Michael T. Lawton

Department

Neurological Surgery (Phoenix)

Position

Professor

Publications

• Neurosurgical review
  Gurses Muhammet Enes, etal Subtonsillar and vallecular triangles as gateways to dorsal brainstem and fourth ventricle lesions: descriptive and quantitative analysis of microsurgical anatomy
  48:1, p. 761 2025
• Journal of neurosurgery
  Chen Jiuxu, etal Artificial intelligence-based deep learning model for evaluating procedural consistency in microvascular anastomosis, p. 1 2025
• Neurosurgical review
  Hanalioglu Sahin, etal Correction to: Supracerebellar-supratrochlear and supracerebellar-infratrochlear triangles as gateways to the posterolateral midbrain and ambient cistern: descriptive and quantitative analysis of microsurgical anatomy
  48:1, p. 640 2025
• Journal of clinical neuroscience
  Tayebi Meybodi Ali, etal Applied microanatomy of the petrous internal carotid artery, greater superficial petrosal nerve, and tensor tympani muscle to improve safety during middle fossa surgery: laboratory cadaveric investigation
  141, p. 111561 2025
• Neurosurgical review
  Hanalioglu Sahin, etal Supracerebellar-supratrochlear and supracerebellar-infratrochlear triangles as gateways to the posterolateral midbrain and ambient cistern: descriptive and quantitative analysis of microsurgical anatomy
  48:1, p. 568 2025
• Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.)
  Tayebi Meybodi Ali, etal Assessment of the Subarcuate Canaliculus as a Landmark in Middle Fossa Surgery 2025
• Frontiers in oncology
  Xu Yuan, etal A single-institution experience with intraoperative in vivo confocal laser endomicroscopy for brain tumors in 50 patients
  15 2025
• Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.)
  Tayebi Meybodi Ali, etal The Cochlear Dimple: A Novel Landmark for Cochlear Protection During Middle Fossa Surgery-A Cadaveric Laboratory Investigation 2025
• Frontiers in neurology
  Yangi Kivanc, etal Deep learning in neurosurgery: a systematic literature review with a structured analysis of applications across subspecialties
  16 2025
• Meybodi Ali Tayebi, etal The Cochlear Dimple: A Novel Landmark for Cochlear Protection during Middle Fossa Surgery—A Cadaveric Laboratory Investigation 2025
• Meybodi Ali Tayebi, etal Assessment of the Subarcuate Canaliculus as a Landmark in Middle Fossa Surgery 2025
• Meybodi Ali Tayebi, etal Microanatomy of the Temporal Division of the Facial Nerve in the Periorbital Region Applied to Minimally Invasive Keyhole Approaches 2025
• Meybodi Ali Tayebi, etal Applied Microanatomy of the Petrous Internal Carotid Artery, Greater Superficial Petrosal Nerve, and Tensor Tympani Muscle to Improve Safety during Middle Fossa Surgery—Laboratory Cadaveric Investigation 2025
• Meybodi Ali Tayebi, etal The C2–P2 Bypass: Technical Assessment of Petrous Carotid Artery to Posterior Cerebral Artery Interpositional Bypass through the Combined Transcochlear-Subtemporal Approach as a Part of Microsurgical Treatment for Dolichoectatic Vertebrobasilar Artery ANE 2025
• Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.)
