Thomas Byrne, M.D. Clinical Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Internal Medicine Yale University School of Medicine P.O. Box 208082 New Haven, CT 06520-8082 Thomas.Byrne@yale.edu

Contact Info

Alienne Morrione 203-785-7284
Betsy D'Andrea 203-737-1671
Fax: 203-737-2591

Biosketch

Dr. Byrne holds the rank of Clinical Professor of Neurology and Internal Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine and is Assistant Chief of the Department of Neurology at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Dr. Byrne did his neuro-oncology fellowship at Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center where he was American Association of Brain Tumor Research Fellow. His interests include mechanisms of invasion of gliomas and the neurological complications of systemic cancer. He sees patients with primary brain tumors and neurological complications of systemic cancer. Among those with systemic cancer, he sees patients with metastatic disease to the brain and spine and non-metastatic disease such as paraneoplastic syndromes.

Selected Peer-reviewed Publications

Byrne, TN, Benzel, E and Waxman, SG: Diseases of The Spine and Spinal Cord. Oxford University Press, New York, 2000.

Byrne, TN: Neurologic Emergencies. In, Expert Consultation in Breast Cancer. Hait. WN, August,D and Haffty, BG (Eds). Marcel Decker, New York, 1999.

Byrne, TN, Mason, WP, Dalmau, J and Posner, JP: Tumor indolence and spontaneous neurologic improvement in anti-Hu associated encephalomyelitis. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatr 62:276-278, 1997.

Byrne, TN: Management of brain and spinal cord metastases. In, Ernstoff, M, Heaney, JA and Peschel, RE (Eds) The Urologic Cancer Textbook. Norton Medical Books, New York. 1997.

Byrne, TN: Spinal Cord Compression. In Cancer of The Nervous System, Black, Peter McL.and Loeffler, Jay S (Eds). pp. 664-673. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Cambridge, 1997.

Piepmeier, JM, Christopher, S, Spencer, D, Byrne, TN et al: Variations in the natural history and survival of patients with supratentorial low-grade astrocytomas. Neurosurgery 38:872-879, 1996.

Byrne, TN, Piepmeier, JM and Yoshida, D: Imaging and Clinical Features of Gliomas. In, Tindall, GT, Cooper, PR and Barrow, DL (Eds.) The Practice of Neurosurgery. pp. 637-648, William and Wilkins, Baltimore, 1996.

Byrne, TN: Spinal Metastases. In, Wiley, R (ed.) Handbook of Neuro-Oncology, pp. 23-44. Marcel Dekker, Inc. New York, 1994.

Byrne, TN: Imaging of Gliomas. Seminars in Oncology 21:162-171, 1994.

Tyler, JL and Byrne, TN: Neoplastic Disorders. In, Mazziotta, JC and Gilman, S (Eds), Clinical Brain Imaging, pp.166-216, F.A. Davis Co., Philadelphia, 1992.

Byrne, TN: Metastatic Epidural Spinal Cord Compression: Diagnosis and Treatment (Invited Review Article). New Engl J Med 327:614-619, 1992.

Bleyer, W.A. and Byrne, TN: Leptomeningeal cancer in leukemia and solid tumors. Current Problems in Cancer 12:181-238, 1988.

Hait, WN, Byrne, TN, Piepmeier, JM, et al: Clinical and laboratory studies on the effect of calmodulin inhibitors with bleomycin on the growth of high-grade gliomas. Cancer Research 50:6636-6640, 1990.

Byrne, TN, Cascino, T.L., and Posner, J.B.: Brain metastasis from melanoma. J Neuro-Oncology 1:313-317, 1983.

Cascino, T.L., Byrne, TN, Deck, M.D., Posner, J.B.: Intra-arterial BCNU in the treatment of brain tumors. J Neuro-Oncology 1:211-218, 1983.

Shapiro, W.R. and Byrne, TN: Chemotherapy of Brain Tumors - Basic Concepts. In, Walker, M.D. (Editor), Oncology of the Nervous System, pp, 65-100. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Amsterdam, 1983.