Zuoying Armed Forces General Hospital

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Meng-Chi Lin

Director of Neurosurgery

Education

• Graduated from the Department of Medicine, National Defense Medical College
• Specialist in surgery, Republic of China
• Neurosurgeon, Republic of China
• Hyperbaric oxygen specialist in the Republic of China
• Pain medicine specialist in the Republic of China
• Consulting Physician No. 11100924
• Lecturer appointed by the Ministry of Education

Experience

• Taitung Zhi Aviation Base Aviation Medical Center
• Resident Physician, Department of Neurosurgery, Tri-Service General Hospital
• Chief Physician, Department of Neurosurgery, Tri-Service General Hospital
• Chief Physician of the Department of Surgery, Zuoying General Hospital of the Nationalist Army

Specialty

• Nerve pain diagnosis and treatment, shoulder and neck pain, lower back pain treatment, pain, soreness, numbness , numbness in hands and feet, numbness, pain, weakness, and muscle atrophy in fingers
• Spinal pain treatment, minimally invasive spinal surgery, spinal cord injury surgery and treatment, spinal trauma
• Spinal diseases: minimally invasive surgery for cervical and lumbar disc herniation , nerve compression caused by bone spurs, cervical nerve compression, sciatica, spondylolisthesis or fracture
• Degenerative spinal disease surgery (artificial disc , spinal screw/stent implantation)
• Vertebral compression fractures (bone cement grouting treatment, spinal jack)
• Osteoporosis
• Head injury surgery and treatment, brain tumor surgery and treatment, cerebrovascular disease, head trauma (concussion, cerebral contusion, various intracranial hemorrhages), hydrocephalus surgery (drainage tube placement)
• Hyperbaric oxygen neurotherapy
• High-frequency thermocoagulation surgery of the spine
• Autonomic nervous system (hyperhidrosis of hands)
• Peripheral nervous system: carpal tunnel syndrome (median nerve palsy ), cubital tunnel syndrome (ulnar nerve palsy )

Academic Works

1. PTGFRN Overexpression Predicts Advanced WHO grades and Adverse Prognosis in Human Glioma tissue. Chinese Journal of physiology:2022 Apr;65(2)93-102
2. Preoperative grading of intracranial meningioma by magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS). LoS One. 2018 Nov 19;13(11)
3. Dose Comparison Using Thermoluminescent Dosimeters During Multislice Computed Tomography With Different Parameters for Simulated Spine Tumor Examination. Health Physics. 2018 Aug;115(2):275-280
4. The Efficacy of Therapeutic Plasma Exchange in Antiphospholipid Antibody- positive Patients With Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage and High D-dimer Levels. The Neurologist. 2018 Jan ;23 (1):7-11.
5. Fatal antiphospholipid syndrome following endoscopic transnasal-transsphenoidal surgery for a pituitary tumor: A case report . Medicine (Baltimore). 2017 Jan;96(1):e5774
6. Quantitative analysis of anatomical relationship between cavernous segment internal carotid artery and pituitary macroadenoma . Medicine (Baltimore). 2016 Oct;95(41):e5027
7. Accuracy of Spinal Screw Fixation Using Intraoperative O-arm Navigation: Consecutive Series of 118 Screws . Journal of Medical Sciences. 2016 ;36 (1):6?]13
8. Tissue Donation after Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment as an Advanced Care Plan is One of the Options in End-of-Life Care. Journal of Palliative Care and Medicine Neurologist. 2016, 6:5
9. A Clinical Pitfall: Optimal Management of Single Dural-based Metastatic Carcinoma of the Breast Mimicking Meningioma. The Neurologist. 2015 Nov ;20 (5):93-5
   10.Image analysis of open-door laminoplasty for cervical spondylotic myelopathy: Comparing the influence of cord morphology and spine alignment. Clin Neurol Neurosurg . 2015 Oct ;137:72 -8.