morbidity for pedicle subtraction osteotomy. (In submission)

NASS: 26th Annual Meeting 2011

  • Keshavarzi S, Mundis GM, Pekmezci M, Akbarnia B, Weber M, Ames CP, Deviren V.

    The Utility and Limitations of the XLIF for Adult Scholiosis. (In Submission)

  • Ames CP, Keshavarzi S, Berven SH, Hu Serena, Weber M, Burch S, Deviren V. The UCSF experience evaluating the effect of one vs. two attending surgeons on per- operative morbidity for pedicle subtraction osteotomy. (In submission)