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Information  about  some  of  the  work  of
Paul C. Francel, M.D., Ph.D.

Helpful book above, Living With Brain Injury, by a patient of Dr. Paul C. Francel, Philip L. Fairclough.   It is dedicated to Dr. Francel and mentions him several times.  Available on-line from Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble.com.

Paul C. Francel, M.D., Ph.D., Neurosurgeon - Biography.

My Personal Thoughts about Dr. Paul Francel.

Learn about Elizabeth Woodard from Chickasha who received the ProDisc-L, performed by Dr. Francel (includes video).

To learn more detail on the  ProDisc, click on the picture

Linda Ford's Story "The Guru" - She was cured of a brain tumor (meningioma) removed by Dr. Francel.

Rachael Merritt's Story, Victory over Dystonia, with Deep Brain Stimulation.  This is a great love story too.  You will be amazed at the surprise ending.

Ada Trio Featured on National TV Program - Ada Evening News, August 17, 2000.

A second chance at life - Dr. Francel saves Ardmore, OK boy from traumatic brain injury.

Dr. Francel and Dr. Kiran Prabhu at in Oklahoma City successfully treated patient Christina Palomino with the gamma knife for trigeminal neuralgia which she had suffered with for 29 years.  The pain is considered the worst in medicine causing many patients choose suicide to escape it. 

Vinko V. Dolenc, M.D., Ph.D., world famous neurosurgeon who trained Dr. Francel in removing cavernous sinus brain tumors.  Dr. Dolenc is the "father of cavernous sinus surgery."

John  A.  Jane,  M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Neurosurgery, Chair, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Virginia, world renowned physician - one of the doctors at the University that trained Dr. Francel.  Dr. Francel was on Dr. Jane's team who treated Christopher Reeve "Superman" after his tragic fall.  Christopher Reeve stated on Larry King Live, several years before his untimely death, that Dr. Jane was one of the best neurosurgeons in the world and Dr. Jane's surgery enabled him to be where he was at that time.

Pacemaker-Type Device Helps Parkinson's Patients - More information on the device mentioned above (Activa® Tremor Control Therapy).

'Pacemaker' Parkinson's Treatment Available by Dr. Paul Francel from Channel 5 KOCO in Oklahoma City.

Deep Brain Stimulation for Essential Tremors - McGraw Hill Online Learning Center discussion with Dr. Paul Francel.

Technical Articles Written for Other Physicians

Three-Dimensional Volumetric Imaging for Stereotactic Lesional and Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery by Paul C. Francel, M.D., Ph.D. and David Coffman, M.D.

Skull base approaches and gamma knife radiosurgery for multimodality of skull based tumors from the Journal of Neurosurgery, Volume 97, Dec. 2002 by Paul Francel, M.D., Ph.D., Sumon Bhattacharjee, M.D., and Paul Tompkins, M.S.

Abstract of Repair of Cranial Defects with a combination of Absorbable Plates and Hydroxyapatite Cement, by Paul C Francel, MD/PhD, Jayesh Panchal, MD (Oklahoma City, OK), Paul Tompkins, MS (Oklahoma City, OK) from the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, University of Neurosurgery, 2001 meeting in San Diego, CA.
 

Optimized magnetic resonance image­guided stereotaxis: a technique with validation based on the anterior commissure­posterior commissure line by  Charles G. diPierro, M.D., Paul C. Francel, M.D., Ph.D., Theodore R. Jackson, Ph.D., Toshifumi Kamiryo, M.D., and Edward R. Laws, Jr., M.D. Department of Neurosurgery, Virginia Neurological Institute, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; and Department of Neurosurgery, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.  February 11, 1997.  From the Neurosurgical Library.

The Relative Localizing Value of Interictal and Immediate Postictal SPECT in Seizures of Temporal Lobe Origin by Dr. Francel and other doctors.  Journal of Nuclear Medicine Vol. 45 No. 12 2021-2025.