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Articles
  • Skaf G, Sabbagh AS, Hadi U. The advantages of submandibular gland resection in anterior retropharyngeal approach to the upper cervical spine. European Spine Journal. 2007 April; 16(4): 469-477
     
  • Attieh B, Hayeck C, Skaf G, Alaraj A, Chamoun R. Baclofen Pump Pocket Infection Salvage with Muscle Flap. International Wound Journal. Letter to the Editor. 2006 Mar; 3(1):23-8.
     
  • Khalil I, Alaraj A, Otrock Z, Chamoun R, Sabbagh A, Skaf G*. Aneurysmal Bone Cyst of the Cervical Spine in a Child: a Case Report and Review of Surgical Role. Surgical Neurology. 2006 Mar; 65(3):298-303; discussion 303.
     
  • Skaf G, Bouclaous C, Chamoun R, Alaraj A, Shehadeh M. Clinical outcome of Surgical Treatment of Failed Back Surgery Syndrome. Surgical Neurology. 64(6): 483-488; December 2005
     
  • Skaf G, Bouclaous C, Al Araj A, Chamoun R, Shehadeh M, Fehlings MG. Medical Surgical management of Non-Pyogenic spontaneous Spondylodiscitis. Pan Arab Journal of Neurosurgery. 9(1): 13-20; April, 2005
     
  • Alaraj A, Chamoun R, Dahdaleh N, Sfeir P, Miski S, Skaf G*. Thoracic Splenosis mimicking thoracic Scwannoma: case report and review of literature. Surgical Neurology. 64(2): 185-188; August 2005
     
  • Skaf G, Fehlings MG, Bouclaous C. Medical and Surgical Management of Pyogenic and Nonpyogenic Spondylodiscitis: Contemporary Neurosurgery Part IV: 26(22): 1-4; November 1, 2004
     
  • Attieh B, Hayeck C, Skaff G, Alaraj A, Chamoun R. A report of successful salvage of Baclofen Pump Pocket Infection with Muscle Flap. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 114(6):1661-3; November 2004
     
  • Skaf G, Fehlings MG, Bouclaous C. Medical and Surgical Management of Pyogenic and Nonpyogenic Spondylodiscitis: Contemporary Neurosurgery Part III: 26(21): 1-5; October 31, 2004
     
  • Skaf G, Fehlings MG, Bouclaous C. Medical and Surgical Management of Pyogenic and Nonpyogenic Spondylodiscitis: Contemporary Neurosurgery Part II: 26(20): 1-5; October15, 2004
     
  • Skaf G, Fehlings MG, Bouclaous C. Medical and Surgical Management of Pyogenic and Nonpyogenic Spondylodiscitis: Contemporary Neurosurgery Part I: 26(19):1-5; September 30, 2004.
     
  • Skaf G, Bouclaous C, Fehlings MG. Treatment of Spontaneous and Post-operative Pyogenic Spondylodiscitis. Pan Arab Journal of Neurosurgery. (7)1: 1-11; April 2003
     
  • Skaf G, Fehlings MG. The Medical and Surgical Management of Spontaneous and Post-operative Diskitis. Techniques in Neurosurgery. 5:1-16; Nov 1999.
     
  • Fehlings MG, Skaf G*. A Review of the Pathophysiology of Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy with insights for Potential Novel Mechanisms Drawn from Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury. Spine. (23)24:2730-7; December 1998
     
  • Fehlings MG, Rao S, Tator CH, Skaf G*, Arnold P, Benzel E, Cuddy B, Dickman C, Green B, Hitchon P, Northrup B, Sonntag V, Wagner F, Wiberger J. A Multicenter study to define the optimal radiological method of assessing spinal canal compromise and cord compression in patients with cervical spinal cord injury. Spine. 15;24(6):605-13; March 1999
     
  • Deme S, Ang LC, Skaf G, Rowed D. Primary Intramedullary Primitive
    Neuroectodermal Tumor of the Spinal Cord. Neurosurgery. 41(6):1417- 20; December 1997
     
  • Ammirati M, Samii M, Skaf G, Sephrania A. Solitary brain metastasis 13 year after removal of renal adenocarcinoma. Journal of Neuro-Oncology. 15(1):87-90; January 1993
     
