Stepan Capek, MD
Education
Charles University in Prague – 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Czech Republic
Doctor of Medicine, 2013
Ph.D. Candidate in Neuroscience, Thesis: “Perineural tumor spread in pelvic cancer”, 2013-Present
Email: sc8vd@virginia.edu
Honors/Awards:
- David Kline Peripheral Nerve Research Award for: “MR Elastography of peripheral nerves: a feasibility study” awarded by AANS/CNS Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves
- 2007 – 2012 Merit scholarship for the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th year of the medical school
- 2012 Sophia Foundation Scholarship
- 2010 Erasmus Scholarship
- 2009 – 2013 Academic Senate of Charles University in Prague – 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Czech Rep.
- Member (2009-11) and Chairperson (2011-13) of the Student Chamber
Publications
The spectrum of brachial plexopathy from perineural spread of breast cancer
J Neurosurg. 2022 Feb 25:1-10. doi: 10.3171/2021.12.JNS211882. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTOBJECTIVE: Perineural spread of breast cancer to the brachial plexus can lead to pain, sensory alterations, and upper-extremity weakness. Although…
J Clin Neurosci. 2020 Sep;79:129-132. doi: 10.1016/j.jocn.2020.04.125. Epub 2020 Aug 5.ABSTRACTIn the last forty years, the field of medicine has experienced dramatic shifts in technology-enhanced surgical procedures - from its…
Neurosurg Focus. 2020 Jul;49(1):E3. doi: 10.3171/2020.4.FOCUS20186.ABSTRACTOBJECTIVE: The goal of this study was to systematically review the feasibility and safety of minimally invasive neurovascular approaches to brain-machine interfaces (BMIs).METHODS: A systematic…
World Neurosurg. 2020 Sep;141:e490-e497. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.05.228. Epub 2020 May 31.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The diagnosis of peripheral neurolymphomatosis (NL) is difficult and often delayed, because patients can have isolated, nonspecific nerve symptoms. Magnetic…
Compressive epidural collection as an unusual complication of FESS for a pediatric mycetoma
Childs Nerv Syst. 2021 Jan;37(1):311-314. doi: 10.1007/s00381-020-04651-1. Epub 2020 May 15.ABSTRACTFunctional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) is a treatment of choice for fungal sinus ball (mycetoma), which is considered safe with…
World Neurosurg. 2020 Feb;134:423-426. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2019.11.032. Epub 2019 Nov 13.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome (RCVS) is a rare complication after carotid endarterectomy (CEA). Only a limited number of prior cases…
Hemorrhage Risk of Untreated Isolated Cerebral Cavernous Malformations
World Neurosurg. 2019 Nov;131:e557-e561. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2019.07.222. Epub 2019 Aug 7.ABSTRACTOBJECTIVE: Predicting future hemorrhage risk may allow better selection of patients with cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMs) who will likely benefit from…
World Neurosurg. 2018 Oct;118:381-382. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2018.05.206.NO ABSTRACTPMID:30248810 | DOI:10.1016/j.wneu.2018.05.206
Mathematical model of perineural tumor spread: a pilot study
Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2018 Mar;160(3):655-661. doi: 10.1007/s00701-017-3423-6. Epub 2017 Dec 21.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Perineural spread (PNS) of pelvic cancer along the lumbosacral plexus is an emerging explanation for neoplastic lumbosacral plexopathy (nLSP)…
Neurosurgery. 2017 Sep 1;64(CN_suppl_1):52-58. doi: 10.1093/neuros/nyx306.NO ABSTRACTPMID:28899057 | DOI:10.1093/neuros/nyx306
World Neurosurg. 2017 Apr;100:699. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2017.01.021.NO ABSTRACTPMID:28437879 | DOI:10.1016/j.wneu.2017.01.021
Targeted fascicular biopsy of the brachial plexus: rationale and operative technique
Neurosurg Focus. 2017 Mar;42(3):E9. doi: 10.3171/2017.1.FOCUS16404.ABSTRACTOBJECTIVE Nerve biopsy is useful in the management of neuromuscular disorders and is commonly performed in distal, noncritical cutaneous nerves. In general, these procedures are…
Clin Anat. 2016 Sep;29(6):800-3. doi: 10.1002/ca.22708. Epub 2016 Mar 24.NO ABSTRACTPMID:26940157 | DOI:10.1002/ca.22708
