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Tibor Boco, MD, FAANS

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Tibor Boco, MD, FAANS

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery

RUSH Medical College

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery

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Westchester, IL 60154
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MD, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Neurosurgery residency, Rush University Medical Center
Dr. Boco is a diplomate of the American Board of Neurological Surgeons, He is assistant professor of neurological surgery at RUSH University Medical Center and director of neurosurgery services at Elmhurst Memorial Hospital. After attending medical school at the University of Chicago, he completed his neurosurgery residency at Rush University Medical Center. He then spent several years at San Juan Regional Medical Center, in Farmington, New Mexico, where he eventually assumed the role of director of spine services with an emphasis on minimally invasive spine surgery. After joining Neurological Surgery and Spine Surgery, S.C., Dr. Boco has developed an active practice focusing on spine care, including, degenerative disease of the neck and lower back as well as cancer of the spine or spinal cord. He has extensive experience utilizing minimally invasive techniques, when appropriate, to treat the most complex spine conditions. Dr. Boco is also interested in tumors of the brain and he uses image-guided operative techniques and stereotactic surgery in form of the Cyber Knife or the Gamma Knife. He has authored several peer-reviewed medical articles in neurosurgery and orthopedic surgery and he is author of several book chapters focusing on neurosurgical care. He is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, and the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies. Dr. Boco has privileges at Rush University Medical Center, Elmhurst Memorial Hospital, MacNeal Hospital, LaGrange and Hinsdale Memorial Hospitals, Bolingbrook Hospital, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, and Aiden Center for Day Surgery. Dr. Boco sees many foreign language-speaking patients. He is fluent in German, Spanish, Czech and French.
Magnetic resonance imaging characteristics of typical and atypical/anaplastic meningiomas

Tan LA, Boco T, Johnson AK, Rivas FF, Ahmed S, Byrd SE, Byrne RW

Br J Neurosurg. 2014 Sept 15:1-5

The history of neurological surgery at rush university medical center

Boco T, Jobe K, O’Leary S, Byrne RW, Whisler W

Neurosurgery. 2010 Oct;67(4):1036-43

Postoperative acute disseminated encephalomyelitis after exposure to microfibrillar collagen hemostat

Sani S, Boco T, Lewis SL, Cochran E, Patel AJ, Byrne RW

Journal of Neurosurgery. 2008; Jul;1 09(1):149-152

Minimally invasive transpedicular vertebrectomy for metastatic disease to the thoracic spine

Deutsch H, Boco T, Lobel J

Journal of Spinal Disorders and Techniques. 2008; Apr, 21(2):101-105

Papillary tumor of the pineal region

Boco T, Aalaei S, Musacchio MJ, Byrne R, Cochran E

Neuropathology. 2008;28,87-92

Delayed symptomatic presentation of epidural hematoma after epidural catheter anesthesia

Boco T, Deutsch H

Spine. 2007, 32(22):E649-51

Disorders of the cervical spine

Boco T, Ratliff J

Orthopedics Hyperguide, 2006

Cervical stenosis presenting with acute brown-sequard syndrome

Sani S, Boco T, Deutsch H

Spine. 2005, 30:E481-83

Absence of acute cerebral vasoconstriction after cocaine-associated subarachnoid hemorrhage

Boco T, Macdonald RL

Neurocritical Care. 2004, 1(4):449-54

Percutaneous vertebroplasty

Bendok BR, Halpin RJ, Rubin MN, Boco T, Przybylo JH, Liu JC

Contemporary Neurosurgery. 2004, 26(8)
- Management of complications in minimally invasive spine surgery, 2010-11
- Novel techniques and devices in minimally invasive spine surgery, 2010-11
- Tumoral temporal lobe epilepsy, 2007-11
- Stereological sampling of the human hippocampus in temporal lobe epilepsy, 2007-08
- Efficacy and complications of frameless deep brain stimulators, 2006-07
- Efficacy and postoperative complications of Gliadel wafers in treatment of brain tumors, 2004
- Brain plasticity and song behavior in European starlings, 2000-01
- Perception and cognition, attention and attentional selectivity, 1998-99

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