  • Najm I, Skaf G, Massicotte G, Tocco G, Vanderklish P, Lynch G, Baudry M. Effect of Kainic Acid induced seizure activity on polyamine levels and spectrin degradation during development in rat brain. Developmental Brain Research. 18;69(1):11-21 September 1992
     
  • Najm I, Skaf G, Massicotte G, Vanderklish P, Lynch G, Baudry M. Changes in Polyamine levels and Spectrin degradation following kainite-induced seizure activity, effect of Difluoromethylornitine. Exp. Neurology. 116(3):345-54; June 1992
     
  • Haddad FS, Hubballa J, Zaytoun G, Haddad GF. Intracranial complications of submucous resection of the nasal septum. Am J Otolaryngology. 6: 443-447; 1985
     
  • Haddad GF, Haddad FS. Cerebral giant serpentine aneurysm: Case report and review of the literature. Neurosurgery. 23: 92-97; 1988
     
  • Haddad FS, Haddad GF, Taha J. Traumatic intracranial aneurysms caused by missiles: Their presentation and management. Neurosurgery. 28:1-7; 1991
     
  • Haddad FS, Jamali AF, Rebeiz JJ, Fahl M, Haddad GF. Primary malignant melanoma associated with neurofibromatosis. Surg Neurol. 35: 310-316 ; 1991
     
  • Leblanc R, Haddad G, Robitaille T. Cerebral Hemorrhage from amyloid angiopathy and coronary thrombolysis. Neurosurgery. 31:586-590; 1992
     
  • Mark B. Eisenberg, Georges Haddad, Ossama Al-Mefty. Petrous apex cholesterol granulomas: evolution and management. J Neurosurg. 86:822-829; 1997
     
  • Fuad S. Haddad, Georges F. Haddad, Ghazi Zaatari. Cranial osteomas: their classification and management. Report on a giant osteoma and review of the literature. Surgical Neurology. 48:143-7; 1997
     
  • G. F. Haddad, F. S. Haddad, G. Zaatari. Dural Osteochondroma: Case report, review of the literature and proposal of a new classification British Journal of Neurosurgery. 12(4):380-384; 1998
     
  • Georges F. Haddad, Fadi Hambali, Amjad Mufarrij, Anis Nassar, Fuad S.Haddad. Concomitant Fibrous Dysplasia and Aneurysmal Bone Cyst of the Skull Base: Case report and review of the literature. Pediatric Neurosurgery. 28: 147-153; 1998
     
  • Haddad FS, Haddad GF. Origins and development of surgical treatment of epilepsy. Pan Arab J Neurosurgery. 6:10-21; 2002
     
  • Youssef Fares, Rabi Khazim, Mohamed M. El Zaatari, George F. Haddad & P. Ruiz Barnes. Spinal Hydatid Disease and its Neurological Complications. Scand J Infect Dis. 35: 394-396; 2003
     
  • Haddad FS, Haddad GF. Overview of Brain Hydatid and its surgical management: personal experience with cyst delivery. Pan Arab J Neurosurgery. 7:33-41; 2003
     
  • Guillaume DJ, Haddad GF, Hitchon PW. Post-Traumatic Intracranial Aneurysms. Advances in Clinical Neurosciences. 13:517-526; 2003
     
  • Najjar MW, Rajab Y, El-Beheiri Y: Intracranial Hydatid Cyst. Dilemma in Diagnosis and Management . Neurosciences. 12: 160-163; 2007
     
  • Najjar MW, Baeesa SS, Lingawi SS: The Association between Intracranial Meningiomas and Aneurysms; Is it a Coincidence. Case Review. Pan Arab Journal of Neurosurgery. 11: 87-91; 2007
     
  • Najjar MW, Azzam NI, Khalifa MA: Pseudotumor Cerebri. Disordered CSF Hydrodynamics with Extra-axial CSF Collections. Pediatric Neurosurgery. 41: 212-215; 2005
     
  • Najjar MW, Kusske JA, Hasso AN: Dorsal Intramedullary Dermoids. Neurosurgical Review. 28: 320-325; Oct 2005
     
  • El Shal N, Ragab Y, Halawa MR, Najjar MW: MRI Evaluation of Positional Changes of Posterior Bright Signal in Macroadenomas: Relationship with Neurohypophysis Function. The Medical Journal of Cairo University. 72: 227-232; June 2004
     