  Tayebi Meybodi Ali, etal C2-P2 Bypass: Technical Assessment of Petrous Carotid Artery to Posterior Cerebral Artery Interpositional Bypass Through the Combined Transcochlear-Subtemporal Approach as a Part of Microsurgical Treatment for Dolichoectatic Vertebrobasilar Artery Aneurys 2025
• Frontiers in surgery
  Yangi Kivanc, etal Artificial intelligence integration in surgery through hand and instrument tracking: a systematic literature review
  12 2025
• Frontiers in human neuroscience
  Hanalioglu Sahin, etal Ultrahigh-resolution 7-Tesla anatomic magnetic resonance imaging and diffusion tensor imaging of ex vivo formalin-fixed human brainstem-cerebellum complex
  18 2024
• World neurosurgery
  On Thomas J., etal Deep learning detection of hand motion during microvascular anastomosis simulations performed by expert cerebrovascular neurosurgeons 2024
• Neurosurgical review
  Mignucci-Jiménez Giancarlo, etal Toward an optimal cadaveric brain model for neurosurgical education: assessment of preservation, parenchyma, vascular injection, and imaging
  47:1, p. 190 2024
• Cells (Basel, Switzerland)
  Alzahrani Faisal A, etal Exosomes in Vascular/Neurological Disorders and the Road Ahead
  13:8 2024
• Journal of neurosurgery
  Hanalioglu Sahin, etal Infragalenic triangle as a gateway to dorsal midbrain and posteromedial thalamic lesions: descriptive and quantitative analysis of microsurgical anatomy
  140:3, p. 866 2024
• Journal of neurosurgery
  Gurses Muhammet Enes, etal Interactive microsurgical anatomy education using photogrammetry 3D models and an augmented reality cube, p. 1 2024
• World neurosurgery
  Abramov Irakliy, etal Step-by-step dissection of the extreme lateral transodontoid approach to the anterior craniovertebral junction: surgical anatomy and technical nuances 2023
• Journal of neurosurgery
  Hanalioglu Sahin, etal Infragalenic triangle as a gateway to dorsal midbrain and posteromedial thalamic lesions: descriptive and quantitative analysis of microsurgical anatomy, p. 1 - 14 2023
• Journal of Neurological Surgery Part B: Skull Base
  Houlihan Lena Mary, etal Quantitative Analysis of the Supraorbital, Transorbital Microscopic, and Transorbital Neuroendoscopic Approaches to the Anterior Skull Base and Paramedian Vasculature 2023
• Journal of neurosurgery
  Houlihan Lena Mary, etal The biportal transorbital approach: quantitative comparison of the anterior subfrontal craniotomy, bilateral transorbital endoscopic, and microscopic approaches, p. 1 - 10 2023
• Neurosurgical focus
  Gonzalez-Romo Nicolas I., etal Quantification of motion during microvascular anastomosis simulation using machine learning hand detection
  54:6, p. E2 - E2 2023
• Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.)
  Gurses Muhammet Enes, etal Three-Dimensional Modeling and Extended Reality Simulations of the Cross-Sectional Anatomy of the Cerebrum, Cerebellum, and Brainstem 2023
• Surgical neurology international
  Gonzalez-Romo Nicolas I., etal Virtual neurosurgery anatomy laboratory: A collaborative and remote education experience in the metaverse
  14, p. 90 - 90 2023
• Journal of neurosurgery
  Labib Mohamed A., etal Combined subtarsal contralateral transmaxillary retroeustachian and endoscopic endonasal approaches to the infrapetrous region, p. 1 - 10 2023
• Journal of neurosurgery
  Belykh Evgenii, etal Seven bypasses simulation set: description and validity assessment of novel models for microneurosurgical training
  138:3, p. 732 - 739 2023
• Journal of neurosurgery
  Abramov Irakliy, etal Intraoperative confocal laser endomicroscopy: prospective in vivo feasibility study of a clinical-grade system for brain tumors
  138:3, p. 587 - 597 2023
• Journal of neurosurgical sciences
  Houlihan Lena Mary, etal Improving the metric of surgical freedom in the laboratory based on a novel concept of volume 2023
• Surgical neurology international
  Meybodi Ali Tayebi, etal Nervus intermedius: Microsurgical and anatomic relationships to the cerebellopontine angle neurovascular complex
  14, p. 37 - 37 2023
• Labib Mohamed, etal The Third Nostril: Combining the Contralateral, Subtarsal, Transmaxillary Retro-Eustachian and Endoscopic Endonasal Approaches to the Jugular Foramen 2023
• Abramov Irakliy, etal A Novel Method for Estimation of the Intra-axial Exposure Using Quantitative Neuroanatomy and 3D Modeling 2023
• Frontiers in surgery
  Tayebi Meybodi Ali, etal Comprehensive microsurgical anatomy of the middle cranial fossa: Part II—neurovascular anatomy
  10, p. 1132784 - 1132784 2023
• Neurosurgical review
  Houlihan Lena Mary, etal Toward 'bigger' data for neurosurgical anatomical research: a single centralized quantitative neurosurgical anatomy platform
  46:1, p. 22 - 22 2022
• Journal of Neurological Surgery Part B: Skull Base
  Houlihan Lena Mary, etal Transorbital Microsurgery: An Anatomical Description of a Minimally Invasive Corridor to the Anterior Cranial Fossa and Paramedian Structures 2022
• Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.)