World Neurosurg. 2016 May;89:728.e11-7. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2016.01.060. Epub 2016 Feb 2.ABSTRACTINTRODUCTION: Perineural spread (PNS) is an unusual mechanism of tumor extension and has been typically reported in squamous cell carcinoma, adenocystic…
Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2016 Mar;158(3):507-12; discussion 512. doi: 10.1007/s00701-015-2683-2. Epub 2016 Jan 7.ABSTRACTEndometriosis of the nerve often remains an elusive diagnosis. We report the first case of intraneural lumbosacral plexus…
Neurosurg Focus. 2015 Sep;39(3):E14. doi: 10.3171/2015.7.FOCUS15209.ABSTRACTOBJECT Perineural spread along pelvic autonomie nerves has emerged as a logical, anatomical explanation for selected cases of neoplastic lumbosacral plexopathy (LSP) in patients with…
Neurosurg Focus. 2015 Sep;39(3):E12. doi: 10.3171/2015.6.FOCUS15213.ABSTRACTOBJECT Nerve biopsy is typically performed in distal, noncritical sensory nerves without using imaging to target the more involved regions. The yield of these procedures…
Neurosurg Focus. 2015 Sep;39(3):E15. doi: 10.3171/2015.6.FOCUS15208.ABSTRACTSciatic nerve endometriosis (EM) is a rare presentation of retroperitoneal EM. The authors present 2 cases of catamenial sciatica diagnosed as sciatic nerve EM. They…
Neural involvement in endometriosis: Review of anatomic distribution and mechanisms
Clin Anat. 2015 Nov;28(8):1029-38. doi: 10.1002/ca.22617. Epub 2015 Sep 9.ABSTRACTEndometriosis (EM) is an infrequent cause of peripheral neuropathy, most commonly sciatic. Perineural spread has recently been introduced as an alternate…
Clin Anat. 2015 Oct;28(7):925-30. doi: 10.1002/ca.22589. Epub 2015 Jul 16.ABSTRACTBased on our experience in treating peripheral non-neural sheath derived pathology, we have identified a novel pattern of lesion progression along…
Skeletal Radiol. 2015 Jul;44(7):1001-9. doi: 10.1007/s00256-015-2151-3. Epub 2015 Apr 29.ABSTRACTOBJECTIVE: In neurolymphomatosis (NL), the affected nerves are typically described to be enlarged and hyperintense on T2W MR sequences and to…
Skeletal Radiol. 2015 Sep;44(9):1365-70. doi: 10.1007/s00256-015-2143-3. Epub 2015 Apr 12.ABSTRACTWe propose that pelvic malignancies can spread to bone and cause bony metastases using nerves as conduits. We reviewed two cases…
J Neurosurg. 2015 Jun;122(6):1433-7. doi: 10.3171/2014.12.JNS14798. Epub 2015 Feb 6.ABSTRACTThe authors describe the case of an intraneural ganglion cyst involving a cranial nerve (V3), which was found to have a…
J Neurosurg. 2015 Apr;122(4):778-83. doi: 10.3171/2014.12.JNS141339. Epub 2015 Feb 6.ABSTRACTPerineural tumor spread in prostate cancer is emerging as a mechanism to explain select cases of neurological dysfunction and as a…
Perineural tumor spread to the muscle: An alternative for muscle metastasis?
Clin Anat. 2015 Jul;28(5):560-2. doi: 10.1002/ca.22485. Epub 2014 Dec 15.NO ABSTRACTPMID:25511297 | DOI:10.1002/ca.22485Perineural spread of squamous cell carcinoma: from skin to skin through the brachial plexus
Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2015 Jan;128:90-3. doi: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2014.11.004. Epub 2014 Nov 15.NO ABSTRACTPMID:25462103 | DOI:10.1016/j.clineuro.2014.11.004
Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2015 Jan;157(1):153. doi: 10.1007/s00701-014-2285-4.NO ABSTRACTPMID:25413165 | DOI:10.1007/s00701-014-2285-4
Perineural tumor spread of bladder cancer causing lumbosacral plexopathy: an anatomic explanation
Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2014 Dec;156(12):2331-6. doi: 10.1007/s00701-014-2257-8. Epub 2014 Oct 22.ABSTRACTWe present two cases of biopsy-proven neoplastic lumbosacral plexopathy from perineural spread of bladder cancer: one patient presented with predominantly…
Clin Anat. 2015 Jan;28(1):136-43. doi: 10.1002/ca.22450. Epub 2014 Aug 5.ABSTRACTSeveral groups have reported cases of rectal cancer with carcinomatous involvement of the lumbosacral plexus and sciatic, obturator, pudendal, or spinal…
Clin Anat. 2015 Jan;28(1):96-100. doi: 10.1002/ca.22427. Epub 2014 Jun 26.ABSTRACTStandard cutaneous innervation maps show strict midline demarcation. Although authors of these maps accept variability of peripheral nerve distribution or occasionally…