Interventional Neuroradiology Fellowship
Tufts Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, MA
Neurosurgery Residency
Tufts Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, MA
General Surgery Residency
Tufts Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, MA
Neurosurgery Residency
Ruprecht-Karls University
Heidelberg, Klinikum Mannheim, Germany
Publications
Schirmer, C.M., A.M. Malek, E.S. Kwan, D.A. Hoit, and S.J. Weller, Preoperative embolization of hypervascular spinal metastases using percutaneous direct injection with n-butyl cyanoacrylate: technical case report. Neurosurgery, 2006. 59(2): p. E431-2; author reply E431-2.
Schirmer, C.M., V. Zerris, and A.M. Malek, Electrocautery-induced Ignition of Spark Showers and Self-sustained Combustion of Onyx Ethylene-vinyl Alcohol Copolymer. Neurosurgery, 2006. 59(4 Suppl 2): p. ONS413-8.
Hoit, D.A., C.M. Schirmer, and A.M. Malek, Use of the Amplatzer vascular plug as an anchoring scaffold for coil-mediated parent vessel occlusion: technical case report. Neurosurgery, 2006. 59(1 Suppl 1): p. ONSE171-2; discussion ONSE171-2.
Schirmer, C.M. and A.M. Malek, Prediction of complex flow patterns in intracranial atherosclerotic disease using computational fluid dynamics. Neurosurgery, 2007. 61(4): p. 842-51; discussion 852.
Schirmer, C.M. and A.M. Malek, Wall shear stress gradient analysis within an idealized stenosis using non-Newtonian flow. Neurosurgery, 2007. 61(4): p. 853-63; discussion 863-4.
Schirmer, C.M., D.A. Hoit, and A.M. Malek, Decompressive hemicraniectomy for the treatment of intractable intracranial hypertension after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Stroke, 2007. 38(3): p. 987-92.
Schirmer, C.M., D.A. Hoit, and A.M. Malek, The vascular plug: a new device for parent artery occlusion. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol, 2007. 28(8): p. 1428.
Schirmer, C.M. and T.R. Hedges, 3rd, Mechanisms of visual loss in papilledema. Neurosurg Focus, 2007. 23(5): p. E5.
Schirmer, C.M., D.A. Hoit, and A.M. Malek, Iatrogenic Vasospasm in Carotid Stent Angioplasty with
Distal Protection Devices. Neurosurg Focus, 2007. 24(2): p. E12.
Schirmer, C.M., A.A. Ackil, Jr., and A.M. Malek, Decompressive Craniectomy. Neurocrit Care, 2008. 8(3): 456-70
Schirmer, C.M., D.A. Hoit, and A.M. Malek, Amplatzer-onyx sandwich: a method for impermeable proximal cerebral vessel occlusion. J Vasc Interv Radiol, 2008. 19(3): p. 459-60.
Hoit, D.A., C.M. Schirmer, S.J. Weller, A. Lisbon, J.A. Edlow, and A.M. Malek, Angiographic detection of carotid and vertebral arterial injury in the high-energy blunt trauma patient. J Spinal Disord Tech, 2008. 21(4): p. 259-66.
Hoit, D.A., C.M. Schirmer, and A.M. Malek, Stent graft treatment of cerebrovascular wall defects: intermediate-term clinical and angiographic results. Neurosurgery, 2008. 62(5 Suppl 2): p. ONS380-8; discussion ONS388-9.
Schirmer, C.M., D.E. Thaler, and A.M. Malek, Stent-Mediated Wedging Of A Calcific Embolus To Recanalize An Occluded Middle Cerebral Artery. Neurosurgery, 2008: 63(1): E180-1; discussion E181.
Schirmer, C.M. and A.M. Malek, Estimation of wall shear stress dynamic fluctuations in intracranial atherosclerotic lesions using computational fluid dynamics. Neurosurgery, 2008: 63(2): 326-34; discussion 334-5.
Schirmer, C.M., M. Chan, J. Mignano, J. Duker, C.S. Melhus, L.B. Williams, J.K. Wu, and K.C. Yao, Dose de-escalation with gamma knife radiosurgery in the treatment of choroidal melanoma. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 2009. 75(1): p. 170-6.
Riesenburger, R.I., S.W. Hwang, C.M. Schirmer, V. Zerris, J.K. Wu, K. Mahn, P. Klimo, Jr., J. Mignano, C.J. Thompson, and K.C. Yao, Outcomes following single-treatment Gamma Knife surgery for trigeminal neuralgia with a minimum 3-year follow-up. J Neurosurg, 2010. 112(4): p. 766-71.
Apetauerova, D., C.M. Schirmer, J.L. Shils, J. Zani, and J.E. Arle, Successful bilateral deep brain stimulation of the globus pallidus internus for persistent status dystonicus and generalized chorea. J Neurosurg, 2010 Feb 19. [Epub ahead of print]
Schirmer, C.M., C.B. Heilman, and A. Bhardwaj, Pneumocephalus: case illustrations and review. Neurocrit Care, 2010. 13(1): p. 152-8.
Schirmer, C.M., Inferior vena cava distensibility in patients with SAH, new technology and numbers, better care? Neurocrit Care, 2010. 13(1): p. 1-2.
Baharoglu, M.I., C.M. Schirmer, D.A. Hoit, B.L. Gao, and A.M. Malek, Aneurysm inflow-angle as a discriminant for rupture in sidewall cerebral aneurysms: morphometric and computational fluid dynamic analysis. Stroke, 2010. 41(7): p. 1423-30.
Atalay, B., R.I. Riesenburger, C.M. Schirmer, R.A. Bhadelia, and S.J. Weller, Vertebral reconstruction using the telescopic plate spacer-thoracolumbar (TPS-TL) device. J Spinal Disord Tech, 2010. 23(5): p. 338-46.
Schirmer, C.M. and A.M. Malek, Critical Influence Of Framing Coil Orientation On Intra-Aneurysmal And Neck Region Hemodynamics. Neurosurgery, 2010: p. in press.