  Park Marian T, etal Introduction of In Vivo Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy and Real-Time Telepathology for Remote Intraoperative Neurosurgery-Pathology Consultation
  23:3, p. 261 - 267 2022
• Neurosurgical focus
  Abramov Irakliy, etal Real-time intraoperative surgical telepathology using confocal laser endomicroscopy
  52:6, p. E9 - E9 2022
• Frontiers in surgery
  Hanalioglu Sahin, etal Development and Validation of a Novel Methodological Pipeline to Integrate Neuroimaging and Photogrammetry for Immersive 3D Cadaveric Neurosurgical Simulation
  9, p. 878378 - 878378 2022
• Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.)
  Houlihan Lena Mary, etal Volumetric 3-Dimensional Analysis of the Supraorbital vs Pterional Approach to Paramedian Vascular Structures: Comprehensive Assessment of Surgical Maneuverability
  22:2, p. 66 - 74 2022
• Rahmani Redi, etal The Mandibular Fossa Approach 2022
• Houlihan Lena Mary, etal Exploratory Analysis of the Biportal Transorbital Approach: Quantitative Comparison of Anterior Subfrontal Craniotomy versus Bilateral Transorbital Endoscopic and Microscopic Approaches to the Anterior Cranial Fossa and Paramedian Vasculature 2022
• Houlihan Lena Mary, etal Optimal Metric of Surgical Freedom: Volume of Surgical Freedom Compared with Other Metrics of Instrument Maneuverability 2022
• Cole Tyler S., etal Comparative Anatomical Assessment of Full versus Limited Transcavernous Exposure of the Carotid-Oculomotor Window 2022
• Abramov Irakliy, etal Volumetric Three-Dimensional Analysis of the Retrosigmoid, Extended Retrosigmoid, and Presigmoid-Retrolabyrinthine Transpetrosal Fissure Approaches to the Middle Cerebellar Peduncle 2022
• Benner Dimitri, etal The Bond between Neuroanatomy Laboratories and Neurosurgery: Historical Assessment and Impact on Surgical Training 2022
• Houlihan Lena Mary, etal Optimal Anterolateral Access Corridors to the Anterior Skull Base and Paramedian Vasculature: Quantitative Analysis of Unilateral Supraorbital, Transorbital Microscopic, and Transorbital Neuroendoscopic Approaches 2022
• Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.)
  Cole Tyler S, etal Comparative Anatomical Assessment of Full vs Limited Transcavernous Exposure of the Carotid-Oculomotor Window
  22:1, p. e30 - E34 2022
• Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.)
  Belykh Evgenii, etal Novel System of Simulation Models for Aneurysm Clipping Training: Description of Models and Assessment of Face, Content, and Construct Validity
  21:6, p. 558 - 569 2021
• World neurosurgery
  Houlihan Lena Mary, etal Nancy Davis Reagan, First Lady with a Neurosurgical Legacy
  155, p. 64 - 73 2021
• World neurosurgery
  Farhadi Dara S, etal The Neuroanatomic Studies of Albert L. Rhoton Jr. in Historical Context: An Analysis of Origin, Evolution, and Application
  151, p. 258 - 276 2021
• Neuro-oncology advances
  Belykh Evgenii, etal BIMG-03. MOLECULAR IMAGING OF GLUCOSE METABOLISM FOR INTRAOPERATIVE FLUORESCENCE GUIDANCE DURING GLIOMA SURGERY
  3:Supplement_1, p. i1 - i1 2021
• Surgical neurology international
  Abramov Irakliy, etal Supracerebellar infratentorial inverted subchoroidal approach to lateral ventricle lesions: Anatomical study and illustrative case
  12:39, p. 39 - 39 2021
• Houlihan Lena Mary, etal Transorbital Neuroendoscopic Surgery as a Mainstream Neurosurgical Corridor: A Systematic Review 2021
• Houlihan Lena Mary, etal Transorbital Microscopic Surgery: The Most Minimally Invasive Corridor to Many Intracranial Structures 2021
• Houlihan Lena Mary, etal Volumetric Three-Dimensional Analysis of the Supraorbital versus Pterional Approach to Intracranial Structures: Assessment of the Volume of Surgical Freedom 2021
• Abramov Irakliy, etal Steps of the Expanded Extreme Lateral Approach: A Systematic and Consequential Anatomical Description 2021
