Dr. Nicholas Patronas is a neuroradiologist and a member of the Diagnostic Radiology Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes
of Health. Dr. Patronas received his medical degree from Salonica University
Medical School Salonica, Greece. He completed an internship at Edgewater
Hospital in Chicago, and a residency at the University of Illinois Hospital,
also in Chicago. He followed that with a fellowship at Northwestern Memorial
Hospital.
Dr. Patronas's current research interests include the following:
Studying the physiology of syrinx formations in patients
with Chiari Type 1 malformation
Evaluating vascular lesions which occur in patients
with AIDS
Evaluating the type of spinal canal lesions which occur
in patients with neurofibromatosis type II and assessing their biological
behavior
Examining the therapeutic efficacy of patients with
brain tumors using experimental protocols
Dr. Patronas has 144 publications to date. His most recent
publications appear below.
Selected Bibliography
Courcoutsakis NA, Langford CA, Sneller MC, Cupps TR, Gorman
K, Patronas NJ. Orbital Involovement in Wegener's Granulomatosis: MR Findings
in 12 Patients. J Comput Assist Tomogr 1997; 21(3):452-458.
Manski TJ, Heffner DK, Glenn GM, Patronas NJ, Pikus AT,
Katz D, Lebovics R, Sledjeski K, Choyke PL, Zbar B, Linehan WM, Oldfield
EH. Endolymphatic Sac Tumors: A source of Morbid Hearing Loss in von Hippel-Lindau
Disease. JAMA 1997; 277:1461-1466.
Figg WD, Kroog G, Duray P, McClellan WM, Patronas N, Sartor
O, Reed E. Flutamide Withdrawal plus Hydrocortisone Resulted in Clinical
Complete Response in a Patient with Prostate Carcinoma. Cancer 1997;79(10):
1964-1968.
Seongman K, Allen J, Graham JM Jr., Grebe T, Clerixuzio
C, Patronas N, Ondrey F, Green E, Schaffer A, Abbott M, Biesecker LG. Linkage
mapping and phenotypic analysis of autosomal dominant Pallister-Hall syndrome.
Med Genet 1997;34:441-446.
Patronas NJ, Koby MB: Diagnosis of Central Nervous System
Metastases, In: Lotze MT, Rubin JT, eds. Regional Therapy of Advanced Cancer.
Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott-Raven Publishers, 1997: 151-174.
Tedeschi G, Litvan I, Bonavita S, Bertolino A, Lundbom
N, Patronas NJ,
Hallett M. Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging
in progressive supranuclear palsy, Parkinson's disease and corticovasal
degeneration. Brain 1997;120:1541-1552.
Higgins JJ, Morton DH, Patronas N, Nee LE. An autosomal
recessive disorder with posterior column ataxia and retinitis pigmentosa.
Neurology 1997;49:1717-1720.
Dawson N, Figg WD, Brawley O, Bergan R, Cooper MR, Senderowicz
A, Headlee D, Steinberg SM, Sutherland M, Patronas N, Kohler D, Sausville
E, Linehan M, Reed E, Sartor O. A Phase II Study of Suramin Plus Aminoglutethimide
in Two Cohorts of Patients with Androgen-Independent Prostate Cancer: Simultaneous
Antiandrogen Withdrawal and Prior Antiandrogen Withdrawal. Clin Cancer Research
1998;4:37-44.
DiGiovanna JJ, Patronas N, Katz D, Abangan D, Kraemer KH.
Xeroderma pigmentosum: spinal cord astrocytoma with 9-year survival after
radiationadn isotretinoin therapy. J Cutan Med Surg 1998;2:153-158.
Tedeschi G, Bonavita S, Barton NW, Bertolino A, Frank JA,
Patronas NJ, Alger JR, Schiffman R. Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic
imaging in the clinical evaluation of patients with Niemann-Pick type C
disease. J of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. 1998;65:72-79.
Frei, KP, Patronas NJ, Crutchfield KE, Altarescu G, Shiffmann
R. Mucolipidosis type IV Characteristic MRI findings. Neurology 1998;51:565-569.
Crutchfield KE, Patronas NJ, Dambrosia JM, Frei KP, Banerjee
TK, Barton NW, Schiffmann R. Quantative analysis of cerebral vasculopathy
in patients with Fabry disease. Neurology 1998;50:1746-1749.
Summers RM, Brune AM, Choyke PL, Chow CK, Patronas NJ,
Miller FW, White PH, Malley JD, Rider LG. Juvenile idiopathic inflammatory
myopathy: Exercise induced changes in muscle at short inversion time inversion-recovery
MR imaging. Radiology 1998;209:191-196.
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