  • Najjar MW, Baeesa SS, Lingawi SS: Idiopathic Spinal Cord Herniation: A New Theory of Pathogenesis. Surgical Neurology. 62: 161-170; Aug 2004
     
  • Al-Mansari AA, Najjar MW, Lingawi SS: Cushing’s Syndrome. Case Illustration and Guidelines in Management. Saudi Medical Journal. 25: 1274-1276; Sep 2004
     
  • Hassan AE, Saleh HA, Baroudy YM, Abdul-Rahman KI, Najjar MW, Kazi MS, El-Gazar MA, Hafez MA, Abdullah MA, Abdul-Rahman YA, Youseif EA: Prevalence of Neuropathic Pain among Patients suffering from Chronic Low Back Pain in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Medical Journal. 25: 1986-1990; Dec 2004
     
  • Fortin D., Salamé J.A., Desjardins A., Benko A.: Technical Modification in the Intracarotid Chemotherapy and Osmotic Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption Procedure to Prevent the Relapse of Carboplatin-Induced Orbital Pseudotumor. Am J Neuroradiol. 25 :1; May 2004
Book/Encyclopedia Chapters
  • Hitchon PW, Lindley T, Beeler S, Walsh B, Skaf G. Degenerative disease adjacent to spinal fusion. Innovations in Spinal Reconstruction. Kari Lewandrowski
     
  • Najm I, Dileep N, Skaf G. Somatosensory Evoked Potentials.
    Neuromuscular Disorders in Clinical Practice – Butterworth-Heinemann.
    Chapter 12: 211-222, 2002
     
  • Tator CH, Skaf G. Trauma of the Nervous System : Spinal Cord Tauma.
    Chapter 56-C. Neurology in Clinical Practice. Third Edition: 1089-1113,
    2000
     
  • Haddad GF, Al-Mefty O.
    Meningealsarcoma
    In: Kaye AH, Laws ER Jr. (eds): Encyclopedia of Brain Tumors
    Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone 1995
     
  • Haddad GF, Al-Mefty O:
    Meningiomas: An overview
    In: Wilkins RH, Rengachary SS (eds): Neurosurgery 2nd ed.
    New York: McGraw Hill 1996
     
  • Haddad GF, Al-Mefty O:
    Exposure of petroclival tumors
    In: Wilkins RH, Rengachary SS (eds): Neurosurgery 2nd ed.
    New York: McGraw Hill 1996
     
  • Haddad GF, Al-Mefty O:
    Infratentorial and petroclival meningiomas
    In: Wilkins RH, Rengachary SS (eds): Neurosurgery 2nd ed.
    New York: McGraw Hill 1996
     
  • Haddad GF, Al-Mefty O:
    The road less traveled: transtemporal access to the CPA
    In: Williams & Wilkins (eds): Clinical Neurosurgery 1995
     
  • Haddad GF, Al-Mefty Ossama
    Petrosal “presigmoid” approach to the clivus
    In: Operative Skull Base Surgery
    Churchill Livingstone 1997
     
  • Fuad S. Haddad, Georges F. Haddad
    Surgical management of craniocerebral missile wounds
    In Missile Wounds of the Head and Neck
    Editor Bizhan Aarabi
    Publisher: The American Association of Neurological Surgeons
     
  • Georges Haddad, Chimene Hatoum
    Meningioma
    http://www.emedicine.com 
    Chapter written on-line (2003), available for all internauts
     
  • Haddad GF, Al-Mefty O, Abdulrauf SI:
    Meningiomas –
    Chapter 62. In Winn RH (ed): Youman's Neurological Surgery, 5th Edition. Philadelphia: Saunders 2004; 1099-1131
     
  • Georges Haddad, Chimene Hatoum, Roukoz B Chamoun
    Meningioma
    http://www.emedicine.com 
    Chapter written on-line (Updated 2005), available for all internauts
     
  • Daniel J. Guillaume, Fuad S. Haddad, Georges F. Haddad and Patrick W. Hitchon
    Diagnosis and Management of Traumatic Intracranial Aneurysms
    Chapter 86. In “Schmidek & Sweet Operative Neurosurgical Techniques: Indications, methods, and results” Edited by Henry H. Schmidek, David W. Roberts. 5th Edition Elsevier 2006, 1224-1232
American University of Beirut Medical Center Department of Surgery Division of Neurosurgery