Professor Dr.med. Alaa el Din Elsharkawy

Professor Elsharkawy is currently working as Consultant of spine surgery in Bonifatius-Hospital, Lingen, Germany and as Co-Director at spine research center at Bonifatius-Hospital, Lingen, Germany.

Dr. Elsharkawy’s clinical interests are epilepsy surgery and spine endoscopy. He is also principal investigator of several ongoing clinical studies in spine surgery in Lingen, Germany. He completed his doctoral education through the MD program of the high Medical school in Hannover, Germany. He received the Lilly Award for quality of life research.

Absolute spike frequency and etiology predict the surgical outcome in epilepsy due to amygdala lesions
Outcome of frontal lobe epilepsy surgery in adults
Long-term outcome of lesional posterior cortical epilepsy surgery in adults
Long-term outcome of extratemporal epilepsy surgery among 154 adult patients
Long-term outcome and determinants of quality of life after temporal lobe epilepsy surgery in adults
Long-term outcome after temporal lobe epilepsy surgery in 434 consecutive adult patients
Long term outcome in patients not initially seizure free after resective epilepsy surgery
Intraparenchymal meningioma mimicking cavernous malformation: a case report and review of the literature
Hemispherectomy
Posterior epidural migration of extruded lumbar disc fragment mimicking epidural mass: A case report
Determinants of quality of life in patients with refractory focal epilepsy who were not eligible for surgery or who rejected surgery
Posterior epidural migration of extruded lumbar disc fragment mimicking epidural mass: A case report
Cortical Anaplastic Ependymoma with Significant Desmoplasia: A Case Report and Literature Review
Bithalamic Infarction (Artery of Percheron Occlusion) after Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion
An intradural lumbar disc fragment with free migration: A case of a missed intradural disc herniation
Percutaneous posterior combined C2 translaminar and pedicle screws using Intraoperative O-arm Navigation in an atypical traumatic spondylolisthesis: Technical notes
Posterior epidural migration of herniated lumbar disc fragment: a literature review
Predictors of quality of life after resective extratemporal epilepsy surgery in adults in long-term follow-up
Posterior epidural migration of herniated lumbar disc fragment: a literature review
Primary osteosarcoma of the breast after complete resection of a metaplastic ossification: a case report
Primary spinal glioblastoma multiforme presenting with leptomeningeal gliomatosis and subarachnoid hemorrhage: A case report
Predictors and Long-term Outcome of Sexual Function After Surgical Treatment for Single-level Lumbar Disk Herniation Among Patients in a German Spine Center
Staged hemispherotomy in an infant with catastrophic epilepsy without hemiparesis
Vagus nerve stimulation: Outcome and predictors of seizure freedom in long-term follow-up

Professor Dr.med. Alaa el Din Elsharkawy

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