• Journal of neurosurgery
  Labib Mohamed A., etal The side door and front door to the upper retroclival region: a comparative analysis of the open pretemporal and the endoscopic endonasal transcavernous approaches
  133:6, p. 1892 - 1904 2020
• World neurosurgery
  Meybodi Ali Tayebi, etal Zygomatic-Meatal Perpendicular Projection Lines: Bony Landmarks for Early Identification of the Temporal Horn of the Lateral Ventricle
  138, p. E591 - E596 2020
• Benner Dimitri, etal A Skull Base Surgeon's GPS: 27 Anatomical Triangles of the Anterior, Posterior and Middle Fossae 2020
• World neurosurgery
  Bot Gyang Markus, etal Comparative Analysis of Continuous Suturing, Interrupted Suturing, and Cyanoacrylate-Based Lid Techniques for End-to-End Microvascular Anastomosis: Laboratory Investigation
  134, p. 465 - 471 2020
• Labib Mohamed, etal Tailoring the Surgical Corridor to the Basilar Apex in the Pretemporal Transcavernous Approach: Morphometric Analysis of Different Neurovascular Mobilization Maneuvers 2020
• Zhao Xiaochun Xiaochun, etal The Extended Retrosigmoid Approach for High-Riding Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery Aneurysms—Part I: A Quantitative Anatomical Analysis of the Glossopharyngo–Cochlear Triangle 2020
• World Neurosurgery
  Catapano Joshua S., etal Management of extracranial blunt cerebrovascular injuries: experience with an aspirin-based approach
  133, p. e385 - e390 2020
• Operative Neurosurgery
  Mascitelli Justin, etal 'reverse Picket Fence' Technique for Clipping of a Large, Anterior Communicating Artery Aneurysm: 2-Dimensional Operative Video
  18:3 2020
• Surgical neurology international
  Zhao Xiaochun, etal The anterior incisural width as a preoperative indicator for intradural space evaluation: An anatomical investigation
  11, p. 207 - 207 2020
• Journal of neurosurgery
  Meybodi Ali Tayebi, etal Anatomical assessment of the endoscopic endonasal approach for the treatment of paraclinoid aneurysms
  131:6, p. 1734 - 1742 2019
• Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.)
  Mooney Michael A., etal Posterior Petrosal Transotic Approach for Cerebellopontine Angle Hemangioblastoma: Technical Case Report
  17:6, p. E269 - E273 2019
• Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.)
  Meybodi Ali Tayebi, etal Transcavernous Approach to the Upper Basilar and Retroclival Area-Cadaveric Surgical Simulation Video: 2-Dimensional Operative Video
  17:6, p. E251 - E251 2019
• Frontiers in surgery
  Zhao Xiaochun, etal Application of Fluorescein Fluorescence in Vascular Neurosurgery
  6, p. 52 - 52 2019
• Neurosurgery
  Zhao Xiaochun, etal Accessing the Medial Surface of the Paraclinoid Internal Carotid Artery via the Contralateral Interoptic Trajectory: An Anatomical Study
  66:Supplement 1, p. 310 - 407 2019
• Valli Daniel, etal Development of a Simulation Model for Fluorescence-Guided Brain Tumor Surgery 2019
• Frontiers in oncology
  Valli Daniel, etal Development of a Simulation Mode for Fluorescence-Guided Brain Tumor Surgery
  9 2019
• Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.)
  Tayebi Meybodi Ali, etal Exposure of the External Carotid Artery Through the Posterior Neck Triangle, Cadaveric Surgical Simulation: 2-Dimensional Operative Video
  17:2, p. E65 - E65 2019
• Frontiers in oncology
  Gandhi Sirin, etal Survival Outcomes Among Patients With High-Grade Glioma Treated With 5-Aminolevulinic Acid–Guided Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  9, p. 620 - 620 2019
• Frontiers in oncology
  Belykh Evgenii, etal Progress in Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy for Neurosurgery and Technical Nuances for Brain Tumor Imaging With Fluorescein
  9, p. 554 - 554 2019
• Surgical and radiologic anatomy (English ed.)
