Lacey Martin Carter, MD

Description

Lacey Carter, MD, is a fellowship-trained pediatric neurosurgeon specializing in hydrocephalus, spina bifida, craniosynostosis, Chiari malformations, pediatric neurotrauma, and other congenital abnormalities of the brain and spinal cord. Dr. Carter serves as the division chief of pediatric neurosurgery at Prisma Health in the Upstate. Originally from Hickory, North Carolina, she attended N.C. State University in Raleigh, earning a bachelor’s degree with a major in human biology before obtaining her medical degree at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, where she was elected into the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honors Medical Society. She then completed her neurosurgery residency at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City before returning to the Southeast to finish her training at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, with a pediatric neurosurgery fellowship. Dr. Carter strives to help her patients get back to their regular activities as quickly and safely as possible. In her free time, she likes to build Legos, play video games, watch college football, and spend time around Greenville with her husband and son.

Keywords central nervous system infection, central nervous system tumors, germinoma, dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor, neural tube defects, laminoplasty, laminectomy, ependymoma, diastematomyelia, intraventricular tumor, vein of galen malformation, neuromuscular scoliosis, vertebral epiphysitis, ventriculostomy, ventriculocisternostomy, ventriculo peritoneal shunt, ventricular shunt, vascular malformations of the spine, vascular malformations of the brain, vagal stimulation, vagal nerve stimulator, tuberous sclerosis, tethered spinal cord syndrome, temporal tumor, tarlov cyst, syringomyelia, syringobulbia, surgical treatment of myelopathy, surgery for spasticity, subpial transection, subdural hemorrhage, subdural hematoma, subarachnoid hemorrhage, stereotactic brain biopsy, standard transsphenoidal approach, spongioblastoma, spondylosis, spine tumor, spinal stenosis, spinal schwannoma, meningioma of the spine, spine fracture, spinal dural graft, spinal cord stimulator, spinal cord diseases, spinal cord compression, spinal cord anomalies, spinal abscess, spina bifida, skull fracture, skull base tumor, sciatica, resection of cerebral arteriovenous malformation (avm), repair of brain, acoustic neuroma removal, rathke cleft cysts, radiculopathy, prolactinoma, pituitary tumor, pituitary adenoma, pineoblastoma, pineal tumor, pilocytic astrocytoma, periventricular mass, paraneoplastic polyneuropathy, paraganglioma, orbital tumors, optic nerve sheath meningioma, optic nerve glioma, open biopsy of brain, oligodendroglioma, olfactory neuroblastoma, normal pressure hydrocephalus, neuronal glial tumors, neurofibrosarcoma, neurofibromatosis type 2, neurofibromatosis type 1, neurofibromatosis, neuroendoscopy, neuroendocrine tumors, neuroectodermal tumor, neoplasm of brain stem, needle biopsy of cerebral meninges, needle biopsy of brain, cervical spine mass, cervical spine injury, cervical spine fracture, myelopathy surgery, myelopathy, myelomeningocele, microsurgery, metastatic brain cancer, meningocele, meningioma, medulloepithelioma, medulloblastoma, malignant neoplasm of the spinal cord, malignant neoplasm of frontal lobe, malignant neoplasm of brain stem, malignant neoplasm of cerebellum.