  Tayebi Meybodi Ali, etal Anatomical assessment of the digastric branch of the facial nerve as a landmark to localize the extratemporal facial nerve trunk
  41:6, p. 657 - 662 2019
• Journal of neurosurgery
  Meybodi Ali Tayebi, etal The oculomotor-tentorial triangle. Part 1: microsurgical anatomy and techniques to enhance exposure
  130:5, p. 1426 - 1434 2019
• World neurosurgery
  Meybodi Ali Tayebi, etal Double Origin of the Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery: Anatomic Case Report
  124, p. 110 - 115 2019
• Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.)
  Meybodi Ali Tayebi, etal Side-to-Side Anastomosis Training Model Using Rat Common Carotid Arteries
  16:3, p. 345 - 350 2019
• Journal of clinical neuroscience
  Meybodi Ali Tayebi, etal Sylvian fissure splitting revisited: Applied arachnoidal anatomy and proposition of a live practice model
  61, p. 235 - 242 2019
• Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.)
  Meybodi Ali Tayebi, etal Anatomical Assessment of the Temporopolar Artery for Revascularization of Deep Recipients
  16:3, p. 335 - 344 2019
• Labib Mohamed, etal A Quantitative Comparison between the Transcranial Transcavernous Approach and the Endoscopic Endonasal Transsphenoidal Pituitary Hemitransposition to Upper Clivus Region 2019
• Meybodi Ali Tayebi, etal The Inferior Nuchal Line: A Simple Landmark to Avoid Vertebral Artery Injury during the Retrosigmoid Approach 2019
• Operative Neurosurgery
  Gandhi Sirin, etal Two-Stage Revascularization and Clip Reconstruction of a Giant Ophthalmic Artery Aneurysm: 3-Dimensional Operative Video
  17:3 2019
• Neurosurgical Focus
  Cole Tyler S., etal Bifrontal approach for clip ligation of bilateral ethmoidal dural arteriovenous fistulas: Operative video
  46 2019
• Operative Neurosurgery
  Gandhi Sirin, etal Far Lateral Craniotomy for Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery-Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery Bypass and Trapping of Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery Aneurysm: 3-Dimensional Operative Video
  16:4 2019
• Scientific Reports
  Belykh Evgenii, etal Optical Characterization of Neurosurgical Operating Microscopes: Quantitative Fluorescence and Assessment of PpIX Photobleaching
  8:1, p. Article Number: 12543 - Article Number: 12543 2018
• World neurosurgery
  Meybodi Ali Tayebi, etal The End-to-Side Anatomosis: A Comparative Analysis of Arterial Models in the Rat
  119, p. E809 - E817 2018
• World neurosurgery
  Tayebi Meybodi Ali, etal Comparative Analysis of Orbitozygomatic and Subtemporal Approaches to the Basilar Apex: A Cadaveric Study
  119, p. e607 - e616 2018
• World neurosurgery
  Tayebi Meybodi Ali, etal Anterior Greater Auricular Point: Novel Anatomic Landmark to Facilitate Harvesting of the Greater Auricular Nerve
  119, p. e64 - e70 2018
• World Neurosurgery
  Cavallo Claudio, etal Pulmonary Complications After Spontaneous Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Experience from Barrow Neurological Institute
  119, p. e366 - e373 2018
• World Neurosurgery
  Bozkurt Baran, etal Quantitative Anatomic Analysis of the Transcallosal-Transchoroidal Approach and the Transcallosal-Subchoroidal Approach to the Floor of the Third Ventricle: An Anatomic Study
  118, p. 219 - 229 2018
• Neurosurgery
  Belykh Evgenii, etal 312 Intraoperative Imaging of Cerebral Vasculature and Blood Flow Using Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy: New Perspectives in Precise Real-Time Brain Fluorescence Microimaging
  65:CN_suppl_1, p. 126 - 127 2018
• Cureus
  Belykh Evgenii G, etal Laboratory Evaluation of a Robotic Operative Microscope - Visualization Platform for Neurosurgery, p. e3072 - e3072 2018
• World neurosurgery
  Meybodi Ali Tayebi, etal Technical Nuances of Exposing Rat Common Carotid Arteries for Practicing Microsurgical Anastomosis
  115, p. E305 - E311 2018
• Journal of neurosurgery. Spine
  Meybodi Ali Tayebi, etal The subatlantic triangle: gateway to early localization of the atlantoaxial vertebral artery
  29:1, p. 18 - 27 2018